Pub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-02DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102040
Barış Büyükokutan , Turgut Keskintürk , Hatice Sena Arıcıoğlu
We examine how populist politicians in power produce mass resentment of cultural capital-rich counterelites by comparing three battles in Turkey’s culture war. Investigating how these battles unfolded on Twitter and on a very large online forum, we demonstrate that the production of resentment may require the tacit collaboration of the same counterelites that populists demonize. One way for populists to trap counterelites into participation, we find, is by provoking them to participate in encounters that preserve their dominance of objectified cultural capital at the expense of political power. Populism should thus be viewed interactionally: its relative strength is an ongoing, cumulative, and uncertain outcome of numerous three-way interactions in specific, highly variable sites. Since the macrosociological orientation of extant scholarship is unlikely to capture the dynamics of those sites, populism studies will benefit from developing a more substantial microsociological component.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102043
Clayton Childress
What does it mean when individuals report having a wide variety of cultural knowledge and taste? Core contemporary theories propose different answers to this question, suggesting that cultural breadth is either rooted in the development of “passing knowledge” across multiple domains, or the expression of more general “dispositional openness” to a wide variety of culture. To adjudicate between these two perspectives I introduce the use of pseudo items into culture research, and integrate their usage with Bourdieu’s observations about “competence” and the “right to speak.” I find evidence for a dispositional openness account to claimed cultural knowledge, in addition to a known gender effect that is likely also rooted in dispositions. In closing I discuss how my findings may be suggestive of a new form of allodoxia for elites. I also discuss how pseudo items and other productively weird methodological tools can help refine our analyses of longstanding culture questions, while also generating new ones.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-08-25DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102039
Elina Vrijsen , Alexander Dhoest , Sofie Van Bauwel , Charlotte De Backer
This article examines the cultural associations between meat and masculinities, which is prevalent in western societies and manifested through various forms of popular culture, such as Instagram. Social media play a pivotal role in representing gender identities and food practices in digital spaces, both reflecting and constructing our ideas and beliefs about social life. This article investigates how Food Instagram represents the cultural associations between meat and masculinities through visual imagery and language. By conducting a reflexive thematic analysis of Instagram posts using #meat, we examined how the cultural stereotype of “real men eat meat” is represented on social media, shedding light on the role of meat as a communication system within contemporary western societies. We identified three digital meat-masculinity scripts, expressing cultural associations between meat and masculinity, namely a healthy lifestyle, craftmanship, and taste. These scripts are represented by masculine meat symbols (i.e., how meat functions symbolically in the construction and representation of masculinity, especially in digital and media contexts): the fit male body, masculine meat capital, and the culinary meat gaze. The adoption of these notions in content on meat and masculinities serves as a way to express masculine identity, in order to obtain an ideal form of masculinity.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102006
Myriam Boualami , Camille Roth
This paper examines the musical boundaries that emerge from the distinct consumption patterns of rap audiences. Using the actual listening histories of around 1000 French users of the music streaming platform Deezer, we apply dimensionality reduction and clustering methods to explore the musical boundaries that emerge from distinctive audience consumption patterns, with a particular focus on rap music. We show that these boundaries exhibit salient thematic distinctions, and each region of the map holds its own combination of themes. Focusing on six demographic groups based on age and gender, we find that each exhibits a unique pattern of music preference across the highlighted boundaries. Our findings deepen and renew our understanding of the dynamics in which music boundaries are formed, and highlight the importance of studying and comprehending these dynamics, showcasing one way to shed light on that matter.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102019
Christine Delp
Many cultural production fields engage with questions around the ethics of representation: how should a story be told? I argue that when covering controversial cultural products, cultural critics engage in metaethical discourse about the right way to “do” ethics in the greater cultural production field they are covering. Using the documentary field as a case study, I conducted a discourse analysis of 228 publications written by cultural critics in response to nine controversial documentaries. I demonstrate how cultural critics frame representational transgressions as moral controversies, identifying four types of moral controversy and four types of metaethical discourse commonly invoked by critics. This metaethical discourse signals different sources of authority within the documentary field. I argue that through their coverage of controversy, cultural critics play a key role as moral reputational entrepreneurs, signaling what types of representational transgressions are elevated to moral controversies, as well as uplifting both established and alternative sources of authority in the field.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102007
Laura Garbes , Thomas Marlow
This Research Notes piece explores how journalists use digital platforms to shift conversations about a single event into broader critiques about their industry. In this paper, we document this shift in the case of Audie Cornish’s departure from National Public Radio. We analyze a corpus of 7886 tweets related to her 2022 move from public radio to CNN. How did journalists respond to the event via digital platforms? And what prompted a shift to critical metajournalistic discourse? We find that alongside well wishes for Cornish as an individual, journalists in this context leveraged this individual event occurring within the industry space to call attention to a structural issue in the industry: an inability to retain journalists of color. This initial critical metadiscourse occurring on Twitter gained traction through a tweet by an insider with high cultural capital: Audie Cornish’s co host, Ari Shapiro. The industry critique angle got picked up by traditional news media outlets; it was further amplified by a larger group of journalists on social media. These journalists were then able to further nuance and complicate the issue of diversity and inclusion in the public radio by calling attention to the experiences of less prominent people of color in the industry. Analyzing this discourse offers a case of how critical metajournalistic discourse may emerge on digital platforms, get consolidated and legitimated through traditional news sources, and then get amplified and further nuanced through these same digital platforms.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102014
Ronald L. Breiger , Alessandro Lomi , Francesca Pallotti
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-06-05DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102018
Cristina Loi
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 (N = 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.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102020
Danial Vahabli
Scholarship on resistance in a strong authoritarian context focuses on everyday acts of resistance and loose solidarity networks prior to protests and overt discursive resistance during the protests. These trends are disjointed since they ignore the public discursive spaces surrounding dissidents in their everyday life and hence fail to historicize overt discursive resistance. To bridge this gap, I introduce “discursive nonmovements” which refer to covertly transgressive yet public discursive spaces that are produced independent of the government, social movement organizations, or political leaders. Such spaces facilitate the creation of loose solidarity networks prior to protests and build the foundation for communicating radical dissent in opportune times without the help of political leaders. Further during uprisings, creators turn the discursive nonmovements to overt protest discourse. By analyzing Iranian rap songs prior and during the Women, Life, Freedom movement using critical discourse analysis, I show how songs have changed from implicit, hopeless, allegorical, and melancholic to explicit, hopeful, and vengeful. The transition is a process of “mentioning the unmentionable” which serves as a public open invitation for ordinary citizens to engage in extraordinary acts of resistance.
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Audiobooks have a rich history, evolving from Edison's invention of the phonograph to today's digital audiobooks. Initially considered auxiliary to printed books, audiobooks now enjoy concurrent release and widespread consumption, evident in market growth and increased user engagement. Persistent debates surround the classification of audiobook perception as reading, proponents advocating equivalence while critics contend that they are distinct modes of reception and aesthetic experience. Based on a praxeological approach and a theoretical framework encompassing text, medium, listeners, situations & practices and their resulting effects, this focus group study (n = 34) revealed nuanced perceptions and self-descriptions of regular audiobook listeners, indicating clear distinctions between reading and listening. Despite divergent opinions, the participants demonstrate awareness of their motivations, concrete text selection, specific practices, and contextual factors that influence their choice of reception modality. This research highlights the implications of shifting from print reading to digital listening and the disparities and similarities between the auditory and visual reception of literary texts.
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