Editors’ Introduction

Authors

  • Alexandra Georgakopoulou King’s College London
  • Melina Ghasseminejad University of Antwerp
  • Kimberly Hall Wofford College

Keywords:

“true self”, credibility, fictionality, performance, digital storytelling

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Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. “Co-opting small stories on social media: A narrative analysis of the directive of authenticity.” Poetics Today, vol. 43, no. 2 (2022), pp. 265-286.

Hund, Emily. The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Korthals Altes, Liesbeth. Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction. University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Maria Mäkelä, “Viral storytelling as contemporary narrative didacticism” in, The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy. Eds. Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Routledge, 2021, pp. 49-59.

Martínez, Matías. “Authenticity in narratology and in literary studies” in, Narrative Factuality: A Handbook, edited by Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan, De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 521–31.

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Published

2025-08-05

How to Cite

Georgakopoulou, A., Ghasseminejad, M., & Hall, K. (2025). Editors’ Introduction. Narrative Works, 13(2), 1–10. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/34960