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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101782

Femke Vandenberg , Michaël Berghman

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Socially distanced artistic careers: Professional social interactions in early, established, and late career stages during COVID-19 社交距离远的艺术职业：新冠肺炎期间职业生涯早期、确立和后期的专业社交互动

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101769

Rachel Skaggs

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The bookshelf's ‘magic circle’: An ethnographic study of classificatory encounters in library spaces 书架的 "魔法圈"：图书馆空间中分类相遇的人种学研究

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101888

Katherine Quinn

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Artistic referencing and emergent standards of peer recognition in Hollywood, 1930–2000 1930-2000 年好莱坞的艺术参考和新出现的同行认可标准

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101887

Katharina Burgdorf

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“Just like friends”: Chinese young adults’ interpretation of parent–child relationships on American TV shows "就像朋友一样"：中国年轻人对美剧中亲子关系的解读

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101882

Yang Gao

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Seeing is believing: Performing transparency in the informal organic market in China 眼见为实：中国非正规有机市场的透明度表现

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101886

Shumeng Li

{"title":"Seeing is believing: Performing transparency in the informal organic market in China","authors":"Shumeng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how intermediary organizations use both organizational and interpersonal scripts to perform face-to-face transparency in the informal organic market in China. These performances constitute a form of organizational relational work that has the following consequences: (1) framing the relationships between intermediary organizations and consumers as trustworthy by demonstrating the former's competence and honesty; (2) making consumers prioritize long-term trustworthy partnerships over the quality of a single product. The organizational relational work sustains transactions despite quality uncertainty. However, when this performative transparency is found by consumers not reflecting the actual production process, it spoils established trust. This case illustrates how organizational relational work stabilizes transactions amidst market uncertainty by building consumers’ trust in organizational-level institutions. It also highlights the role of dramaturgy in enabling organizational relational work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101886"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000251/pdfft?md5=a5e05087654790325ac6d3ef0017d7b6&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000251-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140308944","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}

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Creating careers in the kingdom of content. The platform-dependence and platform-ambivalence of digital cultural labour in Norway 在内容王国创造职业生涯。挪威数字文化劳动的平台依赖性和平台矛盾性

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101885

Ole Marius Hylland, Heidi Stavrum, Mari T. Heian, Bård Kleppe, Kristine P. Miland

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Farewell on screen: Uncertainty in parasocial relationships and breakups with fictional media characters✰,✰✰ 银幕上的告别：寄生关系中的不确定性以及与虚构媒体角色的分手✰,✰✰。

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101874

Michelle Möri

{"title":"Farewell on screen: Uncertainty in parasocial relationships and breakups with fictional media characters✰,✰✰","authors":"Michelle Möri","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Viewers form enduring bonds, or parasocial relationships (PSRs), with media characters. They suffer breakup distress when such relationships are dissolved and show emotional reactions similar to those from the dissolution of social relationships. Alongside definite and temporary breakups, this paper introduces the term <em>uncertain breakup</em>, and the three breakup types are analyzed and compared. In a two-survey study with viewers of five shows (<em>Emily in Paris, Bridgerton, Peaky Blinders, Shadow and Bone, Never Have I Ever</em>), the three parasocial breakup types were analyzed in Study I with independent samples and with dependent samples in Study II, which also considered the behavioral effects of parasocial breakups. The results show that PSRs positively predict viewers’ temporary, uncertain, and definite breakup distress and subsequent PSRs after a breakup. The three types of breakup distress differ regarding, for example, their moderation of viewers’ level of loneliness or their behavioral effects. The results’ implications are discussed for future research on PSRs and their dissolution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101874"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000135/pdfft?md5=dfe8c430fc81af0b7e27a143ddeb5999&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000135-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142010","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}

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From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality 通过关系性从宏源到微源

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868

Omar Lizardo

{"title":"From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality","authors":"Omar Lizardo","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent work in the sociology of taste has begun to grapple with the relational properties of traditional survey-based data using techniques inspired by network analysis. Despite productive results from this endeavor, critics rightly question the face and ecological validity of the vague macrogenre labels included in standard arts participation surveys (e.g., Classical, Rock, Rap) which feed into these novel methods. In this paper, I propose a link-clustering approach for discovering focused microgenres from standard survey-based information on cultural tastes, exploiting the underlying relational patterns realized by the indirect connectivity structure of genres (via people) in a two-mode network. The link-clustering approach partially answers two of the challenges of macrogenre critics: The fact that actual genres are overlapping and not crisply bounded and that there is hidden heterogeneity within the broad labels we usually focus on. To showcase the fruitfulness of the proposed approach, I engage in two “case studies” featuring the vague macro genres of “Heavy Metal” and “Latin/Salsa” music and show the focused microgenres produced by the link clustering procedure are segmented in ways that help resolve puzzles that have emerged in previous work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101868"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X2400007X/pdfft?md5=a8698df57907960752facbc1e7528bd5&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X2400007X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139694015","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}

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Coagents as intermediaries in the book industry 作为图书业中介的凝固剂

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Poetics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101867

Paul Crosby, Jordi McKenzie

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