How to download an interactive e-book/app

Andrade, P. (2020). Poem on the Corona virus using Pessoa Effect: an app and e-book anti-virus. Lisbon: Social Web Lab Publishers

This is an example of an interactive e-book/app, in order to show its usefulness and possibilities. The content has a literary nature, but a sociological e-book/app may use a similar form and structure, which is detailed in page 'Hypermedia Methods'. In fact, the sociological e-book/app Viral Cultural Tourism uses the same interface and media, as well as Sociological Guides may do. For instance, interactive text, images, videos, sounds, links to Google, Wikipedia, readinga nd writing tools, etc. However, their content is different. Among other characteristics, Sociological Guides are more directed to inform citizens, tourists and migrants in what regards urban risks, so they can learn a pratical knowledge on how to live within the urban fabric. Such Guide's content is still a work in progress, specially when they refer to Covid-19, as this pandemic reality is still uncertain and changing rapidly. It will collect statistics,

Abstract

This is not just an app or only an e-book, but a fusion of an app and an e-book, that are mixed and hybridised in their characteristics. Such process produces an innovative original media, named hybrimedia, whose nature is different from the initial originary media's natures. In the present specific hybrimedia work, it is possible to read, comment, dialog and even re-write the contents of an author’s poetry. Thus, the app’s part of this work is named ‘poetry app’ or ‘p-app, as its content is mainly poetry. And the interactive e-book’s part of this work, about the author's poetry, is called ‘poetry e-book’ or ‘po-book’.

Contemporary society is contaminated by Corona vírus, which is building a real viral society. Such new social paradigm includes, among other things: viral economies and ecologies; viral state policies, citizen politics, politicians and powers; and also viral discourses, cultures and arts. In particular, viral sociological poetry is a new poetic genre which is disseminated through digital methods and hybrimedia. E.g. via desktop apps and portable apps, called HRapps, as they use hybrid reality, an aggregation of "real", virtual, augmented and mixed realities. In this p-app hybridized with a po-book, the author includes some images he took while confined at home, Lisbon, the 8 april 2020. They are mostly images obtained via an iPhone from international and Portuguese TV news. This was a sort of sociological and hybrimedia day in this new viral daily life and viral society, that will never be the same again, but maybe more conscious and respectful for the Others lives, that matter.

Viral sociological poetry is an illustration of the Pessoa Effect. This processus is a communication dispositif used on digital social networks. It is defined as a mode of development of the social, literary and artistic personality of an author, in terms of several heteronyms, including digital heteronyms proposed in cyberspace and cybertime. Pessoa effect can be studied from an emerging philosophy, Hybridology, that is to say, a theoretical reflection and practice as regards hybrid entities, which today dominate, or at least predominate, inside our globalized and localized planet. Within such posture, the author includes some videos where animated characteres declame a viral sociological poem, written as soon as 7 mars 2020.

Keywords: p-book; viral society; viral sociological poetry; hybrimedia; HRapp; hybrid reality; Pessoa Effect; digital heteronyms; Hybridology

See more details in its analysis within an ebook chapter, downloadable as a PDF at the University of Minho Repositorium

http://hdl.handle.net/1822/70089

You can also download the actual interactive ebook/app here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oRmfX9rAq7nmc1rm-4Da2y3-5UarQ_N9

IN THE FOLLWING PLATFORMS:

• AN APP/E-BOOK FOR MAC PLATFORM

• AN APP/E-BOOK FOR WINDOWS PLATFORM

• AN INTERACTIVE E-BOOK IN E-PUB FORMAT.

When you click the link shown below, you enter in a Google drive's folder, that contains the app/e-book files for different platforms (Mac, Windows, e-pub):

1. Choose the platform you prefer, by downloading a file or a folder: the Mac file, or the Windows folder, or the e-pub file. This is done via clicking on each file or folder through the mouse right button, and then by choosing the command 'Download'.

2. Go to the 'Downloads' folder in your computer, and move the folder that contains the downloaded files, to your desktop, where you should do the following:

• In the case you selected the 'ForMAC' file: just open it by clicking the mouse's right button and choose 'Open'. In the next window that appears, select 'Open' again.

• If you chose the 'ForWINDOWS' folder:

  • • Open a new folder in the desktop, to include within it the app/e-book, in the next step. Name it ‘Viral Cultural Tourism” or another name.

    • To open the app/e-book, see easy instructions and images in the ‘Read Me First’ Word Document. This file may be downloaded as well in the link shown below.

• If you preferred the 'ForEPUB file' (note that some interactions are not active in this format):

  • • Open the ebook named 'Viral Cultural Tourism' through a epub reader software. E.g. download the open source Calibre reader at: https://calibre-ebook.com

MORE INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE FOUND INSIDE THE APP/E-BOOK ITSELF.