Blogs and the Narrativity of Experience

88 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2008 Last revised: 3 Aug 2014

Date Written: April 1, 2008

Abstract

This paper undertakes an analysis of the narrativity of a form of discourse which has appeared recently (blogs) within the framework of an emergentist theory of narrativity and its discursive modes. The narrative/discursive characteristics of blogs emerge from a preexistent ground of more basic or less specific communicative practices; and narrative discursivity itself is an emergent phenomenon with respect to other cognitive and experiential phenomena. A number of formal and communicative characteristics of blog writing and of the blogosphere are discussed as emergent modes of experience within the pragmatic context of computer-mediated communication.

Keywords: Blogs, Narrative, Narrativity, Narratology, Experience, Time, Processes, Communication, Discourse, Emergence, Interaction, World Wide Web, Internet,

Suggested Citation

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Blogs and the Narrativity of Experience (April 1, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1113321 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1113321

Jose Angel Garcia Landa (Contact Author)

Universidad de Zaragoza ( email )

Gran Via 2
Zaragoza, 50005
Spain

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