Lobna Hassan, Sebastian Deterding, J. Harviainen, Juho Hamari
Abstract:Post-truth politics have thrived in the shape of fake news and the feeding of divisive emotional narratives. While stories with strong emotional appeal can mobilize, their current post-truth form erodes the ideals of democracy. Some have called to counter the post-truth populism with evidence-based participation, both online and offline. However, such initiatives overlook that human cognition is constitutively narrative and emotional and so are practices of deliberative, participatory democracy. A more viable strategy is to embrace emotional narratives and to mobilize civic participation in forms aligned with democratic ideals through evidence-based storification and gamification. As such, the attraction to emotional narratives becomes a positive force toward evidence-based engagement. To further strengthen the implementation of evidence-based, narrativist, deliberative democracy, we employ and propose the analytical frameworks of (1) storification, the use of explicit emotional narrative for engagement purposes; and (2) embodied narratives, the implicit narratives conveyed by the very existence of narratives. Accordingly, we discuss participation initiatives that highlight the potential of these analytical and design frameworks in positively influencing civic engagement.
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{"title":"Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory by Daniel Punday (review)","authors":"Jan Baetens.","doi":"10.1353/stw.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/stw.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132846810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Earlier fusings of cognitive science and narratology have highlighted mindreading (the theory of mind) as a key ability that is engaged while reading, viewing, or composing narratives. Mindreading helps us understand an agent's actions within a given scene or event. But something else is required to understand such actions across the span of a whole text, to track the connections among even non-consecutive events—the text's global coherence—that may have underspecified causes. I suggest that mental time travel into the past (episodic memory) and future (foresight) is the missing ingredient. If so, this has implications for both cognitive science and narratology. A text that requires mindreading but that does not evince global coherence, and hence does not require mental time travel, is like a disjointed dream sequence. A text that does evince global coherence, and so engages mental time travel, but that does not require proficient mindreading is a purely expository text. A text that is totally globally coherent and where all the events are explicable in terms of agents' actions will fully engage mindreading and mental time travel: a paradigmatic narrative, ubiquitous in popular genres like crime novels, sitcoms and superhero movies.
{"title":"Narrative: Agents Acting at a Distance","authors":"J. Freestone","doi":"10.1353/stw.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/stw.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Earlier fusings of cognitive science and narratology have highlighted mindreading (the theory of mind) as a key ability that is engaged while reading, viewing, or composing narratives. Mindreading helps us understand an agent's actions within a given scene or event. But something else is required to understand such actions across the span of a whole text, to track the connections among even non-consecutive events—the text's global coherence—that may have underspecified causes. I suggest that mental time travel into the past (episodic memory) and future (foresight) is the missing ingredient. If so, this has implications for both cognitive science and narratology. A text that requires mindreading but that does not evince global coherence, and hence does not require mental time travel, is like a disjointed dream sequence. A text that does evince global coherence, and so engages mental time travel, but that does not require proficient mindreading is a purely expository text. A text that is totally globally coherent and where all the events are explicable in terms of agents' actions will fully engage mindreading and mental time travel: a paradigmatic narrative, ubiquitous in popular genres like crime novels, sitcoms and superhero movies.","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129698742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This contribution explores the relationship between signs of violence and their implications. It poses questions about how and to what extent these signs narrate stories, the effectiveness of the representation of violence through both images and narratives, and finally the relationship between bodily signs of experienced violence and justice. The starting point of the terrain for exploration can be summarized in two broad categories of inquiry, each corresponding with a section of this paper. I proceed in three steps. To begin, I focus on the representation of violence in both images and words. The first section argues that such violence can be represented in a way that promotes justice. The second extends this inquiry to the nature and ethical scope of (narrative) representation, raising some basic questions about its legitimacy and identifying one of its most important aims: the need to resist transience in order to seek justice. The third section offers a conceptual schema and some keywords that help sketch possible responses to such entangled questions.
{"title":"Ethical Issues on Narrating and Representing Signs of Violence","authors":"S. Pierosara","doi":"10.1353/stw.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/stw.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This contribution explores the relationship between signs of violence and their implications. It poses questions about how and to what extent these signs narrate stories, the effectiveness of the representation of violence through both images and narratives, and finally the relationship between bodily signs of experienced violence and justice. The starting point of the terrain for exploration can be summarized in two broad categories of inquiry, each corresponding with a section of this paper. I proceed in three steps. To begin, I focus on the representation of violence in both images and words. The first section argues that such violence can be represented in a way that promotes justice. The second extends this inquiry to the nature and ethical scope of (narrative) representation, raising some basic questions about its legitimacy and identifying one of its most important aims: the need to resist transience in order to seek justice. The third section offers a conceptual schema and some keywords that help sketch possible responses to such entangled questions.","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129664090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0047
Avril Tynan
{"title":"Winding Down, Living On: The Future in Old Age","authors":"Avril Tynan","doi":"10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120996813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0001
Klaus Speidel
{"title":"Pictorial Narrative with Tension and Relief: A Story with Complication and Resolution in a Single Picture","authors":"Klaus Speidel","doi":"10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133002399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0071
Julia E. Case
{"title":"Our Bodies, Our Incoherent Selves: Games and Shifting Concepts of Identity and Narrative in Contemporary Storytelling","authors":"Julia E. Case","doi":"10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130092769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0021
David Ciccoricco
{"title":"How to Play a Parable","authors":"David Ciccoricco","doi":"10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126639173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0095
Marta-Laura Cenedese
{"title":"(Instrumental) Narratives of Postcolonial Rememory: Intersectionality and Multidirectional Memory","authors":"Marta-Laura Cenedese","doi":"10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.10.1-2.0095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"1023 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131449919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Medicine in Finland","authors":"Anna Ovaska","doi":"10.1353/stw.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/stw.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424412,"journal":{"name":"Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128996097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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