Narrative Subject

Christina Schachtner is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research focuses on migration and media, network communication, virtual publics, social movements in the age of the internet, and digital media and psychoanalysis.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Storytelling as a Cultural Practice and Life Form.- 3. The Narrative Space of the Internet.- 4. The Net Generation’s Stories: A Typology.- 5. A Theoretical Postscript: Time, Space, the Self and the You, and Digital Media as Narrative Constructions.- 6. Narrating as an Answer to Socio-Cultural Challenges.- 7. Narrative Production of Culture.