Book apps for younger children: between a book and a computer game

Abstract

It seems that book apps are something more than a passing craze or a prod­uct, which will leave the media stage during the next few years. They deserve in-depth research reflection based on the understanding that the apps – despite the fact that they share many features with books and games – are a separate media entity, requiring special methods of description and analysis. The passion with which non-adults treat the products of electronic mobile technologies, and the fact, as quoted above, that they become a portal of initiation to literacy, and per­haps even to literary initiations, calls for the attentive studying of the mechanisms of the use of applications. In this context, some researchers write about reading “remixed”, referring to the mosaic-like media structure of book apps (Kasman, Stephens 2012).

English translation: Anna Moroz-Darska

Modernisation of the journal's operations and translation into the English language of articles published in Ars Educandi in 2012-2017 were financed with funds from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a part of the task Science Promotion Activity (pl. DUN).

The task ‘The implementation of the editorial module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe – a system facilitating the editing and management of the academic journal Ars Educandi‘ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘The creation of a modern online version of the academic journal Ars Educandi through the implementation of the publication module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe and the handling of international indexing databases’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘Preparation of the English language version of the last 6 annual issues (2012-2017) of the academic journal Ars Educandi and their publication online’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.