HyperStudio Talk
Harlequin Leaps the Digital Divide:
Flap books and multi-modal engagement
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
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Friday, December 5, 2008
noon - 2 pm
Lecture and lunch
Room 14E-310
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Interactive design, multi-modal engagement, participatory learning, transmedia narration -- 18th-century flap books have it all! As part of HyperStudio's ongoing lunch discussion series, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh will trace the links between early interactive books and "new" digital media, offering new insight into media history and contemporary media culture.
In flap books, the text is a participatory one: the narrator addresses the reader directly and specifies when to turn the flaps; the reader propels the action by turning the flaps; and the reader is invited to compare his or her experience of the narrative with that of the narrator.
In terms of form and design, flap books are examples of interactive media on paper platforms, requiring complex engagement on the part of the reader/viewer/player. Understanding the texts necessitates the attainment of multiple "literacies."
About the speaker:
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Pennsylvania State University
Associate professor of Education, Language, and Literacy Education at Penn State, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh's research interests include historical children's literature and culture, children's and youth popular culture, comparative media literacy and girlhood studies. A literary historian working with theoretical lenses drawn from cultural studies, children's studies, and feminist studies, she has co-edited and co-authored several books. Her most recent book is Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007). She is also a founding editor of new journal called Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
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