Narratives online : shared stories in social media /

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Author / Creator:Page, Ruth E., 1972- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562636
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ISBN:9781108606066
1108606067
9781316492390
1316492397
9781316505557
1316505553
9781107139916
1107139910
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Stories are shared by millions of people online every day. They post and re-post interactions as they re-tell and respond to large-scale mediated events. These stories are important as they can bring people together, or polarise them in opposing groups. Narratives Online explores this new genre - the shared story - and uses carefully chosen case-studies to illustrate the complex processes of sharing as they are shaped by four international social media contexts: Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Building on discourse analytic research, Ruth Page develops a new framework - 'Mediated Narrative Analysis' - to address the large scale, multimodal nature of online narratives, helping researchers interpret the micro- and macro-level politics that are played out in computer-mediated communication"--
Other form:Print version: Page, Ruth E., 1972- Narratives online. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781107139916 1107139910