Media Love Stories: Narrative Analysis

The research problem belongs to the sphere of TV and paper journalism. The study is targeted at exploring media love stories, namely focusing on their narrative analysis. The project proposal pertains newly evolving investigations of love stories written by social network users. The investigation will reveal the peculiarities of media love stories, give their background, outline the tendencies, and identify the structure of the love narrative. The general purpose of the project is to reveal an invariant structure that is observed in all professional and custom media texts. The methods chosen and approaches used are to answer the above mentioned research questions in the course of interviews, the narrative analysis, and online surveys. A step-by-step procedure includes the narrative and frame inquiry, the qualitative analysis of media texts, as well as the method of semiotic analysis, and statistics. The results anticipated presuppose getting a comprehensive understanding of the narrative analysis, highlighting the specificity of the media narrative and the characteristics of love stories in professional media texts and in love stories composed by social network authors. The research will offer opportunities for further investigation of typical features of creative writing in the digital and media sphere.