Blogs and the Narrativity of Experience

Abstract

This paper undertakes an analysis of the narrativity of a form of discourse which has appeared recently (blogs) within the framework of an emergentist theory of narrativity and its discursive modes. The narrative/discursive characteristics of blogs emerge from a preexistent ground of more basic or less specific communicative practices; and narrative discursivity itself is an emergent phenomenon with respect to other cognitive and experiential phenomena. A number of formal and communicative characteristics of blog writing and of the blogosphere are discussed as emergent modes of experience within the pragmatic context of computer-mediated communication.

Keywords: Blogs, Narrative, Narrativity, Narratology, Experience, Time, Processes, Communication, Discourse, Emergence, Interaction, World Wide Web, Internet,