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The Playful Affordances of Picture Book Apps for Children
2021
The tradition of children’s literature has evolved side by side with the market of children’s entertainment, games, and toys. The selection of contemporary print products includes a wide variety of materially or technologically enhanced picture books. This background is rarely considered in the examination of children’s book applications that have attracted scholarly interest after the arrival of smartphones and tablets during the early 2010s.The relationship between picture book apps, mobile games, and digital playthings requires further examination that considers the specific affordances of the mobile platform. Leaning on five case studies, this article examines how picture book apps affo…
Kryzys w świecie, kryzys w Kościele
2020
The current situation in the world shows symptoms of an acute crisis of human identity and activity developing in many spheres: ecology, economy, education, social life, or the Church. The individual chapters of the present volume deal with these topics. In Chapter 1 (A crisis in the Bible), the Rev. Andrzej Demitrów analyzes a particular crisis situation between God and man as told by the Bible: the fall of man in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2–3), “the original sin”, branded mankind with evil tendencies. The second chapter (A crisis in the dissemination and justification of the Catholic morality) contributed by the Rev. Janusz Podzielny, presents a reflection on the traditional understanding …
Interpretation, Negotiation, Play
2022
Augmented reality (AR) picturebooks combine printed children's literature with augmented reality. This study examines the shared reading of the Finnish AR picturebook Mur, eli karhu (2016) by Kaisa Happonen and Anne Vasko. The main aim of the study is to explore the playful reading experience of three Finnish families with children between the ages of 4 and 6. Three main categories of engagement with the book are discussed in the article: interpretation, negotiation, and play. The findings of the study suggest that children are skilled users of mobile digital media but may not understand the content of AR without parental mediation. In addition, parents and educators are required to have su…