Digital Magazine for Children

Digital magazines which designed for children are now welcomed by not just the parent, but also the pediatricians because of its special feature that grabbed the children’s attention. The layout and the presentation of the digital magazines are well designed to adapt the children’s interests by presenting the colorful graphics, funny pictures and interesting videos. Parents can give their children the digital magazine to read on Ipad instead of playing the video games which contain less educational knowledge.

The examples of the children digital magazine application are the Timbuktu and the KidsMag. KidsMag application offers interactive, informative and interesting educational games with the attention grabbing audio to children for them to learn while playing.

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However, there are difficulties in translating the print magazine into the digital magazine but still; companies are now trying hard to deal with this problem.

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The change of the genre from the print based children magazine to the digital magazine is actually a good changing which brings lots of effectiveness to the readers. Children who born and grow in this contemporary world are filled with modern technologies in their daily life. Therefore, the conventional media will seem to lose their function to disseminate knowledge to them. 

In fact, by embedding the information into a digital device is more likely to attract their attention and it is more effective to spread the knowledge to them with the interesting screen.

According to Walsh (2006), the affordances of the assorted genres holding its own specific meaning and purpose, meaning that different modes of the presentation of the information targeted different types of audiences as well as providing various circumstances and feelings to the audiences while reading. For instances, a printed novel book with just words offers reader a wider imagination spaces to visualise the content of the book. However, a webpage on the internet gives audiences a more interactive way by leaving comment and others.

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The video shows the demonstration of using the digital magazine on Iphone

Reference

Walsh, M. 2006,” ‘Textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37.