The 4th Undergraduate Academic Conference on Humanities

We have received abstract submission from students of 20 different institutions from Greater China, and 48 papers have been selected and grouped into 13 discussion panels. We are honored to have Dr Anna Tso, Vice President of the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology, as the keynote speaker for the Conference, and scholars from various Hong Kong institutions as our judge and panel chairs. You are welcome to register online as an audience for UAC!

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Below are the details of the keynote speech:

Topic: Digital Impacts on Children’s Literature
Date: 12 June 2020 (Friday)
Time: 09:30-11:00
Format: Online Video Conference (via Zoom)
Language: English
Speaker: Dr Anna Tso (Vice President, Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology)

Abstract:
Traditionally, children’s literature refers to reading materials such as storybooks, nursery rhymes, word play, riddles, picture books which have been chosen by adults and classified as suitable for young readers. With the advancement of technologies, traditional barriers disappear. A children's digital media culture is born, and new forms of children’s literature have emerged. Classic children’s books have been adapted and/or transformed into multimodal texts such as animations, video games, apps in smartphones, digital poetry, audio and visual versions of the original text, etc. In addition, it is found that digital texts have influenced printed children’s texts too, in particular in the page design and format. In this talk, the audience will be invited to browse through some interesting children’s texts popular among children in the digital age. The talk will invite the audience to experience the difference between reading a print-based version and watching a CGI animated version of The Hobbit.