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Blind readers and comics: reflecting on comics' storytelling from a different perspective
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2334-6245
2019 (English)Other (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This paper discusses comics for the Blind, based on the example of life by Philipp Meyer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial storytelling that is accessible for blind readers. Special attention is given to the elements of comics' narratives and the technical background of tactile text and image representation. Due to the process of giving information in tactile comics, these present an extreme challenge for readers who have been born blind, while readers that have grown blind later in life seem able to refer the elements of spatially dispersed information (images) to their memory of visual information.

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Comics Forum , 2019. no August 2019
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Comics Forum
Keywords [en]
Braille, tactile images, tactile comics, visual information, pictorial information, blind readers, comics for the blind, blind comics readers, media for blind users, braille dimensions, image and text, sequential pictorial storytelling
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Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-2078Local ID: 29624OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-2078DiVA, id: diva2:1398820
Available from: 2020-02-27 Created: 2020-02-27 Last updated: 2022-03-30Bibliographically approved

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