American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Identity emerges through the stories individuals and communities create to interpret experiences, relationships, and social realities. Rather than serving solely as a means of communication, narratives provide a framework for constructing, expressing, and reshaping the self across changing cultural and technological environments. This article examines the relationship between narrative and identity by integrating perspectives from philosophy, linguistics, communication studies, psychology, and translation studies. Attention is given to digital platforms, where online participation has transformed identity into an ongoing and interactive process. Social networking environments such as X and Facebook enable users to present, revise, and negotiate multiple identities through posts, conversations, and shared content, while simultaneously contributing to broader collective narratives. The study also considers the methodological complexities associated with investigating fragmented, multimodal, and rapidly evolving digital narratives, highlighting the need for research approaches that capture their dynamic nature. By bringing together contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship, the article demonstrates that narratives remain fundamental to understanding how personal and collective identities are continuously constructed, interpreted, and redefined in both physical and digital contexts.