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Part III. Digital Media and Storytelling in Research ] 93 representational specificities of each medium. In the analysis of literary and film narratives, a new dimension can be opened up by examining corporeal narratology, which deals with the concept of the narrative body (Kerchy, 2009), but approaches such as the exploration of intertextualities (Orosz, 2003; Lanszki, 2016b) and the study of metanarratives (Orosz, 2003) may also prove relevant. Narrative structures can also provide valuable insights into interdisciplinary boundaries that lie at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. Cultural anthropology focuses on contemporary narratives, while ethnography and history use narratives from the past to map the patterns of behavior, habits, and rituals of micro-communities at particular points in time. The ethnographic textual analysis of narratives featuring superstitions has provided important data on the magical thinking and customs of medieval people (Pécs, 2012). In addition, the study of earlier narratives is useful for any research that aims to explore the historical dimension of a topic such as institutional history and life history in education and art history, or performance reconstruction in the performing arts, which also analyzes musical scores, costumes, set design and reviews. Primary sources may include letters, newspaper articles, recorded jokes, gossip, transcripts of court hearings, diaries, laws, internal organizational decisions, or even artifacts. The wealth of resources resulting from media convergence allows media studies to analyze narratives in a variety of formats. One research direction which is relevant in this regard is the genre analysis of narrative formats. Csaszi (2010) undertook a formal analysis of a single episode of a famous Hungarian talk show about divorce, examining the interactions between the moderator and the invited guests. The researcher found that the fable behind the narrative emerged in the episode's opening confession, conflictunfolding reflective dialogues, and confrontations. Csaszi also identified Proppian features and Lévi-Strauss’ binary opposition pairs in the talk-show episode. In accordance with the logic of the narrative structure, moralistic moments were also presented: the losing party made a confession and the show delivered justice between the parties. Elements of film language (such as close-ups) also aimed to increase the audience's sympathy with the victims. Another area of media studies focuses on the portrayal of minority groups in the media. Cseke (2017) examined stigmatization by residence in written press products. Research data came from a textual analysis of a narrative interview with residents of a slum and a narrative analysis of press articles from different periods. For the press, the colony was valuable for its criminal narratives and stories of suffering, but these narratives increased the stigma towards the residents. The stigmatizing portrayal of the community in newspaper articles contributed to the negative image of the residents in society. The metropolitan squalor thematized in the narratives satisfied readers’ hunger for sensation and exoticism with themes of deviance and filth. Munk (2013) examined the portrayal of Romas in popular entertainment television genres
