Children's Books

Cesário, Vanessa; Freitas, Paulo; Pimentel, Diana; Nisi, Valentina

doi:10.1145/2930674.2936004

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“…Keywords: interactivity, multimedia, personalised engagement, participatory literacies, materiality, e-books, digital books, apps, early literacy Today's children encounter stories and make meaning of texts in an unprecedented and diverse range of physical, virtual, and hybrid media. Digital books are part of this media landscape, gradually making their way into the hands of increasingly young children worldwide (Cesário, Freitas, Pimentel and Nisi 2016). Digital interactive books, also known as apps, story apps, picturebook apps, enhanced e-books, or simply digital books, are available to download for touchscreens, such as smartphones and tablets.…”

Section: Theorising Materiality In Children's Digital Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising materiality in children’s digital books

Kucirkova

2019

Libri liberi (Online)

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Participatory literacies are new ways of experiencing narratives and of “interpreting, making, sharing and belonging in increasingly globally and digitally mediated cultures” (Wohlwend 2017a: 62). This paper discusses the material features of children’s digital books and the extent to which they support participatory literacies. The material features of digital books are conceptualised in terms of their external and internal properties. Based on a theoretical discussion and empirical observations it is argued that specific internal material properties of children’s digital books, namely their interactivity and multimedia, are uniquely positioned to support participatory literacies and are therefore a site of novelty in children’s experiences of narratives.

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Section: Theorising Materiality In Children's Digital Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%