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The Narrative Subject

Christina Schachtner

The Narrative Subject Storytelling in the Age of the Internet

Christina Schachtner Institute of Media and Communications University of Klagenfurt Klagenfurt, Austria

First published in German as “Das narrative Subjekt. Erzählen im Zeitalter des Internets.” Copyright for the German edition: 2016, transcript: Bielefeld, Germany Translated from the German by Helen Heaney

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Preface

Network actors and bloggers from various countries in the Arab world and Europe as well as from the USA provided the empirical basis for this book with their narratives in words and images. Thanks to their willingness to participate in the study “Communicative Publics in Cyberspace,” it was possible to propound a typology of narrations which can be read as time stamps, illustrating what is on the minds of adolescents and young adults in different parts of the world today. I would like to thank them for their readiness to talk. My thanks also go to the researchers in my team at the University of Klag