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Strip u svetlu digitalizacije
Comics from the Digitalization Perspective

Author(s): Ana Marija Dunjić
Subject(s): Media studies, Pragmatics, Social development, Philology
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: comics; media; digital comics; digitalisation; computer; technology; language; evolution;

Summary/Abstract: Comics as mass communication media has been developing from its beginnings and following the way of technological development. At first it was just a mean of increasing profit for local newspaper, then it reached its golden era with high quality albums until a digital comic arrived. With creation of digital comics, a new era in history of comics begins. Digital comics are no longer handmade, but using computers. It is distributed and read by computers and Internet. This new comics have its own language, a syntax of combined 1 and 0, and the system is what makes it the comic that we are used to: a picture on the screen, with its own elements we can understand.

  • Issue Year: 4/2009
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 99-114
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian