Abstract:

The research on new media has not paid enough attention to how users understand

the fragmented but complex new media texts presented in front of them. For example， blog posts

often do not deliver all the elements and information that constitute the traditional narrative; so their

representation spaces are usually vague and unspecific. Only through the creative reading users

can gradually transform and understand the superficial and incomplete narratives， which finally

enable coherent and meaningful narratives. This paper takes Weibo news as an example to illustrate

the narrative structure characteristics and the narrative spaces constructed by the Weibo texts， and

especially focusing on the necessity of the user’s subjectivity involved in the Weibo news narrative，

so as to provide a way of understanding the narrative mechanism of the new media texts. 

Key words:

Weibo news Narrative space User participation New media Sense making

Digital storytelling

CLC Number: 

• G239