• • Narrating as a technology of subjection and enablement

Unit-III: The Narrative Space of the Internet

• • The sociocultural charge of media
  • The structural characteristics of digital media
    • Interconnectedness
    • Interactivity
    • Globality
    • Multimediality
    • Virtuality

Unit-IV: The Net Generation’s Stories: A Typology

• • Narrations about Interconnectedness
  • Self-Staging Narrations
  • Stories About Supplying and Selling
  • Stories about Setting out and Breaking Away

Unit-V: A Theoretical Postscript: Time, Space, the Self and the You, and Digital Media as

• • Narrative Constructions
  • Time Stamps
  • Spatial Relationships
  • Representations of the Self
  • Connections with the You
  • Narrators, Narratives, Media: Cornerstones of Interplay

Unit-VI: Narrating as an Answer to Sociocultural Challenges

• • Detraditionalization
  • Pluralization
  • The Blurring of Borders
  • Individualization
  • Global Flows, Crossovers, and Hybridity

Unit-VII: Narrative Production of Culture

• • Culture and Its Designers
  • The Future of Narrating in Translation
  • Media, Culture, and Narrative Translationality

As the Internet continues to evolve as both a tool of communication and a platform for building narratives, we are in turn constantly exposed to new literary phenomena, new categories of fiction, and new storytelling techniques. These works of the Digital Age – heavily influenced by postmodern thinking – call for a re-evaluation of our most basic assumptions relating to authorship, characterization, setting, plot and more. This course will examine key works of digital narratives including webcomics, fan fiction, fan films and online video games, and apply the critical frameworks of established scholars such as Roland Barthes, Alice Bell, Henry Jenkins and more

The objectives of this course are to:

• • Acquaint students with a variety of narrative techniques and important concepts in narrative theory including voice and perspective, the character of the narrator, unreliable narration, and the important distinction between story and discourse.
  • Examine narrative techniques across a range of traditional and new media including novels, feature films, long-form television series, graphic novels, computer-generated poetry, and historical fiction.
  • Examine the complexity of narrative forms in the digital age.
  • Make students explore how the art of narration is intrinsic to a text's capacity for innovative and imaginative expression.

Teaching will be done through lecture method with a combination of tasks/projects and presentations

Assessment and Examinations

Assessment will be done as per university/department policy.