“What Was Once Science Fiction is Now Social Media”: The narrative power of social media in dystopian science fiction novels and the intervention these science fiction narratives place on our everyday life and social media use.
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2024-03-01
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In this thesis, I am analysing six science fiction novels whose plot is centered around growing social media and social media usage on their narrative power, specifically related to the social media, and how through this narrative power the utopian and dystopian effects of the science fiction novels are represented in the novels. In close reading the novels, I have found that the narrative power is able to represent not only through the power given to the users on the platform, but also in the power held over the users by the tech CEOs. In putting this next to the ideas of dystopias and utopias, the narrative power through social media is comparable to the power characters are given or taken away in utopias and dystopias. Through this analysis, clear parallels can be drawn between the utopias and dystopias within the novels and the everchanging world around us in which social media has taken on a central role in society.
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