CHAPTER 17

Mobile Devices and Apps

How are portable devices like mobile phones and tablet computers being used for entertainment purposes?

What are some of the unique features of mobile devices that make them attractive as platforms for digital storytelling and other forms of entertainment?

What are some of the approaches app developers are using for digital storytelling?

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE TELEPHONE

Just a few short years ago, we used our telephones for just one purpose: to talk with other people. It was a convenient method of verbal communication. But thanks to the development of mobile phones, particularly smart phones, the possibilities for the once strictly utilitarian telephone have expanded exponentially. Smart phones are cell phones ...

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