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Narratíva és mediatizáció
Narrative and Mediatization

Author(s): Gábor Szécsi
Subject(s): Theory of Communication
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: narrativity; new media; mediatization; folk psychology; narrative identity

Summary/Abstract: In their communicative acts, individuals infer the mental states and events in the background of observed acts with the help of structures for the organization of events offered by narratives. Narrative thinking, however, has a significant role in the formation of the self and identity. In fact, to such an extent that the self is seen as the product of narrative thinking, a fictional character is emerging at the intersection of autobiographical narratives. In my study I investigate what effect the narrative interpretative schemes used in everyday communication have on our conceptualization of the self, on our self-image, while I also intend to analyze what effect media narratives displaying intentions, beliefs and desires have on the narratives of identity-construction of people using media in mediatized culture. The purpose of the present essay is to demonstrate that analyses like this can, in the long run, contribute to a great extent to the preparation of models and philosophical concepts targeting the description of the functioning and formation of narratives that capitalize on the shared cognitive structures of human motivational factors, goals, emotions and actions.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 95-105
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian