Journalism, social networks and mini serial narratives
Serial narratives are part of contemporary culture and they are deeply influencing storytelling techniques in the social networking era. In this article Roy Peter Clark delves deep into this topic:
While newspapers have moved away, to some extent, from multi-part serial narratives, there are signs of mini-serialization everywhere: in the cartoon strips and panels that let us visit our favorite characters each morning; in the racehorse coverage of local and national elections; in recurring news stories about Chilean miners trapped in a mine, or a British Petroleum well polluting the Gulf of Mexico. A live blog is a kind of serial narrative constructed in real time, and Facebook and Twitter often resemble the grammar and style of direct, observed reporting.