Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being by Michael O’Sullivan ISBN 9783031871153, 9783031871160, 3031871154, 3031871162 instant download

Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being by Michael O’Sullivan ISBN 9783031871153, 9783031871160, 3031871154, 3031871162 instant download

Narrative, Digitality, Wellbeing adopts a transdisciplinary ethos in exploring new forms of narrative that have emerged in a digital age, an age of new online practices that are both associated with increased risk and enhanced sense 
of identity. The book examines new literary narratives, new philosophies of digitality, and new approaches to crossdisciplinary work between narrative theory and psychology in the context of digital environments, interactions, and practices. It also explores through textual analysis and qualitative interviews how users shape and understand these 
new narrative interactions for their own wellbeing and how educators assess the relationships between narratives and wellbeing in the classroom and lecture theatre. The book argues that theories of narrative need to be updated to account for these new forms of narrative and to account for the new ways narrative is employed by users to enhance wellbeing. For example, the narratives students share in sessions with counsellors are heavily influenced by their social media use (SMU). When students come to relate stories of bullying or self-harm or body-shaming they must translate the online, multilayered, multimedia communications into manageable monologues. Students experience a sense of disorientation 
in managing this transition; the retelling can seem disconnected from the original online communication.