The on-line screen can use sound at will, but currently places it as just another discrete disassociated element, ranking it comparatively at the level of sound in silent films. The film screen is kinetic, but the on-line screen is both kinetic and static, part textual, part visual, but never settled. Rather than kinetic the on-line screen could be described as 'unsettled'. To define narrative Narrative is a coherent flow, to a goal or purpose. It is to have a beginning, an end, and some excitement in between.
Human beings find narrative in just about anything.
It may be innate. Children racing sticks down a gutter are following a narrative. But finding any narrative in any on-line activity, is very difficult. But it's accidental, serendipitous and brief. A language is a code for meanings.