Stories and Social Media : Identities and Interaction.

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 n...

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Main Author: Page, Ruth E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2011.
Series:Routledge studies in sociolinguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Stories and Social Media : Identities and Interaction; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Permissions; 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; Notes.