Critically evaluate Rosenblatt’s transactional model in terms of its applicability to digital and multimodal texts, considering the shifting boundaries between reader, text, and author.
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It is fully incompatible with new media
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Its emphasis on transaction and co-creation anticipates participatory digital literacies but requires expansion for multimodal complexity
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It assumes static text-reader relations
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It denies reader agency in digital contexts