From Sterne and Borges to Lost Storytellers: Cyberspace, Narrative, and Law

Abstract:     
The Internet represents some essential and far-advanced cultural shifts, as well as transformations in some of our social and cultural practices. Such transformations inevitably influence many institutions. This essay attempts to suggest that one aspect of the Internet experience or the Internet culture is relevant to our narrative competence, cognizance, and ability to become storytellers and story listeners. The Internet initiates and continuously induces important shifts in our storytelling practices and narrative cognizance. These shifts carry significant implications in the domain of law. They influence the way we practice law and the way we perceive it. They affect our comprehension of law and the range of anticipations, hopes, and emotions related to it.

Keywords: Law and story, law and web, narrative and law, internet and narrative, generative narratives, functional narratives

JEL Classifications: K10, K19, K20, K29, K30, K39, K40, K49

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