Children’s Picturebook Goes Digital: Implications on Cognition
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-2_9Keywords:
picturebook, book-app, storytelling, distributed cognition, cognitive artifactsAbstract
The objects of analysis in this article are digital picturebooks, which may be called e-picturebooks. This research contributes to a definition of e-picturebook as a distinct storytelling experience from printed picturebook, introducing distributed cognition as a new theoretical perspective for the analysis of the phenomenon. This perspective emphasizes cognitive systems related to specific features of this category of digital book. In this sense, picturebook and e-picturebook are defined as cognitive artifacts that constrain storytelling tasks very differently from each other, not only because of their constitutive features but also because of the cognitive systems involved in the understanding of stories in each medium.
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NORMAN, Donald A. (1993). Things that Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. New York: Basic Books.
PINTO, Ana Lúcia, Nelson Zagalo, and Eduarda Coquet (2012). "From a Click to a Gesture: A Contribution to Defining the Concept of Children’s e-Picturebooks." 2nd International Conference Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Infant and Primary Education: Creative Processes and Childhood-Oriented Cultural Discourses. Eds. Helena Barbosa and Joana Quental. Aveiro, Portugal. 223-228.
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RYAN, Marie-Laure (2015). Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
SARGEANT, Betty (2013). "Interactive Storytelling: How Picture Book Conventions Inform Multimedia Book App Narratives." Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems 13.3: 29-35.
SWELLER, John (2005). "Implications of Cognitive Load Theory for Multimedia Learning." The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. Ed. Richard E. Mayer. New York: Cambridge University Press. 19-30.
TAKACS, Zsofia K., and Adriana G. Bus (2016). "Benefits of Motion in Animated Storybooks for Children’s Visual Attention and Story Comprehension: An Eye-Tracking Study." Frontiers in Psychology 7, Oc-tober 2016: 1-12.
TAKACS, Zsofia K., Elise K. Swart, and Adriana G. Bus (2015). "Benefits and Pitfalls of Multimedia and Interactive Features in Technology-Enhanced Storybooks: A Meta-Analysis." Review of Educational Research 85.4: 698-739.
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2018-08-10
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Estefani, Thales, and João Queiroz. 2018. “Children’s Picturebook Goes Digital: Implications on Cognition”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 6 (2):115-27. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-2_9.
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