The Narrative Subject : Storytelling in the Age of the Internet.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schachtner, Christina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Narrative Subject
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 The Sociocultural Significance of Narrating
  • 1.2 The Subject-Theoretical Approach
  • 1.3 Empirical Analysis
  • 1.3.1 Methodology
  • 1.3.2 Sample
  • 1.3.3 Research Methods
  • 1.4 Structure of the Book
  • 1.5 Innovative Aspects
  • 1.6 Major Themes
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Storytelling as a Cultural Practice and Life Form
  • 2.1 Contexts of Storytelling
  • 2.1.1 Time
  • 2.1.1.1 Time as a Point of Reference for Storytelling
  • 2.1.1.2 Time and Narrative
  • 2.1.1.3 Time as a Product of Storytelling
  • 2.1.2 Space
  • 2.1.2.1 Spaces as Products of Narrating
  • 2.1.2.2 Spaces as a Housing for Narrating
  • 2.1.2.3 Spatial Connections
  • 2.2 The Functions of Narrating
  • 2.2.1 Narrating as a Technology of Self-construction
  • 2.2.1.1 Orientation and Agency
  • 2.2.1.2 Self-knowledge and Self-understanding
  • 2.2.1.3 Coherence and Change
  • 2.2.2 Narrating Opening Up to the You
  • 2.2.2.1 The Other as a Reference Point for Narrating
  • 2.2.2.2 The Other as a Topic and Co-narrator
  • 2.2.2.3 The Other as Part of the Narrative Self
  • 2.3 Narrating as a Technology of Subjection and Enablement
  • References
  • Chapter 3: The Narrative Space of the Internet
  • 3.1 The Sociocultural Charge of Media
  • 3.2 The Structural Characteristics of Digital Media
  • 3.2.1 Interconnectedness
  • 3.2.1.1 Reciprocity
  • 3.2.1.2 Heterogeneity and multiplicity
  • 3.2.1.3 Openness
  • 3.2.1.4 Dynamics
  • 3.2.2 Interactivity
  • 3.2.3 Globality
  • 3.2.4 Multimediality
  • 3.2.4.1 Language, Writing, and Text
  • 3.2.4.2 Images
  • 3.2.4.3 The Relationship Between Language and the Image
  • 3.2.4.4 Media Carriers of Meaning and Their Addressees
  • 3.2.5 Virtuality
  • 3.2.5.1 The Relationship Between Virtuality and Reality.
  • 3.2.5.2 Virtual Spaces as Heterotopias
  • 3.2.5.3 The Narrative Potential of Digital Heterotopias
  • References
  • Chapter 4: The Net Generation's Stories: A Typology
  • 4.1 Narrations About Interconnectedness
  • 4.1.1 Showing and Exchanging
  • 4.1.2 Seeing and Being Seen
  • 4.1.3 Sharing
  • 4.2 Self-Staging Narrations
  • 4.2.1 The Adored Star
  • 4.2.2 Role Model and Seeker in One
  • 4.2.3 The Counter-Model
  • 4.3 Stories About Supplying and Selling
  • 4.3.1 Objects and Designer Products on Offer
  • 4.3.2 Participatory Projects on Offer
  • 4.4 Narrations About Managing Boundaries
  • 4.4.1 Managing Boundaries as an Answer to Sociocultural Borders
  • 4.4.2 Managing Boundaries as an Individual Need
  • 4.5 Transformation Narrations
  • 4.5.1 The Goal-Oriented Actors
  • 4.5.2 The Role Player
  • 4.6 Stories About Setting Out and Breaking Away
  • 4.6.1 Setting Out and Breaking Away as a Biographical Project
  • 4.6.2 Setting Out and Breaking Away as a Political Project
  • References
  • Chapter 5: A Theoretical Postscript: Time, Space, the Self and the You, and Digital Media as Narrative Constructions
  • 5.1 Time Stamps
  • 5.1.1 "I wanted to play football with the boys but …": Biographical Time
  • 5.1.1.1 The Present as a Consequence of the Autobiographical Past
  • 5.1.1.2 Current Life Circumstances as Justifying or Supporting Factors
  • 5.1.2 "It's like a political awakening …": Sociocultural Time
  • 5.2 Spatial Relationships
  • 5.2.1 Experiencing and Managing Boundaries
  • 5.2.2 Spatial Crossings
  • 5.2.3 Creating and Configuring Spaces
  • 5.3 Representations of the Self
  • 5.3.1 Standardization and Experimentation
  • 5.3.2 Orientation
  • 5.3.3 Division Versus Continuity
  • 5.4 Connections with the You
  • 5.4.1 Wrestling for the Other's Attention
  • 5.4.2 World Communication
  • 5.5 Narrators, Narratives, Media: Cornerstones of Interplay.
  • 5.5.1 No End in Sight
  • 5.5.2 The Upswing of the Image
  • 5.5.3 Transmedia
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Narrating as an Answer to Sociocultural Challenges
  • 6.1 Detraditionalization
  • 6.2 Pluralization
  • 6.3 The Blurring of Borders
  • 6.4 Individualization
  • 6.5 Global Flows, Crossovers, and Hybridity
  • 6.6 Round-up
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Narrative Production of Culture
  • 7.1 Culture and Its Designers
  • 7.2 The Future of Narrating in Translation
  • 7.2.1 Narrating and Translating
  • 7.2.2 The Translational Turn
  • 7.3 Media, Culture, and Narrative Translationality
  • References
  • Index.