Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
