Ruth Page

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Page plays a role.

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This paper sets out a new, multimodal account (both visual and verbal analysis) of how self-denigration is conveyed through ‘ugly selfies’ as posted to the photo-sharing site Instagram. Drawing on 226 Instagram posts categorised by the poster themselves with the hashtag #uglyselfie, the visual… read more
Page, Ruth, Richard Harper and Maximiliane Frobenius 2013 From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updatesNarrative Inquiry 23:1, pp. 192–213 | Article
This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the… read more
The relationship between emergent narrative skills, gender and ethnicity continues to be an important area of debate, with significant socio-political consequences. This paper explores the ways in which these variables intersect in a cross-cultural, longitudinal study of children’s storytelling,… read more