The Story Logic of Social Media: Co-Construction and Emergent Narrative Authority

PAUL DAWSON is the author of The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (OSU Press, 2013) and Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). He is the winner of the 2010 prize for Best Essay in Narrative, and guest editor of a 2018 special issue of Poetics Today, “Narrative Theory and the History of the Novel.” Paul's articles have appeared in journals such as ELH, Narrative, and Studies in the Novel. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. ([email protected])

MARIA MÄKELÄ is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, where she was also Director of Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies (2014–2020). In 2018, she was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University. In 2019, she was the President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She was a co-editor of Narrative, Interrupted (De Gruyter, 2012) and Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media (Routledge, 2015). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Narrative, Poetics Today, Partial Answers, and Style. She heads three projects dealing with the instrumentalization of narratives. ([email protected])