![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by Jenkin’s theories concerning transmedia storytelling, I propose the term “transsensory storytelling” as a means for theorizing the meaning-making possibilities of changing sense ratios when an app’s engagement with touch and sound extends the visuality of a book. Exploring the tension between my own textual analysis and the affective responses reported by youth interpreters and by Goodreads reviewers, I explore how Chopsticks invites readers to enter “the multimodal subjunctive” (Mackey, 2008, 2011), compelling consideration of our senses and emotions in interactive meaning-making processes. ![]() This paper analyzes the possibilities of empathic experience created by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral’s book and iPad app Chopsticks (2012), using as a theoretical framework Marshall McLuhan’s theories concerning “hot” and “cool” media in Understanding Media and the significance of changing “sense ratios” created by the extension of new technologies “into the social world,” as he first posited in The Gutenberg Galaxy. ![]()
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