The Future of Children’s Picture Books
The famous children’s book, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, has been turned into an iPad application. This application is not just about flipping web pages, imitating the functions of a conventional print book, but about providing an additional “role” for readers to control certain animations of characters in the book. I feel this “Alice … Read more
In a World of Multimodality
Henry Jenkins, a professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies (NML), recently blogged about his interview with a Spanish educational researcher Pilar Lacasa about the relationships between old and new media. Related to an E-book Research Project that my colleague … Read more
Two Recent Research Articles in Social Media
Leung, Louis. (2009). User-generated content on the internet: an examination of gratifications, civic engagement and psychological empowerment. New Media Society, 11(8), 1327-1347. Leung’s study examines the motives of people who generate content in popular Web 2.0 sites such as Blogger, Live Spaces, Wikipedia, and YouTube. Leung summarizes that people’s content generating activities happen because of … Read more
E-book Readers: Kindle vs. Nook
A Video Review from The Wall Street Journal: Kindle vs. Nook Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. Recently, he gave a video review of Nook, a newly released e-book reader by Barnes & Noble. In the … Read more
We will be on Stage!
I used ComicLife to add effects to this little “comic book” I created last year. I loved the whole trial process!
E-books and the Reading Debate
Check out this great NY Times piece which gives voice to several sides of the debate around reading and the influences of e-books: Right now, networked digital media do a poor job of balancing focal and peripheral attention. We swing between two kinds of bad reading. We suffer tunnel vision, as when reading a single … Read more
