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Abstract
This dissertation explores the pathways and traces the dead ends of global news narratives on the internet. My interdisciplinary project connects narratology to Comparative Literature and World Literature with global communications, supported by ethnographic interviews at the United Nations.
This research reframes globalization, communication, and information with narrative. Global topics emerge: human rights, climate change, war and peace, migration, health care, financial markets, sports, and culture. Some stories become more global(ly distributed) and digitally represented in the World Wide Web than Others.
The internet creates community modes and revolutionizes the communication model. This paradigm shift merges sender and receiver, and boosts (and challenges) corporate frameworks, and reception transcends national borders and boundaries between fact and fiction. A micro point of view completes and competes with the macropolitical perspective, conceptualized by Olga Tokarczuk as tender narrator. Verbally, the rule of the rumor echoes. Visually, photomosaics mirror a self-reflexive aesthetics.
My contribution to existing scholarship is a basic terminology for factual narrative. I introduce a quantitative approach to narratology with reflex-narrative and defect-narrative, my narralysis methodology of narrative analysis, my circulism model on circular (ex)changes in and the (im)permeability of the global news flow, and a pedagogy for global factual narratology in university teaching.
This work performs a narralysis of four paradigm-shifting cyber narratives of the 21st century: the 2004 tsunami, the 2009 Iranian protest movement, feminicidios in Ciudad Juárez, and Google Earth’s Crisis in Darfur.
The fate of the virtual narrative lies in the hands of the produser. A text without reception remains monologue; with reception, it becomes dialogue and multilogue. Drawing on Walter Lippmann, Walter Benjamin, Ludwik Fleck, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Gerald Prince, Franz Karl Stanzel, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Manuel Castells, Immanuel Wallerstein, Marie-Laure Ryan, Monika Fludernik, and Axel Bruns, my methodology evaluates the internet as a resource-driven system. The status value as a palimpsest determines discovery, reception, (re)distribution, and (re)production by the global citizenry. The Other part of the digital divide is left out in information poverty. The global dilemma is how to tell stories and generate resources within an economic system without adhering to economic messaging.





