When answering the question what is a narrative, it’s best to start with the simplest explanation. Kreiswirth sums it up nicely saying that a narrative is “someone telling someone else something happened.” [1] Something happens and someone knows about it. That someone is the narrator and they compile a message that is to be sent out to narratees. As Fischer states in her keynote Defining Narrative this narrative text “is in a virtual, hybrid verbal and/or visual, sound as well in a mimic/facial and gestural/bodily text. [2] When it comes to narratives in the cyber world anything can be used from pictures, video, sound, text and written word. There are so many different ways that a narrator can convey a story that the audience is widened from just one narratee to the potential of millions of different narratees.
[1] Kreiswirth, Martin: Merely Telling Stories? Narrative and Knowledge in the Human Sciences. Poestics Today 21:2 (Summer 2000), p. 294.
[2] Fischer, Annemarie. “Defining Narrative.” Global Media Narratives. Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY. 2/24/2011. Keynote.
It sounds like, based on your definition of a narrative as well as citing Prof. Fischer's definition, that you believe that many different types of information transfers can be narratives. It is interesting because when you think about it, sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words. Sometimes an image or an emotional sound-clip can convey a much deeper message than traditional written word.
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