Abstract
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.
Highlights
The objects of analysis in this article are digital picturebooks, which may be called e-picturebooks
The purpose of this article was to introduce a set of topics about a digital equivalent of the picturebook, reframing them by new theoretical perspectives in situated cognitive science
The argument is that, based on its specific features, epicturebook restructures the way in which stories are conceived and understood; and it may involve different cognitive systems operating in reading and understanding tasks in relation to the printed book
Summary
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. Picturebook is a printed narrative artifact consisting of “two levels of communication, the visual and the verbal” — illustration and verbal text (Nikolajeva and Scott, 2001: 1). It is the way the visual and verbal elements relate each other on the medium that will determine its classification as a picturebook. This is how picturebooks work for people to understand their stories
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