TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fatima-al-zahraa Ahmad Ramy,
AU  - Maha El-Said Prof. Randa Aboubakr
AU  - Randa Aboubakr
TI  - Individual narratives as cultural interventions: a study of selected blogs 
U1  - 420 
PY  - 2024///
KW  - English Language
KW  - اللغة الإنجليزية
KW  - Individual narratives
KW  - stereotypical representations
KW  - cultural studies
KW  -  participatory culture
KW  - digital humanities
N1  - Thesis (Ph.D)-Cairo University, 2024; Bibliography: pages 225-242; Issues also as CD
N2  - As digital forms of self-expression, blogs are at the crossroads of literature and media studies. While examining the inherent literary qualities of this emerging genre, its multimodal features are simultaneously analyzed in light of Mona Baker’s narrative typology in ways that attest to their resistive quality and modes of (re)shaping reality. Narrating their own personal stories within a heated post-9/11 milieu, the six selected bloggers offer ontological narratives that resist, and often subvert, more dominant ‘meta’ narratives which perpetuate stereotypical configurations of the Middle East often propagated through mainstream media discourse. The blog narratives are further understood through personal interviews which have been conducted with the selected bloggers for the purpose of this thesis. Their candid and heartfelt conversations help appreciate the genre’s outreach further especially with regards to both the bloggers and the audience's perception of their own realities. Thus, within the blogosphere’s produsage culture, the spontaneity, immediacy, and liberty which the writers and the audiences mutually experience are also examined. Promoting societal debate within a growing ‘participatory’ culture while contesting the hegemony of mainstream media representations, an understanding of the significant role of such individual narratives is essential while drawing on the Habermasian model of a public sphere, thus, offering extended global cross-cultural communication. Hence, bloggers share not only narrations based on first-hand life experiences, but also personal views and commentaries with a worldwide readership instantly and freely sharing their feedback in response. To accentuate their agencies further, the bloggers’ subjectivities and self-representations are also studied in light of reshaping their respective cultures as well as promoting a model of reimaging one’s identity and re-inventing the self. Through reconstructing their own personal memories and recollections of the past, the writers engage with questions that examine not only the temporal but also the spatial dimension of memory as a mental ‘space.’ The influence of such reconfigurations is evident through the blogosphere’s networked structures and which, in effect, extends to remarkably shape digital culture at large; تعد السرديات الذاتية من خلال التدوين الرقمي نموذجاً مهماً للتعبيرعن الذات مقروء عبر الإنترنت، وانتشارها مؤخراً يرجع إلى أساليب التعبير المرنة التي يختبرها الكاتب والمتلقي في آن واحد والتي ربما تكون مفقودة في بعض الأشكال الأدبية الأخرى. أولاً، يظهر ذلك من خلال فرصة الكتاب لسرد خبراتهم الشخصية بجانب رؤاهم لبعض الأحداث المعاصرة، وثانياً، من خلال فرصة القراء للتعليقات والتواصل بشكل مرن وفعال. وبالأخص بالنظر إلى الشرق الأوسط وما مر به من تطورات ما بعد أحداث الحادي عشر من سبتمبر منذ 2001  وكيف أنتج ذلك صوراً نمطية للمنطقة ولأفرادها تركز هذه الدراسة على ست مدونات بالإنجليزية في ضوء المفاهيم السردية لمنى بيكر في كتابها "الترجمة والصراع: رؤية سردية" (2006) والذي يؤكد على الدور المحوري للسرديات الفردية في إعادة تشكيل رؤى الواقع والتي تتشابك في كثير من الأحيان مع رؤى مهيمنة مغلوطة. تركز الدراسة أيضاً على مفهومي "الثقافة البديلة الصاعدة" لرايموند ويليمز (Williams, “Base” 41) و"الهيمنة الثقافية" لأنطونيو جرامشي (Hall et al. 183). توضح الدراسة من خلال تحليل الأعمال المختارة دور السرديات الفردية في مواجهة وتفكيك بعض التمثيلات النمطية
ER  -