Impact of some transmedia narratives on children's thinking process

Abstract

A case study concerning the impact of children stories and other narrative formats in processes of psychic structuring produces exceeding results, unforeseen by the objectives set. These results lead to question the use of certain transmedia narratives and their impact in children's thinking. The questions and hypothesis are extracted from the narrative product in one of the cases, from the work carried out with children aged 6-10 at school. During the first year, their inclusion in a narrative workshop group dynamics channels and updates children's creative potentiality, leading to reflexive and imaginative processes. Two years later, during an individual school accompaniment, it becomes possible to analyze the negative impact of certain transmedia products that plug their inventive capacity. Passages from the series Dragon Ball are extracted to illustrate the foregoing assertion.