My newest article, Reading an app: Dimensions of meaning-making in digital literary reading in early childhood, has just been published in a bilingual edition of the journal Perspectiva.
IRSCL Seminar Fictions for Changing Worlds
It is a pleasure to be one of the invited speakers of the Seminar Fictions for Changing Worlds: Research in Literature and Media for Children, organized by the Chilean Centre of Advanced Studies in Social Justice (CJE), The Catholic University of Chile, and the International Research Society in Children's Literature. The seminar will be in … Continue reading IRSCL Seminar Fictions for Changing Worlds
Live session on Digital Children’s Literature
I was invited by NAMME, from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), to do a live session on Digital children's literature and what it can offer to children. The conversation (in Portuguese) can be seen below. https://youtu.be/e5LY8n4HGsw
N. Katherine Hayles Award to Small Screen Fictions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) has an annual award for literary and critical works of electronic literature. This year, the book Small Screen Fictions, organized by Astrid Ensslin, Paweł Frelik, and Lisa Swanstrom, where I published the chapter Children Making Meaning with Story Apps: A 4-Year-Old Transaction with The Monster at the End of This … Continue reading N. Katherine Hayles Award to Small Screen Fictions
Children’s digital literature
In this video, Aline Frederico, from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), discusses empirical methods for researching children’s digital literature and young children’s meaning-making with this literature.
Aline argues for the need to include the reader as an essential aspect of the digital interactive literary texts and presents the methods of data collection (observations, drawings and puppet theater), data analysis (data logging, viewing data, multimodal transcription, thematic coding and thematic networks) and reporting data (multimodal transcription) that she used in her research.
Works cited:
Attride-Stirling, J. (2001). Thematic networks: An analytic tool for qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 1(3), 385- 405. https://doi.org/10.1177/146879410100100307
Bezemer, J. (2014). Multimodal transcription: A case study. In S. Norris & C. D. Maier (Eds.), Interactions, images and texts: A reader in multimodality (pp. 155–170). Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511175.155
Bezemer, J., & Jewitt, C. (2010). Multimodal analysis: Key issues. In L. Litosseliti (Ed.), Research methods…
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Colloquium with NEPCED – Centre of Studies and Research on Digital Written Culture
It is a great pleasure to be invited to hold the II Colloquium with NEPCED - Centre of Studies and Research on Digital Written Culture of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. The group is investigating the intersections between written culture and digital culture and their relationships with … Continue reading Colloquium with NEPCED – Centre of Studies and Research on Digital Written Culture
Multimodality, Transcription and Educational Research: Learning Beyond Verbal Language
My contribution to the Faculty of Education Student Research Association (FERSA) blog.
By Aline Frederico, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
When investigating how learning takes place, observation is a common method, often accompanied by some sort of recording, which is then transcribed. As a result, often the rich and dynamic environment of a classroom, of parents and children reading together, etc., is reduced to a series of verbal entries, a transcript which is then analyzed and coded.
In my doctoral research, I studied 4-year-olds’ meaning-making processes when reading digital literature with their parents where observation was the central method of data collection. So what could I learn about meaning-making (and learning in general) bylooking at these reading events? The answer, I found, can be significantly different depending on the methods employed for recording and analyzing these observations.
Let’s consider three different scenarios of data collection and analysis. In the first, the data is audio-recorded and transcribed, two methods widely practiced in…
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Ongoing publication: The mediation of the digital literary experience
I have recently submitted, in co-authorship with Dr. Elizabeth Cardoso, lecturer at the Catholic University of São Paulo, the article Digital literature in and out of school: The mediation of the literary experience in childhood. The article is to appear at the journal Revista Leitura: teoria e prática [Reading: Theory and Practice], in the special edition … Continue reading Ongoing publication: The mediation of the digital literary experience
Literacy apps
I am the curator of the website Literacy Apps, a database of apps for the early years. Developed by the National Literacy Trust, all apps in website were reviewed by experts to reveal their potential for developing early literacy skills. The framework is based on the work of Natalia Kucirkova on the different facets of engagement when … Continue reading Literacy apps
New publication at Paradoxa: Small Screen Fiction
It is wonderful news that my article "Children Making Meaning with Literary Apps: A 4-year-old child’s transaction with The Monster at the End of This Book" has been published at edition 29 of Paradoxa, a special on Small Screen fiction edited by Astrid Ensslin, Lisa Swanstrom, Paweł Frelik. Download the pre-proof version of the article. The … Continue reading New publication at Paradoxa: Small Screen Fiction
Aline Frederico 