Stories are now a distinctive and established genre in social media. From Snapchat to WhatsApp, via Facebook and Instagram, more than half a billion authors (amateurs, but not only) interact with apps by composing and consuming stories that configure new literature in which alphabetic writing coexists with the growing dominance of visual language. Centered on the narrativization of the lives of the users, invited to tell and retell themselves seamlessly, the hardware architecture and software interfaces of digital devices and media seem to generate a form of addiction to narratives, a need induced in both writing and reading. In the face of such an overdose, the question remains whether those of social media are still "stories that heal" or, rather, stories that poison.
LUMSA, Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0841-7049
Chapter Title
Overdose di storie. La narrazione senza fine dei social media
Authors
Paolo Sordi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5.11
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Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
La narrazione come incontro
Editors
Fabio Ciotti, Carmela Morabito
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
174
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0045-5
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0044-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0045-5
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0046-2
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X