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Reader-character identity interdependence: An empirical investigation of congruence in identity and reading 读者-角色身份相互依赖：身份与阅读一致性的实证研究

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2026.102075

Millicent Weber , Rachel Noorda

This article examines the mutually constitutive relationship between identity, social participation, and reading, through a survey of 3089 readers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia conducted in 2022. This is driven by an intersectional call to take seriously individualised experiences of identity including diverse and overlapping identities, consider multiple marginalisations, and interrogate normative modes of thinking. This connects to a commitment shared with other scholars of reading practice to undertake research that is simultaneously descriptive and critical. This forms the basis for our survey design, comprehending substantial engagement with readers’ reporting of their own reading practices. We work through multifaceted understandings of identity in our survey, and use this as the basis for examining specific patterns of identity formation through reading practice, and considering how individual experiences connect to larger systemic power dynamics. We find that all readers read for identification with the characters in the books that they read. However, readers who belong to multiply marginalised groups must go against the grain of dominant structures of representation to seek out opportunities for identification in their reading, and still also tend to read across dominant spaces of normativity, whereas readers who belong to dominant identity groups do not similarly read against the grain. Income and education complicate this by potentially dictating access to diverse books. Select readers were confronted by the survey’s interest in identity and reading; while a survey is inherently normative, interesting trends of counter-cultural pushback emerged in free-text spaces as readers navigated the limitations of the tool.

本文通过对美国、英国和澳大利亚的3089名读者于2022年进行的调查，探讨了身份、社会参与和阅读之间的相互构成关系。这是由一个交叉的呼吁推动的，即认真对待个性化的身份体验，包括多样化和重叠的身份，考虑多重边缘化，并质疑规范的思维模式。这与其他阅读实践学者的共同承诺有关，即同时进行描述性和批判性的研究。这构成了我们调查设计的基础，理解读者对他们自己的阅读实践的报告的实质性参与。在我们的调查中，我们对身份进行了多方面的理解，并以此为基础，通过阅读练习来研究身份形成的特定模式，并考虑个人经历如何与更大的系统权力动态联系起来。我们发现所有的读者都是为了认同书中的人物而阅读的。然而，属于多重边缘群体的读者必须反对主流的代表性结构，在阅读中寻找认同的机会，并且仍然倾向于在规范性的主导空间中阅读，而属于主流身份群体的读者则不会同样地反对这种结构。收入和受教育程度可能决定了获得不同书籍的途径，这使问题复杂化。选定的读者面对的是调查对身份和阅读的兴趣；虽然调查本身是规范的，但当读者在自由文本空间中导航该工具的局限性时，反文化抵制的有趣趋势出现了。

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Watching scripted fiction: Repertoires of co-viewing, time, and attention to scripted series and movies in Australia 观看有剧本的小说：澳大利亚人对有剧本的电视剧和电影的共同观看、时间和注意力

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102064

Annaliese Grant , Amanda D. Lotz

The experience of watching scripted series and movies has advanced profoundly in recent decades, but little research has investigated the implications for the social role of these forms of media. Drawing on a novel cross-sectional nationally representative survey of 2,020 Australian adults, this study uses latent class analysis to identify four distinct profiles of viewing scripted fiction. Our analysis explores the varied ways adults spend time with scripted content, devote varied levels of attention to that content, and view with others. We find four categories of viewer, with category membership significantly associated with respondent-rated importance of scripted fiction, knowing what to watch before turning on a viewing device, a number of characteristics of preferred content, and living alone. Though other demographic variables were significantly associated with membership in one category, demographic characteristics were not consistently significant across groups, suggesting these may not be the main drivers of viewing behavior.

近几十年来，观看有剧本的电视剧和电影的体验有了长足的进步，但很少有研究调查这些媒体形式对社会角色的影响。根据对2020名澳大利亚成年人进行的一项具有全国代表性的新颖横断面调查，本研究使用潜在类别分析来确定观看脚本小说的四种不同特征。我们的分析探讨了成年人花时间看脚本内容的不同方式，对这些内容投入不同程度的关注，并与他人一起观看。我们发现了四类观众，其中类别成员与受访者认为的脚本小说的重要性显著相关，在打开观看设备之前知道要看什么，喜欢的内容的一些特征，以及独自生活。虽然其他人口统计学变量与某一类别的成员关系显著，但人口统计学特征在不同群体中并不一致，这表明这些可能不是观看行为的主要驱动因素。

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Loot, legitimacy, and provenance: Intermediaries and the legitimation of looted cultural objects 掠夺、合法性和来源：被掠夺文物的中介和合法性

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102062

Isra Saymour

The trade of cultural heritage operates at the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate spaces. While provenance is widely accepted as a barrier to the trade of loot, a growing body of work finds it may enable loot to enter legitimate institutions. This study builds on literature on legitimacy and grey markets to investigate how intermediaries in the antiquities market use provenance to legitimize looted cultural heritage. Drawing on interviews with curators, dealers, and auctioneers and scripting analysis of institutional records, the study identifies three "legitimizing provenance practices": an accumulative market setting that encourages collection at all costs; exclusionary professional networks that protect permissive practices; and everyday obfuscation techniques that mask looted origins. These practices operate within a polarized landscape of competing "pro-loot" and "anti-loot" applications of provenance. This reconceptualizes provenance as a relational social process shaped by competing value systems and unequal power relations. Interpreting legitimacy and provenance through the lens of “loot” demonstrates how such practices perpetuate colonial systems of dispossession in contemporary forms.

文化遗产交易在合法和非法空间的边界上运作。虽然来源被广泛认为是赃物交易的障碍，但越来越多的研究发现，它可能使赃物进入合法机构。本研究以合法性和灰色市场的文献为基础，调查古董市场中的中介机构如何利用出处使被掠夺的文化遗产合法化。通过对策展人、交易商和拍卖商的访谈以及对机构记录的脚本分析，该研究确定了三种“合法化的来源实践”：一是鼓励不惜一切代价进行收藏的累积市场环境；保护宽容行为的排他性专业网络；日常的混淆技术掩盖了被掠夺的起源。这些做法是在“支持掠夺”和“反对掠夺”来源应用的两极分化环境中运作的。这将起源重新定义为一个由竞争的价值体系和不平等的权力关系形成的关系社会过程。通过“掠夺”的视角来解释合法性和来源，表明这种做法是如何以当代形式延续殖民剥夺制度的。

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Reading fiction about refugee children: Contact via narrative engagement improves attitudes towards immigration 阅读关于难民儿童的小说：通过叙事参与的接触改善了对移民的态度

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102061

Jessica E. Black

The purpose of this study was to extend the research on the potential of written fiction to decrease prejudice and improve attitudes towards outgroups in real life. Specifically, we wanted to determine whether reading fiction about refugees could change attitudes towards immigrants and beliefs about immigration policy, and, if so, whether the setting of the fictional world mattered. As such, in fall 2019, participants who had previously completed a pre-test were randomly assigned to read about a refugee from Nazi Germany, a refugee from Syria, or to a control group that completed the outcome measures first. Results indicate that reading fiction about refugees can improve attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy. We also wanted to explore how pre-existing individual differences predisposed readers to engage with stories and thus influence potential benefits from reading. As such, we tested a series of structural equation models that included trait empathy and narrative transportation. Empathy plays an important role in facilitating transportation, which in turn predicts attitude improvement. Pre-registration and materials are available at https://bit.ly/ReadingaboutRefugees, data at https://osf.io/rz58t and https://osf.io/7wqnr.

本研究的目的是扩展关于书面小说在现实生活中减少偏见和改善对外群体态度的潜力的研究。具体来说，我们想确定阅读关于难民的小说是否会改变对移民的态度和对移民政策的信念，如果是这样，虚构世界的背景是否重要。因此，在2019年秋季，之前完成预测试的参与者被随机分配到阅读来自纳粹德国的难民，来自叙利亚的难民，或者先完成结果测量的对照组。结果表明，阅读有关难民的小说可以改善对移民和移民政策的态度。我们还想探索先前存在的个体差异是如何使读者倾向于阅读故事，从而影响阅读的潜在好处的。因此，我们测试了一系列结构方程模型，包括特质共情和叙事转移。同理心在促进交通方面发挥着重要作用，而这反过来又预示着态度的改善。预注册和材料可在https://bit.ly/ReadingaboutRefugees上获得，数据可在https://osf.io/rz58t和https://osf.io/7wqnr上获得。

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Behind the book reviews: Enduring hierarchies of occurrence and unpredictable sentiments 在书评的背后：事件发生的持久等级和不可预测的情绪

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102063

Henrik Fürst , Murathan Kurfalı

Book reviews are instrumental in assessing the public value of literary works. However, the path to literary recognition, considering the factors influencing why certain books are reviewed, earn acclaim, or face criticism, remains unclear. Amid ongoing discussions around the “crisis of criticism,” the study scrutinizes this discourse and employs two regression analyses to examine the occurrence and sentiment of reviews for 9814 fiction books originally in Swedish and 8340 reviews from major Swedish newspapers (2001–2018). The sentiment of book reviews is determined through a novel approach with an automated pipeline incorporating state-of-the-art natural language processing models. The article reveals enduring institutional, cultural, and demographic hierarchies that shape literary recognition through the occurrence of reviews. Key factors include literary prestige and author youth, alongside ties to elite literary networks, publication by major houses, and focus on literary fiction or poetry. Conversely, older authors with numerous books, bestsellers, or a focus on children’s literature exhibit reduced review probabilities. While review occurrence is highly predictable, sentiment proves less so. Moreover, reviews generally express positivity despite frequent reviewer discord. Our findings suggest that books are selected for review based on external factors such as reputation and credentials, thereby reflecting persistent patterns of cultural consecration. This resonates with the idea of a “conservative revolution”, where established hierarchies maintain their influence, rather than indicating a “crisis in criticism”. Nevertheless, the unpredictability of review sentiment and the lack of consistent consensus on quality underscore a deeper evaluative uncertainty that transcends the more stable hierarchies governing review selection.

书评是评估文学作品的公共价值的工具。然而，考虑到影响某些书被评论、赢得赞誉或面临批评的因素，文学认可的途径仍不明朗。在围绕“批评危机”的持续讨论中，该研究仔细审视了这一话语，并采用两种回归分析来检查2001年至2018年期间9814本瑞典原创小说和8340本瑞典主要报纸的评论的发生和情绪。书评的情感是通过一种新颖的方法来确定的，该方法采用了结合最先进的自然语言处理模型的自动化管道。这篇文章揭示了通过评论的出现来塑造文学认知的持久的制度、文化和人口等级制度。关键因素包括文学声望和作者年轻，以及与精英文学网络的联系，主要出版社的出版，以及对文学小说或诗歌的关注。相反，拥有大量书籍、畅销书或专注于儿童文学的老作家的评论概率会降低。虽然审查的发生是高度可预测的，但情绪却不那么可预测。此外，尽管审稿人经常不和，但审稿人通常会表达积极的态度。我们的研究结果表明，选择书籍进行评论是基于外部因素，如声誉和证书，从而反映了文化奉献的持续模式。这与“保守革命”的理念相呼应，即既有等级制度保持其影响力，而不是表明“批评危机”。然而，评审情绪的不可预测性和对质量缺乏一致的共识强调了更深层次的评估不确定性，这种不确定性超越了管理评审选择的更稳定的层次结构。

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The embeddedness of marketing: Queer representation in advertisements by mainstream Chinese companies in mainland China, 2012–2023 营销的嵌入性：2012-2023年中国大陆主流企业广告中的酷儿表现

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102022

Xingshu Liu

Much of the existing research on corporate portrayals of queerness in advertising reflects liberal-centric assumptions, with limited attention to gay and lesbian marketing in tightly regulated media and cultural contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining queer representation in the mainstream marketing by Chinese companies in mainland China from 2012 to 2023. Capitalizing on public unfamiliarity with queer culture, mainstream Chinese companies strategically mobilized subcultural codes in their marketing practices. Gay and lesbian marketing in China has been shaped by gender norms, which are rooted in the country’s heteropatriarchal and patrilineal systems, resulting in distinct portrayals of gay men and lesbians in advertisements. The creative strategies and visual aesthetics of some advertisements were strongly influenced by the boom in danmei culture and the rise of the China-Chic economy. This research demonstrates how gay and lesbian marketing is embedded in the complex social fabric of contemporary China, highlighting the dynamics among state power, sociocultural norms, cultural trends, and multiple subcultural groups that mainstream marketing sought to engage.

现有的许多关于广告中企业对酷儿形象的研究反映了以自由主义为中心的假设，对严格监管的媒体和文化背景下的同性恋营销关注有限。本研究通过研究2012年至2023年中国大陆公司在主流营销中的酷儿代表来解决这一差距。利用公众对酷儿文化的不熟悉，中国主流企业在营销实践中策略性地调动了亚文化代码。中国的男女同性恋营销一直受到性别规范的影响，这些规范根植于中国的异性恋父系和父系制度，导致广告中男女同性恋的形象截然不同。一些广告的创作策略和视觉美学受到了旦美文化的兴盛和中国时尚经济的兴起的强烈影响。本研究展示了男女同性恋营销如何嵌入当代中国复杂的社会结构，突出了国家权力、社会文化规范、文化趋势和主流营销试图参与的多个亚文化群体之间的动态。

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The duality of class and love 阶级和爱情的二元性

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102060

Dustin S. Stoltz

Social classes are, in part, the intersection of economic and intimate relations. Just as groups and individuals form a duality, social classes and marriages form a duality to the extent marriages are homogamous along class-relevant dimensions; yet analyzing homogamy through the lens of duality is largely under-exploited. Using network, geometric, and text-analytic methods, I explore the intersection of individuals and groups through the social sinews of elite marriage as represented in nearly 14,000 New York Times wedding announcements over fifty years. In particular, I find that homogamy at the level of educational organizations and surnames has increased in the last few decades among this group of elites, while homogamy by occupational organizations and titles has decreased. The technique outlined here allows us to explore fine-grained similarities, moving beyond measuring identical matches or assuming affiliations are independent, to arrive at the latent social structures that emerge from the “homogamy space” created by the dualities of marriage.

在某种程度上，社会阶层是经济关系和亲密关系的交集。正如群体和个人形成二元性一样，社会阶级和婚姻也形成二元性，在某种程度上，婚姻在与阶级相关的维度上是同质的；然而，通过二元性来分析同性婚姻在很大程度上还没有得到充分利用。使用网络、几何和文本分析方法，我通过精英婚姻的社会关系来探索个人和群体的交集，这些关系体现在50年来《纽约时报》近14,000个婚礼公告中。我特别发现，在过去的几十年里，在这一精英群体中，教育机构和姓氏层面的同性婚姻有所增加，而职业机构和头衔层面的同性婚姻有所减少。这里概述的技术允许我们探索细粒度的相似性，超越测量相同的匹配或假设从属关系是独立的，到达从婚姻二元性创造的“同性婚姻空间”中出现的潜在社会结构。

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Grant-flipping across Europe: How Portuguese artists navigate precarity to sustain aspirations beyond recognition 欧洲各地的补助金翻转：葡萄牙艺术家如何在不稳定中生存，以维持人们无法辨认的抱负

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102059

Vera Borges

This article examines how artists navigate precarious labour conditions through a practice we conceptualize as grant-flipping: the sequential pursuit of grants across national and institutional boundaries. We propose this concept as an analytical lens to understand how artists develop reactive strategies not only to sustain their careers, but also to pursue meaningful artistic aspirations amid growing dependence on institutional funding. While the literature on artistic labour often emphasizes reputational hierarchies and structural constraints, grant-flipping foregrounds the adaptive agency of artists and the core values that shape their professional trajectories. Drawing on Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation art grants, we carried out documental analysis of two databases, alongside 60 qualitative interviews and an online survey (N = 488) on grant-based funding. We present six paradigmatic artistic trajectories spanning different career stages and disciplines. Our findings portray how, rather than pursuing global recognition, artists seek relational embeddedness within transnational circuits, often moving through conservatories, residencies, and institutional collaborations. Grant infrastructures enable them to mitigate economic risks, navigate structural inequalities, and sustain long-term careers. By theorizing grant-flipping as a constrained strategy in response to national structural precarity, this article contributes to debates on artistic labour, cultural policy, and the uneven geographies of artistic production. It furthermore provides insights into how Portuguese artists exercise agency within increasingly global and institutionally mediated art fields.

这篇文章探讨了艺术家们是如何通过一种实践来驾驭不稳定的劳动条件的，我们将其定义为“拨款翻转”：跨国家和机构边界的连续追求拨款。我们提出这个概念，作为一个分析的视角，来理解艺术家如何发展反应策略，不仅是为了维持他们的职业生涯，而且在越来越依赖机构资助的情况下，追求有意义的艺术抱负。虽然关于艺术劳动的文献经常强调声誉等级和结构约束，但拨款翻转突出了艺术家的适应性代理和塑造他们职业轨迹的核心价值观。利用Calouste Gulbenkian基金会的艺术资助，我们对两个数据库进行了文献分析，同时进行了60次定性访谈和一项基于资助的在线调查（N = 488）。我们呈现了跨越不同职业阶段和学科的六个范式艺术轨迹。我们的研究结果描述了艺术家如何在跨国巡回演出中寻求关系嵌入，而不是追求全球认可，经常通过音乐学院，驻地和机构合作。资助基础设施使他们能够减轻经济风险，应对结构性不平等，并维持长期的职业生涯。通过将拨款翻转理论化为一种应对国家结构不稳定的受限策略，本文有助于对艺术劳动、文化政策和艺术生产地域不平衡的辩论。此外，它还提供了葡萄牙艺术家如何在日益全球化和制度化的艺术领域中行使代理的见解。

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Extending the quadruple articulation framework to study media use moments: Deconstructing content, platform, device and context 延伸四重衔接框架研究媒介使用时刻：解构内容、平台、装置、语境

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102058

Kristin Van Damme, Tom Evens

Digitisation has not only impacted how media are created and distributed, but also how they are consumed. Consequently, media use has become an elusive concept. This challenges researchers, media organisations, and the audience measurement industry to conceptualize what it means to ‘use media’. The primary objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive taxonomy for delineating the various articulations that constitute media use. To do so, we extend the concept of quadruple articulation by deconstructing and operationalizing the four articulations (i.e. content, platform, object and context) as a taxonomy to study media use. We introduce the notion of ‘individual media use moments’, which we define as discrete, situated instances of media engagement shaped by content, platform, object, and context. This taxonomy complements media repertoires or ensembles approaches, as the different media use moments serve as the building blocks for media repertoires (i.e. the sum of people's frequently occurring media use moments). Although the taxonomy is rooted in digital media environments, its articulations can be extended to analogue media use when applied thoughtfully.

数字化不仅影响了媒体的创造和传播方式，也影响了媒体的消费方式。因此，媒体的使用已成为一个难以捉摸的概念。这对研究人员、媒体组织和受众测量行业提出了挑战，要求他们对“使用媒体”的含义进行概念化。本文的主要目的是提出一个全面的分类法来描述构成媒体使用的各种发音。为此，我们通过解构和操作四种衔接（即内容、平台、对象和上下文）来扩展四重衔接的概念，作为研究媒体使用的分类。我们引入了“个人媒体使用时刻”的概念，我们将其定义为由内容、平台、对象和上下文形成的离散的、情境的媒体参与实例。这种分类法补充了媒体库或集合方法，因为不同的媒体使用时刻作为媒体库的构建块（即人们频繁出现的媒体使用时刻的总和）。虽然分类法植根于数字媒体环境，但如果应用周到，它的表述可以扩展到模拟媒体使用。

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The left and the right in the ethnographic imagination 人种学想象中的左和右

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102056

Federico Brandmayr

Social scientists increasingly rely on ethnographic methods to study political groups. To a greater extent than other researchers, political ethnographers grapple with dilemmas about maintaining appropriate distance from their subjects. Being too close can turn an ethnographer into an uncritical advocate, but being too far comes with the risk of reinforcing stereotypes and overlooking the complexity of their subjects. When they make decisions about research design, fieldwork, and writing, ethnographers consider the expectations their peers have about the correct distance to establish with informants, which are learned in training and informal interaction. This distance, however, is not the same for all types of informants. Informants perceived by the prevailing assumptions of the knowledge community as morally polluted, such as right-wing activists, require a greater distance than subjects that are morally pure or neutral. The article analyzes how political ethnographers use a variety of “distancing devices” to manage how readers perceive the distance they establish with their informants and preempt political and ethical challenges to their work. It does so by drawing on a content analysis of 82 ethnographic articles about left-wing and right-wing groups published since 1998. Overall, the results confirm the existence of profound asymmetries in how distance is constructed between the two types of informants.

社会科学家越来越依赖民族志方法来研究政治团体。与其他研究者相比，政治人种学家在更大程度上面临着与研究对象保持适当距离的困境。距离太近可能会让一个民族志学家变成一个不加批判的倡导者，但距离太远则有强化刻板印象和忽视主题复杂性的风险。当他们决定研究设计、实地考察和写作时，民族志学者会考虑他们的同伴对与线人建立正确距离的期望，这些期望是在培训和非正式互动中习得的。然而，对于所有类型的举报人来说，这种距离是不一样的。被知识界普遍认为受到道德污染的知情者，如右翼积极分子，需要比道德纯洁或中立的对象保持更大的距离。本文分析了政治民族志学家如何使用各种“距离装置”来管理读者如何感知他们与线人建立的距离，并先发制人地应对他们工作中的政治和道德挑战。它通过对自1998年以来发表的82篇关于左翼和右翼团体的民族志文章的内容分析来做到这一点。总的来说，结果证实了两种类型的举报人之间在如何构建距离方面存在深刻的不对称。

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