ABSTRACT
Digital technology has been increasingly popular and accessible to a broad section of the global population since the final two decades of the twentieth century. Due to the undeniable facilities offered by this type of technology for the production, distribution and consumption of information, contemporary culture is becoming a “culture encoded in digital form” (Manovich 2001: 70). The role played by communication technologies in all processes of globalization renders them ubiquitous in practically every country in the world. This means that the way in which we relate to cultural products – including literature – that we consume today, whether in Europe, the United States, Brazil or any other country, is indelibly characterized by how these technologies and digital media work, transforming many of our practices previously linked to analog media. Brazilian children’s literary culture is gradually being transformed owing to its increasingly intense relationship with digital technology. The use of the different types of digital technology transforms the way that these works are produced and consumed, in that it fosters the emergence of new literary forms and new reading media. My focus here is on two new types of literary expression directed towards children: digital poems and digital storytelling.
