1st Edition

Stories and Social Media Identities and Interaction

By Ruth E. Page Copyright 2012
256 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how new and existing narrative genres are being (re)shaped in different online contexts. The book shows... Read more

Preface  1: Introduction: Stories and Social Media in Context  2: Second Stories Told in Discussion Forums  3: Narratives of Illness and Personal Blogs  4: Storytelling Styles in Facebook Updates  5: Celebrity Practice: Stories told in Twitter  6: Narrative and Commentary in Collaborative Storytelling  7: Space and Identity in Stories on the Move  8: Fakes, Fictions and Facebook "Rape": Narrative Authenticity  9: Familiar, Reconfigured and Emergent Dimensions of Narrative

Biography

Ruth Page is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology (Palgrave, 2006), editor of New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (UNP, 2011).

"Besides the narratological points of interest in Page’s book, it provides some valuable insights regarding various social phenomena related to Internet- based storytelling." - Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Poetics Today