Storytelling in the Digital World
Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contributors’ online ethnographies investigate a wide range of themes including the nature of processes of transformation and recontextualization of offline events into digital narratives; the effects of digital anonymity and pseudonymity on narrative practices; the strategies through which virtual communities discursively work together to solidify and negotiate their sociocultural identities; the tensions between the affordances that characterize different online media and the communicative needs of users; the structures and modes in which virtual users construct and enact participatory practices in these environments; and the significance of different spatiotemporal dimensions in the encoding, sharing and appreciation of stories. More generally, the volume engages with some of the theoretical and methodological challenges that the growing presence of digital technologies and media poses to narrative analysis.
Originally published as special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017)
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Storytelling in the digital worldAnna De Fina and Sabina Perrino | pp. 1–8
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“My life has changed forever!”: Narrative identities in parodies of Amazon reviewsCamilla Vásquez | pp. 9–26
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Online retellings and the viral transformation of a Twitter breakup storyAnna De Fina and Brittany Toscano Gore | pp. 27–52
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Recontextualizing racialized stories on YouTubeSabina Perrino | pp. 53–77
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“We are going to our Portuguese homeland!”: French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to PortugalIsabelle Simões Marques and Michèle Koven | pp. 79–103
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Sharing the moment as small stories: The interplay between practices & affordances in the social media-curation of livesAlexandra Georgakopoulou | pp. 105–127
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Index | pp. 129–131
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