Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Authenticity in Narrative Contexts

Published: 2025-08-05

Introduction

Editors’ Introduction

Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Melina Ghasseminejad, Kimberly Hall

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Research Articles

From “Being Real” to “Relatable Tales”: Formatted Authenticity and Stories in TikTok Short Form Videos

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

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TikTok and Narrative Authority: A Response to Georgakopoulou

Maria Mäkelä

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Real Readers and James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces: The Mediating Role of Authenticity on Perceived Non-Fictionality

Melina Ghasseminejad

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Engagement with “Real Readers and James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces: Autofiction as a Reading Strategy and the Mediating Role of Authenticity” by Melina Ghasseminejad

Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen

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Digital Rebranding and Quotidian Self-Reinvention: Wellness Influencer-Healers’ Negotiations of Authenticity and Tellability Crises on Instagram

Maxine Ali

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Rebranding the Seriality of Social Media Storytelling: Engagement with “Digital Rebranding and Quotidian Self-reinvention: Wellness Influencer-healers’ Negotiations of Authenticity and Tellability crises on Instagram” by Maxine Ali

Ruth Page

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Reclaiming and Renegotiating Authenticity Through Autofiction: Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You

Mengchen Lang

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Engagement with “Reclaiming and renegotiating authenticity through autofiction: Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You” by Mengchen Lang

Massimiliano Manni

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Authenticating Hafu Identities on Instagram: A Small Stories Analysis of Interactions on Hafugods

Laura Mark

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The Beauty of the Gods: Engagement with Laura Mark’s “Authenticating Hafu Identities on Instagram"

Brian Schiff

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Public Intellectual on the Fringes. The Affordances of Being Authentic and Inauthentic in Rodaan Al Galidi’s Newspaper Columns

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

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The Picaresque Public Intellectual: Dialogue with Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

Odile Heynders

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