Narrative matters : you do you : teens’ coconstruction of narrative, reality and identity on social media

• Main Author: Duffy, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social Identity; DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media; Social Media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83284; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50190
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Children's literature is awash with bildungsromane, or ‘novels of formation’ in which a young person makes a physical, spiritual, moral or emotional journey and learns about themselves, the world, or Life with a capital L (Boes, 2006). Examples include Little Women, The Catcher in the Rye, and...