Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: stories and social media in context
  • Second stories told in discussion forums
  • Narratives of illness and personal blogs
  • Storytelling styles in facebook updates
  • Celebrity practice: stories told in Twitter
  • Narrative and commentary in collaborative storytelling
  • Space and identity in stories on the move
  • Fakes, fictions and facebook "rape" : narrative authenticity
  • Familiar, reconfigured and emergent dimensions of narrative.