[Air-L] New book - Fragmented Narrative: Telling and interpreting stories in the Twitter age

[Sarah Ann Oates]

Just have to say wow, this looks amazing! I think understanding
communication across platforms via narrative is very exciting. I'm trying
to work on it and I think your book will be very important! Sarah


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On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 8:39 AM Neil Sadler <N.Sadler at qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm happy to announce that my new book Fragmented Narrative: Telling and
> interpreting stories in the Twitter age is now available from Routledge -
> https://www.routledge.com/Fragmented-Narrative-Telling-and-Interpreting-Stories-in-the-Twitter-Age/Sadler/p/book/9781032036762
> .
>
> It starts from the premise that a key change in communication over the
> last couple of decades been a shift to very small units, exemplified by
> Twitter and its 280-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. Drawing on narrative theory and hermeneutics, it's central argument
> is that narrative remains a vital means for understanding, allowing
> fragmentary content to be grasped together as part of significant wholes.
> Using Heideggerian ontology, it 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.
> If you're interested, I've also written a thread breaking things down
> chapter by chapter -
> https://twitter.com/Neil_Sadler/status/1420769556797304833.
>
> Best wishes,
> Neil
>
>
> Dr Neil Sadler
> Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting
> Centre for Translation and Interpreting
> School of Arts, English and Languages, Room 104, 9 University Square,
> Queen's University Belfast
> +44 (0) 289097 5138
> @Neil_Sadler<https://twitter.com/Neil_Sadler>
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