Digital Storytelling and Changing Narrative Practices in Contemporary English Literature
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https://doi.org/10.63345/Keywords:
Digital Storytelling, Contemporary English Literature, Computational Narratology, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Multimodal Narrative, Reader AgencyAbstract
Digital storytelling is transforming contemporary English literary practice by integrating written language with visual, auditory, interactive, algorithmic, and increasingly AI-generated elements.
This study investigates how digital narrative environments alter established conventions of chronology, narrative voice, authorship, reader participation, and multimodal meaning construction. A key research gap lies in the limited computational examination of these transformations, since much existing scholarship treats electronic literature, multimodality, and generative artificial intelligence as relatively separate areas of inquiry. The proposed research develops an integrated computational-narratological framework for comparing born-digital narratives, digitally extended literary texts, and selected AI-assisted English narratives published or circulated in contemporary digital environments.
Natural language processing and machine-learning techniques are conceptualized as analytical tools for identifying shifts in temporal organization, perspective, semantic variation, narrative branching, and stylistic consistency. Particular attention is given to the transition from fixed author-controlled narration toward distributed narrative agency involving authors, interfaces, algorithms, and readers.
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