Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media
Cambridge University Press, 1/25/2018
EAN 9781107139916, ISBN10: 1107139910
Hardcover, 253 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Stories are shared by millions of people online every day. They post and re-post interactions as they re-tell and respond to large-scale mediated events. These stories are important as they can bring people together, or polarise them in opposing groups. Narratives Online explores this new genre - the shared story - and uses carefully chosen case-studies to illustrate the complex processes of sharing as they are shaped by four international social media contexts: Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Building on discourse analytic research, Ruth Page develops a new framework - 'Mediated Narrative Analysis' - to address the large scale, multimodal nature of online narratives, helping researchers interpret the micro- and macro-level politics that are played out in computer-mediated communication.
1. Introducing shared stories
2. Mediated narrative analysis
The toolkit for analysing shared stories
3. Stories in Wikipedia articles
is sharing ever neutral?
4. Co-tellership in the context of Wikipedia talk pages
5. Shared stories and bonding icons in Facebook community pages
6. Collective identities and co-tellership in Facebook comments
7. Shared stories and social television practices in Twitter
8. Co-tellership in retweets
9. Citizen journalism and shared stories in YouTube
10. Creative sharing and laughter in YouTube comments
11. Shared stories revisited.