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Powieść aplikacja – między wolnym czytaniem a szybkim Internetem
The App Novel: Between Slow Reading and High-Speed Internet

Author(s): Bartosz Lutostański, Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Literature, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, American Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: The Pickle Index; app novel; immersion; social media; transmediality; multimodality; reception studies;

Summary/Abstract: Rembowska-Płuciennik explores a new form of literature to be found online: the use of mobile apps as a carrier for the novel, such as the pioneering artistic endeavour that is the multimedia series The Pickle Index. The project involves print book, amobile app and a version for ebook readers. The construction of the narrative in different parts of this artistic project is examined from a comparative multimedia perspective to demonstrate that the key theme of The Pickle Index is the intentional collision between the readers’ different needs, reading practices and communication habits in the era of multimedia reading.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 53-72
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish