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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102024

Jina Lee

This study identifies the mechanisms through which gender inequality persists in literary canonization. Using a mixed-method analysis of 267 elite Korean novelists, I examine how contemporary recognition translates into long-term canonical status and find systematic disadvantages for women in this critical transition. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that while gender alone does not affect anthology inclusion when controlling for other factors, receiving professional reviews increase men’s probability of canonization significantly more than women’s, showing reward-dualism where equivalent achievements yield unequal outcomes. Qualitative analysis uncovers gendered devaluation in critical discourse: Korean literary traditions developed evaluative repertoires where both men’s and women’s autobiographical writing receives recognition for its authenticity, contradicting Western cases where authenticity is predominantly associated with women. This pattern emerged from Korea’s colonial history, which legitimized the use of personal narratives in literary writing as a means of restoring ethnic identity. However, literary scholars systematically elevate men’s contributions to universality and historical significance while confining women’s works within gender-specific categories. This demonstrates that apparent gender parity in evaluative repertoires can mask persistent inequality operating through different pathways. By documenting these culturally adapted mechanisms, this research challenges Western-centric assumptions about how gender hierarchies are maintained in artistic evaluation and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of how gender shapes long-term artistic recognition across different cultural contexts.

本研究确定了性别不平等在文学册封中持续存在的机制。通过对267位韩国精英小说家的混合分析，我研究了当代的认可是如何转化为长期的规范地位的，并发现了女性在这一关键转变中的系统性劣势。定量分析表明，虽然在控制其他因素的情况下，性别本身不会影响选集的收录，但接受专业评论会显著增加男性被封为圣徒的可能性，这显示了奖励二元论，即同等的成就产生不平等的结果。定性分析揭示了批评话语中的性别贬值：韩国文学传统发展了评估性的曲目，其中男性和女性的自传写作都因其真实性而得到认可，这与西方的真实性主要与女性相关的情况相矛盾。这种模式源于韩国的殖民历史，这使得在文学写作中使用个人叙事作为恢复民族身份的手段合法化。然而，文学学者系统地提升了男性对普遍性和历史意义的贡献，而将女性作品限制在特定性别的类别中。这表明，评估曲目中明显的性别平等可以掩盖通过不同途径运作的持续不平等。通过记录这些文化适应机制，本研究挑战了以西方为中心的关于性别等级如何在艺术评价中维持的假设，并有助于更全面地理解性别如何在不同文化背景下塑造长期的艺术认知。

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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 : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102023

Andreas Tutić , Sascha Grehl

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.

本文通过双过程视角探讨了取消文化背后的认知过程，该视角区分了直觉（类型1）和反思（类型2）思维模式。通过对决策模式进行实验操作的调查实验，我们研究了关于移民和气候变化的政治不正确陈述如何影响取消决策。研究测量了对仇外心理和气候变化的显性和隐性态度，以了解它们对取消行为的影响。我们的研究结果表明，与直觉条件相比，政治不正确的陈述在反思条件下导致更高的取消率，明确的态度在反思决策中起着更大的作用。重要的是，内隐态度和外显态度的差异不仅塑造了决策模式的处理效果，而且揭示了道德虚伪的模式。在反思的条件下，个体经常取消他人以符合社会规范，即使他们的隐性态度与这些公开行为相冲突。这突出了取消文化中认知、社会规范和道德判断之间复杂的相互作用，反思性思维可能导致表演而不是真正的道德行为。

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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 : 2025-07-03 DOI: 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.

在强烈的威权背景下，关于抵抗的学术研究侧重于抗议之前的日常抵抗行为和松散的团结网络，以及抗议期间公开的话语抵抗。这些趋势是脱节的，因为它们忽略了日常生活中围绕持不同政见者的公共话语空间，因此未能将公开的话语抵抗历史化。为了弥合这一差距，我引入了“话语非运动”，它指的是独立于政府、社会运动组织或政治领导人而产生的秘密越界但公开的话语空间。这些空间有助于在抗议之前建立松散的团结网络，并为在没有政治领导人帮助的情况下在适当的时候传播激进的异议奠定基础。在起义期间，创作者将话语性的不运动转化为公开的抗议话语。通过运用批判性话语分析，分析女性、生命、自由运动之前和运动期间的伊朗说唱歌曲，我展示了歌曲如何从含蓄、绝望、寓言和忧郁转变为明确、希望和复仇。这种转变是一个“提及不可提及之事”的过程，是一个公开邀请普通公民参与非同寻常的抵抗行动的过程。

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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 : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021

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

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.

有声书有着丰富的历史，从爱迪生发明留声机到今天的数字有声书。有声书最初被认为是纸质书的辅助工具，但现在它可以同时发行和广泛消费，这在市场增长和用户参与度的提高上表现得很明显。关于有声读物感知与阅读的分类一直存在争议，支持者主张对等，而批评者则认为它们是不同的接受和审美体验模式。基于行动学的方法和理论框架，包括文本、媒介、听众、情境；这项焦点小组研究（n = 34）揭示了经常听有声书的人的细微感知和自我描述，表明了阅读和听力之间的明显区别。尽管有不同的意见，但参与者表现出对其动机、具体文本选择、具体实践和影响其接受方式选择的语境因素的认识。这项研究强调了从印刷阅读转向数字听力的影响，以及文学文本听觉和视觉接受之间的差异和相似之处。

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Cultural critics as moral reputational entrepreneurs: Controversy, metaethical discourse, and authority in the documentary field 作为道德声誉企业家的文化批评家：纪录片领域的争议、元伦理话语和权威

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 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.

许多文化生产领域都围绕着表现的伦理问题：一个故事应该如何讲述？我认为，在报道有争议的文化产品时，文化评论家们会参与元伦理话语，讨论在他们所报道的更大的文化生产领域中“做”伦理的正确方式。我以纪录片领域为个案，对文化评论家针对9部有争议的纪录片撰写的228篇出版物进行了话语分析。我展示了文化批评家是如何将具象性的越轨作为道德争议的框架，确定了四种类型的道德争议和四种类型的元伦理话语，这些话语通常被评论家引用。这种元伦理话语标志着纪录片领域内不同的权威来源。我认为，通过他们对争议的报道，文化评论家作为道德声誉企业家发挥了关键作用，表明哪些类型的代表性越轨行为被提升为道德争议，以及提升该领域既有权威和替代权威来源。

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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 : 2025-06-05 DOI: 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.

关于阅读小说的内在功能，一个普遍的假设是，它允许我们在自己的生活之外过其他的生活，满足我们体验不同身份的需求。这一说法不仅在一些被文学作家引用最多的陈述中反复出现(Eco, 1991；马丁,20111;巴尔加斯·略萨（Vargas Llosa, 1984），但它也是媒体心理学和文学研究理论的核心，这些理论关注的是参与叙事的基本动机(TEBOTS， Slater等人，2014；Storyworld Possible self, Martínez, 2014)。本研究调查了这种阅读动机是否是狂热读者有意识感知的一部分，在各种当代阅读实践（书籍，数字小说和Wattpad）的综合样本中。在采用间接方法的主题内设计中，通过在线调查向读者（N = 498）提供了两篇短篇文学节选（一篇是关于未实现可能性的主题，另一篇是不相关的“对照”节选）。他们被要求自由地阐述他们的即时反应，并完成一项关于他们“可能性感”的个体差异测量（Musil, 1965），通过最大化和后悔（Schwartz等人，2002）人格特征进行操作。混合方法内容分析的结果表明，具有积极可能性感的个体更有可能报告说，他们经常体验到对替代生活的渴望。此外，在这部分读者中，34.5%的人也自发地提到，他们阅读小说是为了满足这种渴望，因为小说让他们拥有了另一种身份。

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Investigating Musical Taxonomy in the era of Streaming Platforms: Insights from Rap music through actual consumption data 调查流媒体平台时代的音乐分类：从实际消费数据看说唱音乐

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 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.

本文考察了说唱音乐受众的不同消费模式所产生的音乐边界。利用音乐流媒体平台Deezer的大约1000名法国用户的实际收听历史，我们应用降维和聚类方法来探索不同受众消费模式中出现的音乐边界，特别关注说唱音乐。我们表明，这些边界表现出显著的主题差异，地图的每个区域都有自己的主题组合。我们将重点放在基于年龄和性别的六个人口群体上，发现每个群体都表现出独特的音乐偏好模式，跨越了突出显示的界限。我们的发现加深和更新了我们对音乐边界形成的动态的理解，并强调了研究和理解这些动态的重要性，展示了一种阐明这一问题的方法。

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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 : 2025-05-28 DOI: 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.

在本文中，我们重新设想线性回归模型作为文化分析的关系方法。借鉴双回归分析方法(Schoon, Melamed &；Breiger, 2024)，我们认为回归方程的基本组成部分不是单个变量，而是由案例集群表现出来的变量配置。在一项关于学术机构同伴效应和成就的研究中，我们展示了回归模型本身如何被理解为假设社会行为者之间的成对影响关系网络，该网络产生回归模型所模拟的结果。此外，这个网络适合研究同质性（具有相似特征的个体具有社会网络连接的趋势）。我们通过整合连接案例的社会关系网络的信息，推动了Schoon等人的回归模型的新的、以案例为导向的思考。我们发现，当个人资料的相似性提高学习成绩时，高密度的社会网络集群被发现。我们证明，有时将情况的配置视为回归模型中的“变量”是有用的。我们认为，在我们研究的具体经验背景下，这种方法创新具有独特的实用价值和强大的理论动机。

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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 : 2025-05-22 DOI: 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.

这篇研究笔记探讨了记者如何利用数字平台将关于单一事件的对话转变为对其行业的更广泛批评。在本文中，我们记录了Audie Cornish离开国家公共广播电台的情况下的这种转变。我们分析了7886条推文的语料库，这些推文与她2022年从公共广播电台转到CNN有关。记者们如何通过数字平台回应这一事件？是什么促使人们转向批判的元新闻话语？我们发现，除了对康沃尔作为一个个体的良好祝愿之外，在这种背景下，记者们利用这个行业空间内发生的个人事件来引起人们对行业结构性问题的关注：无法留住有色人种的记者。这个最初出现在Twitter上的批评性元话语，通过一个拥有很高文化资本的内部人士——奥迪·康沃尔的联合主持人阿里·夏皮罗（Ari Shapiro）——的推文获得了关注。行业批判的角度被传统新闻媒体所接受；社交媒体上的一大群记者进一步放大了这一点。然后，这些记者通过呼吁人们关注该行业中不太突出的有色人种的经历，进一步使公共广播电台的多样性和包容性问题变得微妙和复杂。分析这一话语提供了一个案例，说明批判性元新闻话语如何在数字平台上出现，通过传统新闻来源得到巩固和合法化，然后通过这些数字平台得到放大和进一步细致入微。

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Mapping relational structures in culture 在文化中映射关系结构

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Poetics

Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102005

Marco Serino , Thierry Rossier , Elisa Klüger , Fabien Eloire

Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of relations constituting them. Critical to exploring the intersections of culture and structure are relational methodologies, especially geometric data analysis (GDA) and social network analysis (SNA). Over the years, these two perspectives – as distinct strategies or in combination with one another – have been proved well-suited to understand the inherent relationality of cultural phenomena. The present editorial takes stock of the development of such analytical frameworks to look at the recent progress in the study of cultural structures, in continuity with a tradition of sociological research most especially disseminated through Poetics. It develops three core elements in the sociological study of culture: the relational theory mobilised in such study, its relational focus in terms of the cultural entities studied, and its relational methodologies. This special issue gathers ten empirical papers that span cultural consumption, artistic and scientific fields, media usage, and knowledge production, employing various empirical tools available in GDA and SNA to map relational structures in culture. It thus offers new insights into the interplay between culture and structure and provides valuable tools and perspectives for future research in cultural sociology.

文化是一个关系概念，文化的经验表现值得从结构的角度来分析，以揭示构成它们的关系模式。探索文化和结构交叉点的关键是关系方法，特别是几何数据分析（GDA）和社会网络分析（SNA）。多年来，这两种观点——作为不同的策略或相互结合——已被证明非常适合于理解文化现象的内在关系。本社论盘点了这些分析框架的发展，着眼于文化结构研究的最新进展，延续了社会学研究的传统，尤其是通过诗学传播的研究。它发展了文化社会学研究的三个核心要素：在这种研究中动员的关系理论，它在所研究的文化实体方面的关系焦点，以及它的关系方法。这期特刊收集了十篇实证论文，涵盖文化消费、艺术和科学领域、媒体使用和知识生产，运用GDA和SNA中可用的各种实证工具来绘制文化中的关系结构。这为研究文化与结构的相互作用提供了新的视角，为今后的文化社会学研究提供了有价值的工具和视角。

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