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{"title":"Models of generating cultural authority: Academics and journalists on a digital platform","authors":"Shira Zilberstein","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the motivations and practices of information professions using a digital platform, with a focus on expanding definitions of cultural authority. While prior research has explored models such as citizen science and engaged journalism, which propose changes in the relationships between information producers, consumers, and content, limited attention has been given to professionals' practices and motivations for adopting different models. To address this gap, I conducted 78 interviews with information professionals who write digital newsletters and analyzed their professional backgrounds and newsletter texts. Through this analysis, four dominant models of generating cultural authority emerged, which are linked to how professionals use digital platforms, as well as their goals for information production. Professionals generate cultural authority as (1) hierarchical expertise to produce knowledge as a public good; (2) accountability and transparency to contest dominant discourses; (3) intimacy and trust to exercise creativity; and (4) the incorporation of positionality and multiple perspectives to foster community. The findings challenge the prevailing notion that professionals' practices are primarily influenced by access to capital, instead highlighting the significance of motivations and the redefinition of roles and goals in content production. By illuminating the shifting meanings of expertise and professionalism on new media platforms, the study contributes to ongoing debates about truth, value, public trust, and the role of information professionals in public life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101871"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X2400010X/pdfft?md5=7c537635e0841a477d3afc663e300c5b&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X2400010X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139682465","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":"Beyond the author: Artificial intelligence, creative writing and intellectual emancipation","authors":"Jack Tsao ,&nbsp;Collier Nogues","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores university students’ engagement with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools for creative writing and graphic storytelling, drawing on Jacques Rancière's philosophy of intellectual equality and emancipation. Qualitative data analysis from a co-curricular creative writing programme, including reflections, surveys, and focus-group interviews, reveals emerging artificial intelligence literacies and students’ improvisational aptitudes for interpreting, subverting, and transforming notions of authorship. Students decentred authorial attribution through the pragmatic adoption of the technology as a creative catalyst, negotiated creative conventions by adopting non-conventional communication strategies, and reconceptualised creativity as distributed across human and non-human agents. Our approach of student-driven learning for autonomous exploration, sense-making, and criticality with GenAI indicates the potential for promoting conditions for students to exercise intellectual equality and emancipation. The findings contribute to the understanding of authorship and creativity; begin to contour emerging GenAI literacies and competencies; and suggest that creative collaborations with GenAI may be a promising way to foster emancipatory practices in the classroom, while nurturing creative and critical skills.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101865"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000044/pdfft?md5=83dee22b2ae353a1824cf9795a7bd450&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000044-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139487221","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":"Exploring the prevalence of success stories in popular work-related television series: A content analysis","authors":"Sarah Devos ,&nbsp;Femke Konings ,&nbsp;Steven Eggermont ,&nbsp;Laura Vandenbosch","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This content analytical study (<em>N</em> = four series, 59 characters, and 2411 scenes) investigates how success stories are portrayed in work-related television series (i.e., television series centered on the working environment) that are available in several countries, namely <em>Suits, Grey's Anatomy, The Bold Type</em>, and <em>The Good Doctor</em>. Based on the ideas of <em>cultivation theory</em>, this study explores how such television series define (professional) success and whether the accomplishments portrayed in them adhere to the <em>malleability narrative</em> (i.e., a narrative in which success is portrayed as achievable by everyone provided they work hard for it). By analyzing the main and secondary characters, this study explores which character traits are associated with (professional) success and examines the presence of references to personal accountability and perseverance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101866"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000056/pdfft?md5=01b56ba52a77157bc37bef4506921181&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000056-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139487158","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":"The nested relationality of perceived legitimacy: Mapping taste hierarchies with granular digital traces","authors":"Massimo Airoldi","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101864","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101864","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article has a double purpose. On the one hand, it contributes to theories of cultural legitimacy and classification. Based on data about consumers’ music evaluations, it shows that taste hierarchies are configured as nested and relational classificatory systems. Nested, because rank systems of symbolic value are collectively recognized, reproduced, and negotiated by consumers not only at the level of genres, but also at lower, nested levels – e.g., sub-genre, artist, single artwork; relational, because the value attributed to music by consumers is ordinarily assessed and constructed through analogies and comparisons, and partly depends on the classifier's relative position in the social space. On the other hand, this paper makes a key methodological contribution: by analyzing large amounts of YouTube data through computational methods and in combination with survey data, it illustrates how the granularity of digital traces can advance sociological research on cultural categories, meaning structures and symbolic imaginaries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101864"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000032/pdfft?md5=d2c1e419ea44c77d622752eaf463a1f7&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000032-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139474522","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":"Uneven and combined consecration: The mainstream, duplicate, and workaround institutions of jazz","authors":"Barış Büyükokutan","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I find that jazz gained a toehold in U.S. concert halls, music awards, festivals, and schools in the 1930s, 60s, 70s or 80s. I reconcile this with extant research, which identifies the 1940s and 50s as the crucial moment for jazz, by linking the processes that transpired in the sites I examine to those past research has focused on. During the 1940s and the 50s, facing resistance in the mainstream institutions I highlight, advocates of jazz built alternative institutions that duplicated or worked around the mainstream; some of these then helped jazz enlarge its mainstream foothold. Based on these findings, I extend the conceptualization of consecration as ongoing permanent revolution: in already settled fields, the consecration of new, racially stigmatized art forms may follow from uneven and combined development across multiple institutional sites, constituting a string of loosely-related events of varying intensity. A reassessment of the highbrow-lowbrow scheme follows.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101863"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000020/pdfft?md5=ec26619d7c327a90a1571934fe62d786&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000020-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139480053","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":"The psychological origins of science fiction","authors":"Edgar Dubourg,&nbsp;Valentin Thouzeau,&nbsp;Nicolas Baumard","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Science fiction has become very popular across all mediatic forms (e.g., in short stories, in novels, in movies, in TV series). The cultural success of this genre is both geographically widespread and rather recent in history. Although such observations seem consensual, many problems remain and are debated in science fiction study, notably (1) the defining characteristics of the genre, (2) the reasons for its late emergence, and (3) the interindividual variability of its appeal. Previous attempts to solve such puzzles focused on proximate How-questions (e.g., How did the genre emerge?). The article presents a contribution from cognitive and evolutionary sciences, which make it possible to ask Why-questions (e.g., Why did the genre emerge?). We hypothesize that science fiction, with its emphasis on new and innovative features (e.g., new civilizations, innovative technologies, futuristic worlds), appeals to the human desire for new abstract information. We review research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral ecology, showing that some specialized biological mechanisms in human cognition prompt exploratory preferences for such information. We show that this hypothesis can explain (1) why science fiction works are perceived as homogenous and different from works of fiction of other genres, (2) why science fiction emerged and became culturally successful rather late in literary history, and (3) why the preference for science fiction varies across time, across space, and across individuals. We provide empirical testable predictions that should be tested in the future to confirm this hypothesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101862"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000019/pdfft?md5=fb385fc0197c42c55103c4dd0a5411b5&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X24000019-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139436432","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":"Party rocking: Exploring the relationship between music preference, partisanship, and political attitudes","authors":"Brianna N. Mack ,&nbsp;Teresa R. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Music and politics have been interconnected for centuries, and it is difficult to explain a political event without mentioning the subsequent music creation and vice versa; examples include anti-war music during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, a shift to country music with patriotic undertones after 9/11, and so on (<span>Kay, 2017</span>). Preliminary research suggests that there could be a connection between political ideologies and liking genres of music, but it is relatively outdated (<span>Fox and Williams 1974</span>). There is research surrounding how political polarization contributes to opposing attitudes and preferences, and how music has different origins and patterns, but there is no concrete knowledge of a direct relationship between political polarization and musical genres that have stark sonic differences. Using an original survey, this project seeks to identify the relationship between partisanship and music preferences and what effect, if any, said relationship has on political attitudes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101861"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X23001018/pdfft?md5=ea6ac8602aa7af0e81193b8000750996&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X23001018-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139041676","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":"The classed trajectory of media habitus: Television time and socioeconomic status from adolescence to adulthood","authors":"Annaliese Grant","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite a wealth of research about unequal transitions to adulthood in the U.S., we know less about how classed daily life (or “habitus”) carries with individuals as they age and experience socioeconomic mobility. Taking weekly time spent watching television as a form of class habitus, this research traces the trajectories of television time from adolescence to adulthood using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (<em>N</em> = 4,884). Using latent class growth analysis, I find four trajectories of TV time: Falling Watchers (8 %), Rising Watchers (2 %), Rise and Fall Watchers (3 %), and Steady Watchers (86 %). Findings both support and complicate previous understandings of habitus over time. Adolescent socioeconomic measures and socioeconomic mobility were associated with TV trajectory. While the majority of individuals maintained TV time across the life course, TV time habits could also change as individuals aged and these changes were more likely among those who have lower-class experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101860"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X23001006/pdfft?md5=7b0f1dc240e3b88a60757aa03940ff75&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X23001006-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138769940","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":"From chart-topper to gold record: The effects of Billboard chart popularity on RIAA gold or platinum certification of #1 R&B/Hip-Hop singles in the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras, 1977–2008","authors":"Vincent M. Carter","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101858","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Introduction&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this paper was to examine the effects of genre-specific and mainstream Billboard chart popularity on RIAA gold or platinum certification of #1 R&amp;B/Hip-Hop singles in the Pre-SoundScan (1977–1992) and SoundScan (1993–2008) eras. The first aim was to determine if there were any statistically significant differences in genre-specific and mainstream popularity between singles that achieved RIAA gold or platinum certification and those that did not reach that pinnacle in both eras. The second aim assessed the relative predictive power of genre-specific and mainstream popularity on RIAA gold or platinum certification of #1 R&amp;B/Hip-Hop singles in the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras while controlling for established brand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Methods&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this comparative assessment of the relationships between Billboard chart data and RIAA gold/platinum certification data in the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras, genre-specific popularity was measured by total weeks at #1 on Billboard's R&amp;B/Hip-Hop charts and total weeks on the charts regardless of position. Mainstream popularity was evaluated with peak position on Billboard's Pop charts. The established brand construct was assessed with the artist's total prior #1 R&amp;B/Hip-Hop singles and total prior #1s by the record label.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Results&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Mann–Whitney U test revealed statistically significant differences in mainstream popularity between gold or platinum singles and non-gold or platinum singles in both the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras. Statistically significant differences in genre-specific popularity were also observed in both periods, but not in the hypothesized direction in the SoundScan era. A binary logistic regression model demonstrated that the two popularity constructs, while controlling for established brand, predicted RIAA gold or platinum certification of #1 R&amp;B/Hip-Hop singles in both the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras. The model better predicted gold or platinum certification in the Pre-SoundScan era. The most powerful predictor was mainstream popularity in both eras.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gold or platinum certified #1 R&amp;B/Hip-Hop singles had a significantly higher peak position on the mainstream Pop charts than those not certified gold or platinum in both the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras. When observing genre-specific popularity, gold or platinum singles spent significantly more total weeks on the R&amp;B/Hip-Hop charts than non-gold or platinum singles in the Pre-SoundScan era. In contrast, the reverse was observed in the SoundScan era. Mainstream popularity, as measured by peak position on the Pop charts, and genre-specific popularity, as measured by total weeks on the R&amp;B/Hip-Hop charts, were good predictors of gold or platinum certification in both the Pre-SoundScan and SoundScan eras. The model was a better predictor of RIAA gold or platinum certification in the Pre-S","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101858"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X23000980/pdfft?md5=342d9b885930f88849dcbfcae84bef5e&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X23000980-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138559010","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":"“The poem has stayed with me”: Continued processing and impact from Shared Reading experiences of people living with cancer","authors":"Tine Riis Andersen ,&nbsp;Frank Hakemulder","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Encounters with literary texts can lead to deeply cherished memories, some of which readers may ascribe powerful and enduring functions to in terms of acquired life insights, behavioral changes, consolation, and well-being. The present article charts how texts relate to readers’ experiences and how these text-experiences are related to how they are remembered. In the context of a Shared Reading group for people living with cancer, a multiple-case study was conducted, tracing examples of enduring impressions and how these are perceived as transformative and valuable resources for the participants in coping with their disease. Qualitative and quantitative data from four readers were collected at different points in time and were analyzed through the grounded theory method and a temporality framework. The results clarify how, in the long run, literature, and in particular Shared Reading, can affect personal growth and resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101847"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X23000876/pdfft?md5=cde53becb0f96a65815f5966c3355659&pid=1-s2.0-S0304422X23000876-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138489959","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}