[Commlist] Fragmented Narrative: Latest Volume in Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media

This is the latest volume to be published in the Critical Perspectives 
on Citizen Media Series <http://citizenmediaseries.org/>. As one of the 
series co-editors who read the manuscript closely before publication I 
can honestly say it’s one of the most innovative, intellectually rich 
and yet quite accessible works I’ve read on narrative in years. The 
author is also one of the contributors to the Routledge Encyclopedia of 
Citizen Media 
<http://citizenmediaseries.org/published_volumes/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media/>, 
with very good entries on Social Media 
<http://citizenmediaseries.org/published_volumes/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-abstracts/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-abstracts-s/#social_media> 
and Twitter & Hashtags 
<http://citizenmediaseries.org/published_volumes/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-abstracts/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media-abstracts-t/#twitter>.

Fragmented Narrative
Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age 
<https://www.routledge.com/Fragmented-Narrative-Telling-and-Interpreting-Stories-in-the-Twitter-Age/Sadler/p/book/9781032036762>

ISBN 9781032036762

July 29, 2021, Routledge

By Neil Sadler, Queen’s University Belfast

With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices 
are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key 
change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and 
its strict 240-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly 
fragmented communication has become the norm in many contexts. 
/Fragmented Narrative /sets out to explore the production and reception 
of fragmentary stories, analysing the Twitter-based narrative practices 
of Donald Trump, the Spanish political movement Podemos, and Egyptian 
activists writing in the context of the 2013 military intervention in Egypt.

Sadler draws on narrative theory and hermeneutics to argue that 
narrative remains a vital means for understanding, allowing fragmentary 
content to be grasped together as part of significant wholes. Using 
Heideggerian ontology, he proposes that our capacity to do this is 
grounded in the centrality of narrative to human existence itself. The 
book strives to provide a new way of thinking about the interpretation 
of fragmentary information, applicable both to social media and beyond.

Contributing to the emerging literature in existential media studies, 
this timely volume will interest students, scholars and researchers of 
narrative, new media and language and communication studies.


    *Table of Contents*

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One – Theorising fragmented narrative: Knowing and being

Chapter Two – Telling stories with fragments: Vertical, horizontal and 
ambient narrative

Chapter Three – Interpreting fragmented stories I: Open texts, 
distanciation and writerly readers

Chapter Four – Interpreting fragmented stories II: Existential 
understanding, limited horizons and narrative forestructuring

Chapter Five – Narrative and truth: Correspondence, coherence and disclosure

Conclusion – Stories, Citizens and Being

Glossary of Heideggerian terms

Bibliography

/Index/

Mona Baker

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Affiliate Professor, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), 
University of Oslo

Director, Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, Shanghai 
International Studies University

Honorary Dean, Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation, Beijing 
Foreign Studies University

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Check out the Resources section for videos of the Cairo Globalizing 
Dissent Conference, March 2015: 
https://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com/resources-2 
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Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution. 
Winner of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year Award. Free Content and 
Resources at 
_https://www.monabaker.org/2017/09/19/translating-dissent-voices-from-and-with-the-egyptian-revolution/_

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