From the Novel to Digital Storytelling: Dialogue, Identity, and the Fictionalization of Reality (original) (raw)

Throughout history, societies have been compelled to narrate and fictionalize their life experiences; and over the centuries, technological advances have evolved alongside developments in narrative communication. By situating the relevance of today’s digital media in light of the emergence of the early modern novel during the Spanish Golden Age, this article offers a historical perspective on the effects of media technologies on storytelling. Through Mikhail Bakthin’s concept of dialogism, we can situate Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentations with the novelistic discourse within a framework that helps us explore issues of identity, communication, and self-realization in narrative forms. This process, in turn, helps us to understand how today’s media have transformed the way reality is communicated through storytelling and how its affordances allow us to be immersed in infinite dialogues with others. KeywordS: Miguel de Cervantes, Novel, Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, Digital Storytelli...