Ways to get lost in the woods: Little Red Riding Hood and the narrative and cognitive experiences in apps

Authors

  • Thales Estefani Universidade de Coimbra. Centro de Literatura Portuguesa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2019.163270

Keywords:

Little Red Riding Hood, Literary app, Narrative, Interface, Cognition

Abstract

From a search of the Google Play catalog, five exemplary apps that tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood are determined. These applications are analyzed according to their semiotic characteristics, interaction strategies and narrative structures. The purpose of the analysis is to demonstrate, from the theories of embodied and distributed cognition, how the formal materiality of such applications can result in unique narrative experiences by forming different cognitive systems and greatly broadening the storytelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Author Biography

  • Thales Estefani, Universidade de Coimbra. Centro de Literatura Portuguesa

    Doutorando do Programa de Doutoramento em Estudos Avançados em Materialidades da Literatura (bolsista da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal); investigador associado ao Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. E-mail: thales.chaun@gmail.com

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Published

2019-12-17

How to Cite

ESTEFANI, Thales. Ways to get lost in the woods: Little Red Riding Hood and the narrative and cognitive experiences in apps. Literartes, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 1, n. 11, p. 89–111, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9826.literartes.2019.163270. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/literartes/article/view/163270.. Acesso em: 26 jun. 2024.