Maria Mäkelä: Small Story, Grand Narrative
CDN Digital Narrative Summer School Keynote.
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How to Understand Social Media Storytelling and What It’s Doing to Us.
Why did the prompt to share your story fail to make the world a better place? The lecture offers critical insights on social media storytelling from the perspective of narrative theory, by asking how platform affordances and values reshape narrative authority and ethics.
Part of the Digital Narrative Summer School, open to the public.
About Maria Mäkelä
Maria Mäkelä is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and was the Director of Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies from 2016-2020.
Her research spans a wide range of topics, including storification, neoliberal narrative logic, and the literary tradition of adultery, covering media from 17th century French novels to contemporary fiction and corporate storytelling.
