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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102019

Christine Delp

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“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques “如果NPR不认为这是一场危机，我不知道会发生什么”：记者如何利用数字平台对行业进行批评

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102007

Laura Garbes , Thomas Marlow

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Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling 文化作为类别的配置：通过双回归模型分析同伴效应

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102014

Ronald L. Breiger , Alessandro Lomi , Francesca Pallotti

{"title":"Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling","authors":"Ronald L. Breiger , Alessandro Lomi , Francesca Pallotti","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we reimagine linear regression modeling as a relational method for cultural analysis. Drawing on the dual-to-regression analytic approach (Schoon, Melamed & Breiger, 2024), we argue that the fundamental building blocks in a regression equation are not single variables, but configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases. In a study of peer effects and achievement in an academic institution, we show how the regression model itself may be understood as positing a network of pairwise influence relations among social actors that produces the outcome as modeled by the regression. Moreover, this network is appropriate for studying homophily (the tendency for individuals with similar characteristics to have social network connections). We push the new, case-oriented thinking about the regression model of Schoon et al. by incorporating information on networks of social relations connecting the cases. We find that, when profile similarity boosts academic performance, high-density social network clusters are discovered. We demonstrate that it is sometimes useful to consider configurations of cases as the “variables” in a regression model. We argue that this methodological innovation has a distinctive pragmatic value and strong theoretical motivation in the specific empirical context of our study, and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 102014"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148016","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}

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Is fiction a remedy for our wish to live many lives? Testing a popular assumption among contemporary readers 小说是我们想活很多次的愿望的一种补救方法吗？验证了当代读者的一个普遍假设

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102018

Cristina Loi

{"title":"Is fiction a remedy for our wish to live many lives? Testing a popular assumption among contemporary readers","authors":"Cristina Loi","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A widespread assumption about the intrinsic function of reading fiction is that it allows us to live other lives beyond our own, satisfying our need to experience alternative identities. This claim is not only recurring among some of the most quoted statements made by literary authors (Eco, 1991; Martin, 20,111; Vargas Llosa, 1984), but it is also at the core of theories within media psychology and literary studies that focus on fundamental motivations for engaging with narratives (TEBOTS, Slater et al., 2014; Storyworld Possible Selves, Martínez, 2014). This study investigates whether this motivation for reading is part of the conscious perception of avid readers, in a comprehensive sample of various contemporary reading practices (books, digital fiction, and Wattpad). In a within-subjects design with an indirect approach, readers (<em>N</em> = 498) were presented with two short literary excerpts (one on the theme of unrealized possibilities and one unrelated “control” excerpt) via an online survey. They were asked to elaborate freely on their immediate reactions and to complete a measure for individual differences on their “sense of possibility” (Musil, 1965), operationalized through the Maximization and Regret (Schwartz et al., 2002) personality traits. Results obtained with a mixed-methods content analysis show that individuals with an active sense of possibility are significantly more likely to report that they regularly experience feelings of longing towards their alternative lives. Additionally, within this subset of readers, 34.5 % also spontaneously mentioned that they read fiction in order to satisfy this longing because it allows them to assume alternative identities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 102018"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144213216","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}

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Mentioning the unmentionable: Perception of opportunities, agency, emotions, and identity in Iranian resistance rap prior and during the women, life, freedom uprisings 提及不可提及之事：在妇女、生命、自由起义之前和期间，伊朗抵抗说唱对机会、代理、情感和身份的感知

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102020

Danial Vahabli

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Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature 文学审美体验中的媒介、形态与动机：文学听觉与视觉接受探索

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021

Lukas Kosch , Günther Stocker , Annika Ahrens-Schwabe , Hajo Boomgaarden

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Cancel like you mean it! dual processes, dual attitudes, and moral hypocrisy in cancel culture 你是认真的取消！取消文化中的双重过程、双重态度与道德虚伪

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102023

Andreas Tutić , Sascha Grehl

{"title":"Cancel like you mean it! dual processes, dual attitudes, and moral hypocrisy in cancel culture","authors":"Andreas Tutić , Sascha Grehl","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the cognitive processes underlying cancel culture through the lens of the dual-process perspective, which distinguishes between intuitive (Type 1) and reflective (Type 2) modes of thinking. Using a survey experiment with an experimental manipulation of decision-making mode, we examine how politically incorrect statements about immigration and climate change influence canceling decisions. Both explicit and implicit attitudes towards xenophobia and climate change were measured to understand their impact on canceling behaviors. Our findings show that politically incorrect statements lead to higher rates of canceling in the reflective condition compared to the intuitive condition, with explicit attitudes playing a stronger role in reflective decision-making. Importantly, the discrepancy between implicit and explicit attitudes not only shapes the treatment effect of decision-making mode but also reveals patterns of moral hypocrisy. Under reflective conditions, individuals often cancel others to conform to social norms, even when their implicit attitudes conflict with these public actions. This highlights the complex interplay between cognition, social norms, and moral judgment in cancel culture, where reflective thinking may lead to performative rather than genuine moral behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 102023"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597144","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}

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Duality and value realism 二元性与价值现实主义

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102002

Kyle Puetz

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Case for ecumenical use of network and geometric data analyses in mapping of cultural spaces: Illustration of contemporary French-speaking Swiss theatrical productions 文化空间制图中网络和几何数据分析的普遍使用案例：当代法语瑞士戏剧作品的例证

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101999

Pierre Bataille , Marc Perrenoud , Robin Casse , Carole Christe , Mathias Rota

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Bach, Beethoven and Brahms again? A computational view on the de facto canon of classical orchestral music in Germany and the USA at the beginning of the 21st century 还是巴赫、贝多芬和勃拉姆斯？对21世纪初德国和美国古典管弦乐事实上的经典的计算观点

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Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102004

Markus Radke , Dr. Steffen Lepa , Melissa Panlasigui

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