New narratives : stories and storytelling in the digital age / edited by Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Page, Ruth E., 1972-

Thomas, Bronwen.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Online authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and broadly considering the relationship between digital technology and narrative theory in the face of the changing landscape of computer-mediated communication. New Narratives reflects the diversity of its subject by bringing together some of the foremost practitioners and theo

Contents:

From synesthesia to multimedia : how to talk about new media narrative / Daniel Punday

The interactive onion: layers of user participation in digital narrative tests / Marie-Laure Ryan

Ontological boundaries and methodological leaps: the importance of possible worlds theory for hypertext fiction (and beyond) / Alice Bell

Seeing through the blue nowhere: on narrative transparency and new media / Michael Joyce

Curveship: an interactive fiction system for narrative variation / Nick Montfort

Digitized corpora as theory-building resource: new methods for narrative inquiry / Andrew Salway and David Herman

From (w)reader to breather: cybertextual de-institutionalization and Kate Pullinger's Breathing wall / Astrid Ensslin

Songlines in the streets: story mapping with itinerant hypernarrative / Brian Greenspan

Narrative supplements: DVD and the idea of "text" / Paul Cobley and Nick Haeffner

All together now: hypertext, collective narratives, and online collective knowledge communities / Scott Rettberg

"Update soon!" Harry Potter fanfiction and narrative as a participatory process / Bronwen Thomas

Blogging on the body : gender and narrative / Ruth Page

Using the force: LEGO Star wars: the video game, intertextuality, narrative, and play / James Newman and Iain Simons

Digital narratives, cultural inclusion and educational possibility : going new places with old stories in elementary school / Heather Lotherington.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613884701

9781283572255

1283572257

9780803238367

0803238363

OCLC:

809536920