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Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age
Contributor(s): Alleyne, Brian (Author)
ISBN: 0857027832     ISBN-13: 9780857027832
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $160.38  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Research & Methodology
- Social Science | Research
Dewey: 001.42
LCCN: 2014940526
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.01 lbs) 224 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
We are invited to think about the now ubiquitous everyday practices of interpreting and producing narratives across a range of modalities. The result is a text that inspires readers to think in new ways about narratives, invites them to analyse narrative texts available on the Web and, for those who wish, suggests how best to employ specialist software.
- Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University of London

It's high time we have a book like this. Brian Alleyne has managed to produce the best, clearest, and most comprehensive overview of narrative theory for social scientists I have yet to see. I wish I'd had access to a book like this when I was a student. It would have made my life so much easier. It will surely become the universally recognised go-to book on the subject.
- David Graeber, London School of Economics & Political Science

Narrative is a fundamental means whereby we make sense of our own lives and of the world around us. The stories we tell, and are being told, shape our identities, relationships and world-views. In a rapidly changing digital society where blogging and social networking have become fundamental communication channels, the platforms for the creation and exchange of all kinds of narratives have greatly expanded.

This book responds to the dynamic production and consumption of stories of all kinds in popular and academic cultures. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the underlying philosophical and methodological issues of narrative and personal narrative research as well as applying these to the current digital landscape. The book provides practical guidance on data management and use of software for the narrative researcher.

Illustrated with examples from a range of fields and disciplines as well as the author's own work on hacking cultures and cultural activism, this title is a must for anyone wanting to learn about narrative approaches in social research and how to conduct successful narrative research in a digital age.

Contributor Bio(s): Alleyne, Brian: - Brian Alleyne is a sociologist interested in social movements, information technology, and ethnographic and narrative research methods. He worked as a computer programmer before studying sociology and development studies at the University of the West Indies. After a period in New York, where he studied sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and then worked as a research assistant at the CLR James Institute, he moved to the United Kingdom. He gained a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and began teaching sociology at Goldsmiths in that same year. For some years, he was a volunteer at the George Padmore Institute, in Finsbury Park, North London. That Institute is made up of a collective of activists, writers, and activists about whose work he wrote a book, Radicals Against Race (Berg, 2002), which was awarded the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best new single-authored sociological text published in 2002. More recently he published Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age (Sage 2015). He maintains his interest in new technologies by hacking code and exploring Linux and other Free Software, and considers himself to be part sociologist and part geek.