This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the Facebook status update: namely, the practices of commenting, liking, linking, tagging, photo-sharing, and marking geographical location. Our longitudinal analysis of 1800 updates elicited from 60 participants over a period of four years suggests that the rise of what we call a ‘networked narrative’ allows individuals to participate collectively in the construction of ‘shared stories’ (Georgakopoulou, 2007), and through this process for narrators to co-construct their social identities through their interactions with others. We argue that the distribution of storytelling as it takes place on Facebook may be found in other online and offline contexts, and challenges earlier, linear models of narrative form that have dominated discourse-analytic and literary-critical narratology.
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Bou-Franch, Patricia
2021. Evaluation, Conflict and Prescriptive Metapragmatic Comments: (Re)constructing Transmedia Stories. In Analyzing Digital Discourses, ► pp. 189 ff.
Fox, Jesse, Jessica R. Frampton, Elizabeth Jones & Kathryn Lookadoo
2021. Romantic relationship dissolution on social networking sites: Self-Presentation and public accounts of breakups on Facebook. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38:12 ► pp. 3732 ff.
Lane, Murray, Ramisa Raya, Nick Kelly, Anthea Castellano, Rachel Ward, Elise Lawrence, Louise Hooper & Corinne Loane
2021. Networked Narratives in Facebook: A Case Study of Students Supporting and Inspiring One Another. In Student Support Services [University Development and Administration, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
Lane, Murray, Ramisa Raya, Nick Kelly, Anthea Castellano, Rachel Ward, Elise Lawrence, Louise Hooper & Corinne Loane
2022. Networked Narratives in Facebook: A Case Study of Students Supporting and Inspiring One Another. In Student Support Services [University Development and Administration, ], ► pp. 631 ff.
Michel, Sascha & Daniel Pfurtscheller
2021. »Ich bin seit Montag Zuhause in Quarantäne« – Zur Verbindung von Erzählen und Argumentieren in Social-Media-Kommentaren zu politischen Reden. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 51:2 ► pp. 255 ff.
2020. Political narrating in non-political crises: narrativity practices on Persian Twitter during the 2017 Kermanshah earthquake. Asian Journal of Communication 30:6 ► pp. 431 ff.
Hawk, Dianne V., Patricia Cardoso, Donna Cross & Joelie Mandzufas
2019. Designs on Narrative: A Design-Based Method to Elicit Young People’s Narratives About Electronic Image-Sharing Issues and Interventions. In Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People, ► pp. 113 ff.
Scholz, Joachim & Andrew N. Smith
2019. Branding in the age of social media firestorms: how to create brand value by fighting back online. Journal of Marketing Management 35:11-12 ► pp. 1100 ff.
Koteyko, Nelya & Dimitrinka Atanasova
2018. Mental health advocacy on Twitter: Positioning in Depression Awareness Week tweets. Discourse, Context & Media 25 ► pp. 52 ff.
Liang, Yuhua (Jake) & Kerk F Kee
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Sadler, Neil
2018. Narrative and interpretation on Twitter: Reading tweets by telling stories. New Media & Society 20:9 ► pp. 3266 ff.
Walkington, Zoe, Graham Pike, Ailsa Strathie, Catriona Havard, Hayley Ness & Virginia Harrison
2017. The interactional spaces of social media: ethics, method and research practice. In Discours des réseaux sociaux : enjeux publics, politiques et médiatiques [Culture & Communication, ], ► pp. 41 ff.
Wang, Ruoxu, Jinyoung Kim, Anli Xiao & Yong Ju Jung
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Blomberg, Helena
2016. Nurses’ blogs as part of a political process – Professional identity as a rhetorical resource for negotiating responsibility and blame. Discourse, Context & Media 13 ► pp. 82 ff.
Wängqvist, Maria & Ann Frisén
2016. Who am I Online? Understanding the Meaning of Online Contexts for Identity Development. Adolescent Research Review 1:2 ► pp. 139 ff.
Gamba, Fiorenza
2015. Faire le deuil par l’image. Revue des sciences sociales :54 ► pp. 72 ff.
Georgalou, Mariza
2015. Beyond the Timeline: Constructing time and age identities on Facebook. Discourse, Context & Media 9 ► pp. 24 ff.
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