ABSTRACT
Thilo von Pape, University of Hohenheim
Before we were permanently connected (PC) through the use of mobile and social media, the opportunities to share our lives’ events with others were more sporadic. Furthermore, the accounts given during these opportunities (e.g., telephone conversations) were more elaborate. Currently, media users can rapidly record and share events and leave the structuring of the narrative to their online social network’s “timeline” or other forms of technological storytelling. However, the ways in which we elaborate on events cognitively influence the meaning we take from them for ourselves. This chapter explores possible consequences by reviewing the literature on narratology and meaningfulness.
