Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-87115-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

adopts a transdisciplinary approach 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 cross-disciplinary work between narrative theory and psychology in the context of digital environments, interactions, and practices. It also explores through textual analysis and quantitative and qualitative analysis 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- 1. Introduction: the philosophy of digitality.- 2: Digitality and the new narratives.- 3: Narrative theory and narrative therapy: the unexplored narratives of wellbeing.- 4: The incorporation of digitality into contemporary novels: Jennifer Egan, Sally Rooney, Ted Chiang, Anton Hur and Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan.- Narratives of Burnout: Digital echoes through nostalgic means in Sally Rooney, Mieko Kawakami, Max Porter and Sarah Manguso.- 6. The Impact of Narrative Identity through Online Narratives on Wellbeing Among Young People in Hong Kong and China.- 7. Technology in the English classroom and lecture theatre in Ireland: teachers’ perspectives on wellbeing and the language of narration.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at United Arab Emirates University and Research Associate at the Department of English of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Irish Society of Guidance Counsellors and has many years experience counselling and advising students in colleges, schools and universities in Ireland, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong and the UAE. Michael has published 15 books in the fields of literature, education studies and philosophy. Recent books include  (2019/2021); (2012/2014); and (2016/2018)His first novel  was published with Penguin in 2021.