Small Stories of the Greek Crisis on Facebook:

Social Media + Society

Mariza Georgalou¹ 

关键词: Greek crisis;    small stories;    narrative dimensions;    discourse-centered online ethnography;    stance-taking;    Facebook;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2056305115605859

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Since it erupted in 2009, the Greek debt crisis has disrupted Greek people’s quotidian life both at a socio-political and at a personal level. In the contemporary social media ecosystem, with the massive bulk of user-produced and user-consumed content, narratives that concern this critical turning point in Greek modern history have found fertile soil to thrive. In this article, having enmeshed discourse-centered online ethnography (Androutsopoulos, 2008) with small stories research (Georgakopoulou, 2007), the dimensional approach to narratives (Ochs & Capps, 2001), and stance-taking (Du Bois, 2007), I look at how a Greek Facebook user has recounted her emotions, thoughts, opinions, and assessments toward the Greek crisis. In doing so, I point to the intertextual, multimodal, and synergetic nature of these narratives. The article argues that Facebook can function as a powerful grassroots channel for expressive storytelling within a period of major socio-political upheaval. It also shows how Facebook has stretched our conception of what (digital) storytelling is as different Facebook affordances propel into different ways of narrating within the medium.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC