Storytelling in the Digital World

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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) Storytelling in the Digital World Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents Introduction: Storytelling in the digital world References “My life has changed forever!”: Narrative identities in parodies of Amazon reviews Introduction Identities online “False” identities Parody Parodies of Amazon reviews Methods Findings Steering Wheel Work Tray Banana Slicer Tuscan Milk Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt BIC Cristal for Her Ball Pen Discussion and conclusions References Online retellings and the viral transformation of a Twitter breakup story Introduction Theoretical-methodological framework Retellings and resemiotization Data and sources Analysis Thematic focus Use of semiotic resources Participation frameworks Authorial roles Audience participation Analysis of comments Conclusions References Recontextualizing racialized stories on YouTube Introduction Recontextualizing racialized stories on YouTube: Stancetaking and scaling Italy’s Lega Nord (‘Northern League’): Politics and migration Racializing joking remarks on YouTube Conclusion Acknowledgments References Transcription conventions “We are going to our Portuguese homeland!”: French Luso-descendants’ diasporic Facebook conarrations of vacation return trips to Portugal Interactional approaches to narrative as social practice Narrating nationalism Narrating the ethnonational we’s on Facebook The Portuguese diaspora in France, offline and online Diasporic Facebook group: Tu sais que tu viens du Portugal Quand / You know you come from Portugal when Diasporic Facebook group: Tu sais que tu viens du Portugal Quand / You know you come from Portugal when Posting about vacation trips to Portugal Creating collectivities and simultaneities Anticipating departure Simultaneity Narrating shared Return to France Conclusion Acknowledgements References Sharing the moment as small stories: The interplay between practices & affordances in the social media-curation of lives Introduction Small stories for a narrative analysis of sharing the moment Data and methods: Sharing the moment on social media Facebook data: Status updates & selfies Paratexts Analysis: Taking a narrative stance as a systematic practice for sharing the moment Analysis: Taking a narrative stance as a systematic practice for sharing the moment Evolving affordances for taking a narrative stance Pre-selection for story “ingredients” Visual narrative stancetaking Shared selfies, knowing friends and co-narration Taking a narrative stance and story-linking Discussion: Taking a narrative stance in the context of designing ‘Stories’ Concluding reflections: The normativity of sharing lives-in-the-moment References Index