PoeticsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101594
Hiro Saito
{"title":"The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan's nuclear safety failure","authors":"Hiro Saito","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Fukushima nuclear disaster was profoundly a man-made one, resulting from the organizational failure of nuclear emergency preparedness. To fully understand the cause of this disaster, I propose to extend an organizational perspective on disasters into a macro-institutional perspective on disaster preparedness. To this end, I borrow from science and technology studies the concepts of \"sociotechnical imaginary\" and \"civic epistemology\" to probe the deepest layers of meaning-making constitutive of disaster preparedness. I then apply these concepts to the history of nuclear energy in postwar Japan that was centered on the developmental state pursuing industrial transformation. Specifically, I illustrate how the \"pacifist imaginary\" emphasized positive contributions of \"the peaceful use of nuclear energy,\" legitimating a priori the promotion of nuclear power as a means of economic development; and how the \"technocratic epistemology\" invoked the superior competencies of state bureaucrats and expert advisers, legitimating post hoc their disregard for the possibility of a severe accident. The imaginary and epistemology thus enabled the developmental state to pursue pro-nuclear policy by securing acquiescence from the majority of citizens and discrediting the minority of antinuclear activists – until the earthquake and tsunami exposed the preparedness failure in March 2011.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101594"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X2100084X/pdfft?md5=531cec4e4cd8ddb48da62b0be69640a5&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X2100084X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48966895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101689
Yong Jin Park , Hoon Lee , S.M. Jones-Jang , Yu Won Oh
{"title":"Digital assistants: Inequalities and social context of access, use, and perceptual understanding","authors":"Yong Jin Park , Hoon Lee , S.M. Jones-Jang , Yu Won Oh","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study focuses on digital divide in the context of access, use, and perceptual understanding of digital assistants. We pay particular attention to inequalities of perceptual outcomes that may be triggered by the first-(access) and second-level (use) divides. We extend this insight to the level of perceptual understanding and investigate how the understanding of various personalized AI-related applications—as manifested via the consumption of functional and informational features of digital assistants—vary depending on access and use. Our analyses of two U.S. national surveys reveal the first and second divides, such that those in higher status (higher income) enjoy higher access and use. Then, we also find related perceptual gaps along the line of socio-demographics, as the pattern was evident for education in interaction with other demographic backgrounds. That is, there were varying degrees of the understanding of algorithmic misjudgment, bias in recommended content, or data surveillance, while users with lower social status tended to easily overlook those risks for their excitement and convenience of AI-enabled devices. We argue that inequalities operate in terms of material (access/use) as well as socio-cultural (perceptual understanding) bases, suggesting how digital opportunities instigated by digital assistants may not be built on levelled grounds and continue to consolidate and reproduce existing inequalities in recursive ways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101689"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49544931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101682
Bin Xu , Ming-Cheng M. Lo
{"title":"Toward a cultural sociology of disaster: Introduction","authors":"Bin Xu , Ming-Cheng M. Lo","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101682","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101682"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X22000420/pdfft?md5=3f2f3f4180b1e1c3e5e0cb979848501c&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X22000420-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101668
Z.M. Kirgil, A. Voyer
{"title":"“Do your part: Stay apart”: Collective intentionality and collective (in)action in US governor's COVID-19 press conferences","authors":"Z.M. Kirgil, A. Voyer","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This mixed-methods study examines how political leaders mobilize collective intentionality during the COVID-19 pandemic in nine US States, and how collective intentionality differs across republican and democratic administrations. The results of our computational and qualitative analyses show that i) political leaders establish collective intentionality by emphasizing unity, vulnerability, action, and community boundaries; ii) political leaders’ call to collective action clashes with the inaction required by health guidelines; iii) social inequalities received little attention across all states compared to other themes; and iv) collective intentionality in democratic administrations is linked to individuals’ agency and actions, suggesting a bottom-up approach. Conversely, in republican administrations individuals’ contributions are downplayed compared to work and state-level action, indicating a top-down approach. This study demonstrates the theoretical and empirical value of collective intentionality in sociological research, and contributes to a better understanding of leadership and prosociality in times of crisis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101668"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X22000304/pdfft?md5=6f9654e2c98c17f36031339c4a04093c&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X22000304-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101664
Jesús Bermejo-Berros , Jaime Lopez-Diez , Miguel Angel Gil Martínez
{"title":"Inducing narrative tension in the viewer through suspense, surprise, and curiosity","authors":"Jesús Bermejo-Berros , Jaime Lopez-Diez , Miguel Angel Gil Martínez","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research into narrative tension is of interest in terms of the progress of knowledge of the processes and mechanisms by which stories are received and enjoyed. We have created four versions of an audiovisual story with three different structures of fiction (suspense, surprise, curiosity) and one of non-fiction. We have investigated the effects of the narrative tension of these stories with four groups of subjects (N=94). The results show that the organization of the stories, depending on their structures of suspense, surprise, or curiosity, induces narrative tension, while the non-fictional story, induces cognitive and affective effects of another kind. Narrative tension appears during narrative progression. It is manifested by cognitive-affective responses that include anticipations, diagnoses, retrospections, and emotions. In narrative tension, curiosity plays a triggering and organizing role in suspense and surprise. The emotions and cognitions that result from narrative tension during plot construction underpin the experience of enjoyment. The Multidimensional Narrative Tension Theory of Enjoyment that emerges from this research allows establishing connections between narrative theory concerned with narrative progression and plot, the psychology of interest, and the psychology of media enjoyment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 101664"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X22000262/pdfft?md5=9653b159455d4fa7cc411ab44e424185&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X22000262-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41416362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101614
Andreas Gebesmair, Astrid Ebner-Zarl, Christoph Musik
{"title":"Symbolic representations of cultural industries at content trade fairs: Bourdieu's “economic world reversed” revisited","authors":"Andreas Gebesmair, Astrid Ebner-Zarl, Christoph Musik","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>From business events such as content trade fairs, we can learn about the institutional logics of contemporary cultural industries. In our ethnographic fieldwork at six different trade fairs in three industries (book, music and TV), we identified five ways of legitimating the commercial production and distribution of cultural goods: cultural industries are represented as an idealized form of business, as art for art's sake, as innovation and technology, as entertainment and as a public sphere. Our findings both confirm and contradict Bourdieu's theory of cultural production fields. In accordance with Bourdieu's description of the field as a reversed economic world, we observed an industry which struggles to disguise ordinary economic transactions, such as negotiating deals, ordering services or making contracts. In contrast to Bourdieu, we do not find a strong homology between a position in the field and its symbolic representation. Rather, we observed that small enterprises from the restricted field of cultural production as well as large-scale producers and distributors of cultural goods use the same narratives to legitimate their practices. Borrowing from recent advancements in organizational institutionalism, we interpret the symbolic representations at trade fairs as a cultural toolkit from which people in the industry strategically choose in order to pursue their interests.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 101614"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X21001108/pdfft?md5=0500f6821e9ba86fe5d1afb580669dfd&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X21001108-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44296549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral and aesthetic consecration and higher status consumers’ tastes: The “good” food revolution","authors":"Shyon Baumann , Emily Huddart Kennedy , Josée Johnston","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101654","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101654","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on the tastes of higher status groups has long prioritized analysis of aesthetic preferences. However, recent work has brought more attention to the moral dimensions of tastes. In this paper, we investigate the intersection of morality and aesthetics in tastes. Drawing on survey data and focus groups, we investigate how aesthetic and moral concerns operate in the domain of food, and meat specifically. A latent class analysis identifies four orientations to food that differ in their emphasis on aesthetic versus moral concerns. We identify classes that we label pragmatism, aestheticism, moralism, and moral aestheticism . These orientations toward moral and aesthetic concerns in food are associated with economic capital, cultural capital, age, political ideology, race, and gender. Respondents with higher social status are most likely to hold the moral aestheticism orientation, which simultaneously upholds moral and aesthetic concerns. Analysis of focus group data brings the nature of each of these four orientations into sharper focus. Further survey analyses show these four orientations predict high status aesthetic preferences and moral orientations beyond food, and they also predict the holding of symbolic and social boundaries related to moral judgments in food. We argue that research on high status cultural consumption must conceptualize and measure moral consecration alongside aesthetic consecration in order to better understand the social stratification of tastes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 101654"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X22000110/pdfft?md5=6671324e0b082e2e3ed00283d5836d54&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X22000110-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49394636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101651
Jesse Tuominen , Eero Rantala , Hanna Reinikainen , Vilma Luoma-aho , Terhi-Anna Wilska
{"title":"The brighter side of materialism: Managing impressions on social media for higher social capital","authors":"Jesse Tuominen , Eero Rantala , Hanna Reinikainen , Vilma Luoma-aho , Terhi-Anna Wilska","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individuals adjust their behavior on social media to varying extent, and commonly in their idealized way. Most studies have focused on the problems associated with materialism and social media use, yet their potential positive contributions remain less clear. In fact, impression management holds potential for both negative and positive: it has been linked with materialistic attitudes, but also increased amounts of self-reported social capital. This study examines how young people's materialistic values connect with status-seeking impression management on social media, and subsequently to social capital, within the same model. Eight hundred Finnish participants aged 15–19 participated in our structured phone survey. We applied structural equation modeling to examine the connections between materialism, impression management, and online social capital. Our findings show that materialism is positively related to impression management, while impression management is positively associated with online social capital. Additionally, we found positive indirect effects between materialism and both bridging and bonding social capital through impression management. In sum, more materialistic young people who engaged in higher impression management had higher amounts of social capital.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 101651"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X22000080/pdfft?md5=17b4668a2a54ca49c083775ec6f9da71&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X22000080-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49215158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101687
Torgeir Uberg Naerland , John Magnus Dahl
{"title":"Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment","authors":"Torgeir Uberg Naerland , John Magnus Dahl","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Entertainment programming is an important means for public service media (PSM) to address minority audiences, and to fulfill their social mission vis-à-vis these groups. We argue that these efforts are plagued by a thin normative grounding, stopping short at vague notions of representation. In this article, we argue that a capabilities approach invites a much-needed reconsideration of the fundamental objectives of such entertainment-based representations. The article offers a first operationalization of the capabilities approach in the context of televised entertainment. First, we identify and qualify a set of basic capabilities that we propose PSM should promote to minority audiences through entertainment content. Second, through a case study from Norway involving focus group interviews of young immigrants, we demonstrate how entertainment can facilitate the promotion of such capabilities. On this ground, we discuss the implications of a capabilities perspective for PSM efforts to accommodate marginalized audiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 101687"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X2200047X/pdfft?md5=9d2f0cc36828e6c844df1e5bec5ec1eb&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X2200047X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44806623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoeticsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101662
Rasmus Henriksen Klokker, Mads Meier Jæger
{"title":"Family background and cultural lifestyles: Multigenerational associations","authors":"Rasmus Henriksen Klokker, Mads Meier Jæger","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Does family background link to cultural lifestyles beyond two generations? To address this question, we analyze three-generation data from Denmark with information on cultural consumption in the grandchild generation and information on economic, cultural, and social capital in the parent and grandparent generation. We report three key findings. First, we identify four cultural lifestyles in the grandchild generation (omnivore, middlebrow, popular, and inactive). Second, grandparents’ cultural capital is <em>directly</em> and positively associated with the likelihood that grandchildren exhibit the omnivorous lifestyle. Third, grandparents’ economic, cultural, and social capital also operate <em>indirectly</em> by being positively associated with parents’ cultural capital, which in turn is associated with the likelihood that grandchildren exhibit the omnivorous cultural lifestyle. Our results suggest that family background extends beyond two generations and that ancestors’ cultural capital has dynastic properties.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 101662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45495886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}