Indirectresponsetotheriseinfakenewsasasocio-culturalandpoliticalphenomenon,thisarticle presentsananalysisofthefactorsthatmayhelptoexplainthereceptionoffakenews.Inaddition, recentpronouncementsmadebytheTrumpWhiteHouseseemtochallengethenatureofanobjective truth.Animmersivenarratologyemphasizesthatdifferentuniversesofdiscoursecanintermi...

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During its early structuralist and typological phases, narratology faced a great deal of difficulty relating theory to practice. The study narrative texts is both an applied science in own right. Its critical challenge as 'So what?' Why do we need all these subcategories understand texts? Narratology has been criticized for not producing significant readings theory, like deconstruction or Lacan...

The video game industry is the combination of two worlds: technology (IT) and show-biz/media/cultural industries. This paper explores this tension by exposing the shortcomings of the culture economics perspective and its lack of understanding for the unique characteristics of the video game medium, thus subsequently proposing a deeper analysis of the medium by turning to literary theoretical pe...

This article attempted to analyze the success stories of students at tertiary level in an ESL context during COVID-19 remote learning mode. paper provided a meta-analysis narrative analysis using Polanyi’s framework (Polanyi, 1981). I argued that these data evaluate conversational on structural components and this highlighted problems as well potentials model field narratology. Data revealed su...

When game studies has tackled the player-character, it has tended to do so by means of an oppositon to the notion of the avatar, with the result that the ontological and semiotic nature of the character in itself has not been given due attention. This paper draws on understandings of character from the fields of narratology and literary theory to highlight the double-layered ontology of charact...