1st Edition
Analyzing Narrative Online Affordances and Practices
1. Setting the Scene: the Evolution of Storytelling in the Digital Era 2. Tracking and Collecting Stories: Methods and Data-Points 3. Distributing Stories: Sharing and Participation Practices 4. Working with Stories as Multimodal Activities: A Synergy 5. Analysing Identities in Stories: Platformed Practices and Affordances 6. Beyond Personal Identities Postscript: From Online Narratives to GenAI Storytelling
Biography
Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics in the Italian Department and Affiliated Faculty with the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University. Her interests focus on narrative, discourse and identity, discourse practices among immigrant and transnational communities, and super-diversity. She has published extensively on these topics.
Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics at King’s College London. She has developed small stories research as a paradigm for the analysis of everyday storytelling, with a current focus on curated storytelling on social media. She has (co-)authored and edited 18 books on narrative, identities and digital communication.
