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)
