Abstract This paper extends Pentland and Feldman’s (2007) narrative network method and uses it to more clearly understand how new technology affordances and digital spaces impact storytelling and enactment during and immediately after a crisis. To do this, I (a) examine the meaningful roles human motivation and feelings play in online storytelling and enactment, and (b) analyze how context impacts storytelling and enactment, and therefore the construction of narrative networks. Specifically, I analyze a series of Facebook messages exchanged during a recent, very publicized campus crisis to reveal the nonlinear digital stories that are co-constructed online to keep others informed. I demonstrate how crisis-affected populations capitalize on the affordances offered by social media to enact stories, correct stories, and ultimately to aid in sensemaking and sense-giving after a crisis event. Implications of new technology affordances for creating and updating narratives throughout times of high uncertainty are provided.

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数字故事

摘要 本文扩展了 Pentland 和 Feldman (2007) 的叙事网络方法，并使用它来更清楚地了解新技术可供性和数字空间如何在危机期间和之后立即影响讲故事和制定。为此，我 (a) 研究了人类动机和感受在在线讲故事和表演中扮演的有意义的角色，以及 (b) 分析上下文如何影响讲故事和表演，从而影响叙事网络的构建。具体来说，我分析了最近一次广为人知的校园危机期间交换的一系列 Facebook 消息，以揭示在线共同构建的非线性数字故事，以使其他人了解情况。我展示了受危机影响的人群如何利用社交媒体提供的功能来制作故事、纠正故事、并最终帮助在危机事件后进行意义建构和赋予意义。提供了在整个高度不确定时期创建和更新叙述的新技术可供性的含义。