This graduate thesis titled "Metafictions in digital media and social self-awareness" deals with the analysis of the appearance of metafiction in digital media works. This paper contains an introduction to the world of metafiction in which are presented the most important aspects of this type of postmodernist approach to shaping narratives and the way it is represented in the digital age. Through a further detailed analysis of individual examples in categories of film, television series and videogames, the paper points to the way in which they deconstruct the notion of the conventional space of the media and how they move into the world of the consumer, where it is not their traditional place. In the last few years, there has been an intensive incorporation of metafiction into digital media, and through them, especially through the media of videogames, the self-awareness of fictional characters about the existence of a world outside their own is increasingly highlighted, thus the worlds of fiction and reality intertwine. The characters themselves within the narrative point to their consumptive understanding of their own confinement within the media in an interesting way, thus ''breaking the fourth wall'' where the characters are aware that there is a world outside their digitally limited sphere. Through the conducted research and analysis of this phenomenon, its direct link with human and social selfawareness, which interweaves its characteristics in digital media works, has been confirmed. They directly mirror the social mentality through which we can read the patterns of modern society and its social characteristics. Through the analysis of metafictions, we can see clear messages that the media is now, in a somewhat unconventional and layered way, sending to society, and which at the same time indicate and shape its very self-awareness.