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This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of
small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of
scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and
sociolinguistic perspectives. The volume both takes stock of and
seeks to advance the development of small stories research by
Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Bamberg, as a counterpoint to
conventional models in narrative studies, one which has accounted
for "atypical" yet salient activities in everyday life, such as
fragmentation and open-endedness, anchoring onto the present, and
co-constructive dimensions in stories and identities. With data
from different languages and contexts, emphasis is placed on the
analytical aspects of the paradigm toward producing models for the
analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and
genres of small stories. Chapters on the role and commodification
of small stories in digital environments reflect on the
paradigm’s recent extension to the analysis of social media
communication. This book will appeal to scholars interested in
narrative inquiry and narrative analysis, in such fields as
sociolinguistics, literary studies, communication studies, and
biographical studies.
This book interrogates the role of quantification in stories on
social media: how do visible numbers (e.g. of views, shares, likes)
and invisible algorithmic measurements shape the stories we post
and engage with? The links of quantification with stories have not
been explored sufficiently in storytelling research or in social
media studies, despite the fact that platforms have been
integrating sophisticated metrics into developing facilities for
sharing stories, with a massive appeal to ordinary users,
influencers and businesses alike. With case-studies from Instagram,
Reddit and Snapchat, the authors show how three types of metrics,
namely content metrics, interface metrics and algorithmic metrics,
affect the ways in which cancer patients share their experiences,
the circulation of specific stories that mobilize counter-publics
and the design of stories as facilities on platforms. The analyses
document how numbers structure elements in stories, indicate and
produce engagement and become resources for the tellers'
self-presentation. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars working in the fields of narrative and social media
studies, including narratology, biography studies, digital
storytelling, life-writing, narrative psychology, sociological
approaches to narrative, discourse and sociolinguistic
perspectives.
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