The Generative Mechanism of Online Narratives and the Intertextuality of Their Group Communication

The complexity of online narratives and their important influence on events,attitudes,and emotions in society make visible certain limitations in the explication of such narratives found in traditional narrative theory.Their generative mechanism provides the logical starting point for understanding online communication.Event correlatives,text assemblage and specific texts,as the organic structure of online narratives,shape the intertextual existence and dynamic accumulation of the online text.A universal multidirectional co-construction forms around event correlatives and between specific texts and the pre-text,post-text and synchronous text within the text assemblage,while the textual object,the communicating subject and the online group communication context together build up the interpretive system of online narrative meanings.The generative mechanism and vitality of online narratives not only provide guarantees for the active nature of online communication,but also become a huge variable in social development,profoundly influencing social communication and even our way of thinking.

Sport Participation and Community Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Urban Communities

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between sport and community by examining the role played by sports participation in community engagement and community capacity building in disadvantaged urban communities.From a conceptual standpoint,the study is based on the sociological theory of the community and Community Capacity Building(CCB)theory,which provide overviews of the concept of community and community capacity and its characteristics.Four disadvantaged urban communities were investigated.Two of these communities had sports programs,while the other two did not.The online questionnaire methodology was adopted to assess the socio-demographic characteristics and community engagement of the participants(knowledge of programs and participation in community activities),and subsequently,an analysis of the online social media narratives of the community members themselves was developed to measure the characteristics of their community capacity building.We found that community engagement and community capacity values were higher in the communities with sports programs.These findings are promising and suggest that approaches based on sports participation development could be fruitful,particularly in disadvantaged communities.