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Social capital and the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital: How parents’ social networks influence children's accumulation of cultural capital Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Andreas Roaldsnes
How does families’ social networks influence the transmission of cultural capital to their children? Earlier research on this process has mainly focused on within-family mechanisms, and the role of social capital as conceptualized by Pierre Bourdieu has here received little attention. This article explores this question through a study of parents’ social ties and parents’ and children's cultural, leisurely
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A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Tony H. Grubesic, Edward Helderop, Bhajleen Kaur
This paper explores the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock, a genre of music that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in the United States and beyond. In addition to using formal social network analysis to explore the development and transformation of Yacht Rock's collaborative musical network through time, we identify its most influential
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The racial formation not taken: Occupational careers and the making of jazz album covers, 1950–1969 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Barış Büyükokutan
How are racial representations created? I compare two kinds of jazz album cover from the 1950s and 60s to show that the production of culture approach has untapped potential for answering that question. After demonstrating that photographic and modern art-based work constructed Blackness in different ways, I account for photography's domination of the sleeve by focusing on the structure and history
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Professional patios, emotional studios: Locating social ties in European art residences Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Nikita Basov, Dafne Muntanyola-Saura, Sergi Méndez, Oleksandra Nenko
To foster creativity through sociality, residences put artists together. At the same time, in their quest for originality, artists often opt for individualism. Little is known on how physical collocation in residences affects artistic sociality. Addressing this gap, we draw on a combination of interviews, observations, and surveys, analysed with an innovative mixture of abductive coding, computational
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Coagents as intermediaries in the book industry Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Paul Crosby, Jordi McKenzie
This study investigates the use of coagents in the book industry. To reach international markets, domestic publishers typically license a title’s rights to third-party international publishers, a practice known as 'selling rights’. Rights sellers can either choose to work directly in a local market or with intermediaries known as coagents. Using a data set of over 2000 international rights sales for
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From Macrogenres to microgenres via relationality Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Omar Lizardo
Recent work in the sociology of taste has begun to grapple with the relational properties of traditional survey-based data using techniques inspired by network analysis. Despite productive results from this endeavor, critics rightly question the face and ecological validity of the vague macrogenre labels included in standard arts participation surveys (e.g., Classical, Rock, Rap) which feed into these
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Models of generating cultural authority: Academics and journalists on a digital platform Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Shira Zilberstein
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'
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Exploring the prevalence of success stories in popular work-related television series: A content analysis Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Sarah Devos, Femke Konings, Steven Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch
This content analytical study (N = 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 Suits, Grey's Anatomy, The Bold Type, and The Good Doctor. Based on the ideas of cultivation theory, this study explores how such
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Uneven and combined consecration: The mainstream, duplicate, and workaround institutions of jazz Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Barış Büyükokutan
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
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Beyond the author: Artificial intelligence, creative writing and intellectual emancipation Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jack Tsao, Collier Nogues
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
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The nested relationality of perceived legitimacy: Mapping taste hierarchies with granular digital traces Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Massimo Airoldi
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
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The psychological origins of science fiction Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Edgar Dubourg, Valentin Thouzeau, Nicolas Baumard
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
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Party rocking: Exploring the relationship between music preference, partisanship, and political attitudes Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Brianna N. Mack, Teresa R. Martin
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 (Kay, 2017). Preliminary research suggests that there could be a connection between political
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The classed trajectory of media habitus: Television time and socioeconomic status from adolescence to adulthood Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Annaliese Grant
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
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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 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Vincent M. Carter
Introduction 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&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
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Changing of the guards: Status dynamics and innovation in American TV shows, 1956–2010 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Erez Aharon Marantz, Gino Cattani
Researchers have advanced two opposing accounts of the relationship between status and cultural innovation. We aim to reconcile these views – and their conflicting findings that either high- or low-status cultural producers are more likely to innovate – by adopting a dynamic view of status. We argue that changes in status – at the individual and the field level – affect the relationship between status
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“The poem has stayed with me”: Continued processing and impact from Shared Reading experiences of people living with cancer Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Tine Riis Andersen, Frank Hakemulder
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
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A Symbolic Hierarchy of Places: Global Inequalities in Tourism Narratives of the New York Times Travel Section Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Hesu Yoon, Andrew McCumber
We study the symbolic value of places using the case of global tourism where places are explicitly objectified for valorization. Unlike most prior research that uses tangible measurements like UNESCO's World Heritage Sites for global comparison of place-based symbolic values, we harness the power of computational text analysis to measure the symbolic value of places based on travel writings of the
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Why Jane likes to read and John does not. How parents and schools stimulate girls’ and boys’ intrinsic reading motivation Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp
Student's intrinsic reading motivation is key to their reading proficiency and spills over to other domains of development. Prior studies show that girls are more intrinsically motivated to read than boys but little is known about how reading socialization in families and schools relate to gender inequality in reading motivation. This study investigates a) how reading socialization activities in families
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AI as an Artist? A Two-Wave Survey Study on Attitudes Toward Using Artificial Intelligence in Art Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Rita Latikka, Jenna Bergdahl, Nina Savela, Atte Oksanen
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have developed rapidly, and generative AI in particular challenges human creativity. Therefore, people's perspectives about this transformative change involving creativity and art must be examined. We investigated attitudes toward using AI in art from the perspective of self-determination theory. We used data from a two-wave survey of Finnish respondents aged
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Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Ossi Sirkka, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Susanne Janssen
Despite the long history of debating its meaning and its current unprecedented ubiquity both in scholarly and popular discourses, little is systematically known about how “culture” is conceived by ordinary people. This paper examines how evaluations of the contents and boundaries of expressive culture are patterned among people in and across present-day European societies, and to what degree these
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In the mood for odd? The role of affective factors in the evaluation of categorical atypicality Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Arnaud Cudennec, Chang-Wa Huynh
This paper investigates the impact of atypicality on cultural goods reception. While prior research has assumed controlled and highly cognitive mechanisms in audience evaluations, this paper probes the influence of affective states. We suggest that crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, trigger affective states and sway evaluations of atypical cultural goods. In a longitudinal study on movie evaluations
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The consecrating power of the Nobel Prize in the global literary field Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Jørgen Sneis, Carlos Spoerhase
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Considering genres in gendered and racialized cultural capital Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Sonia Planson
Despite their essential role in conceptualizing cultural capital, genres have been left out of most quantitative empirical studies in this research tradition. Based on data from the French Ministry of Education with measures of detailed genre consumption for reading and TV watching, this article uses multiple correspondence analysis to show differences in consumption by gender, race/ethnicity, and
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Civil sacred: The nobel and the laureate position in cultural space Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Günter Leypoldt
This essay situates the Nobel's institutional charisma within the “laureate position,” an older but still relevant socio-institutional formation that frames literature as a “higher good” (as distinct, say, from “mere” entertainment). The first three sections place the Nobel within the landscape of literary prizes, discussing its particular currency of value (strong rather than weak), its relation to
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Diffuse consecration: How modes of authorship shape literary prizes Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Rebecca Braun, Johann Wolfgang Unger
This article takes a fresh look at Pierre Bourdieu's notion of consecration by applying a mixed methods approach to the way authorship unfolds around the Nobel Prize. Drawing on both conceptual literary history and corpus-assisted discourse analysis, the case study of Herta Müller's ‘unexpected’ win in 2009 is taken as a starting point for establishing how different ‘modes of authorship’ play out in
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The Symbolic Economy of the Nobel Prize in literature: how it counters or reproduces modes of domination Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Gisèle Sapiro
According to Bourdieu's theory, literary prizes are those specific authorities which contribute in the long run to the conversion of symbolic capital into economic capital. The Nobel Prize played a major role in the unification of a relatively autonomous international literary space, as described by Casanova. It helped create a new canon of world literature, as the Nobel prize winners were widely translated
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How the Nobel became a world prize: Scalar mediation in the global literary field Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jacob Habinek
This article introduces the concept of scalar mediation to describe a central aspect of the work of global consecrating organizations. Existing work has demonstrated how scales within global cultural fields can operate as distinctive symbolic universes. The present study looks at how global consecrators bridge the different and sometimes contradictory judgements made at different scales to produce
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Continuing in a creative career: Claiming an artistic identity and aligning trajectories among early career novelists Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Henrik Fürst
Most artists who venture into an artistic career discontinue after their debut work. This article contributes to the understanding of early artistic career discontinuation and continuation by drawing on 53 mainly longitudinal interviews with early-career Swedish novelists. The article develops interactionist theories of careers and social worlds, and suggests that continuation of literary careers depends
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The ties that conform: Legitimacy and innovation of live music venues and local music scenes Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Yun Tai
This study investigates innovation within live music scenes by analyzing the extent to which live music venues, with varying types and levels of legitimacy, conform to or diverge from their counterparts in terms of band and artist selection. Based on a self-collected dataset with information on 175 live music venues and some 5000 performing acts they featured in a year, this study reveals that economic
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Working live. A sociological account of the entangled relations of liveness through festival work. Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Britt Swartjes, Jo Haynes
The ‘liveness’ of live music performance is often understood as a sensibility or effect – a ‘magic’ or ‘energy’ – produced through a dynamic attachment between performer and audience. However, this popular meaning is elusive and offers a narrow account of the actors, dynamics and relationships involved in its production. Academic debates about ‘liveness’ have tended to reproduce and rely upon existing
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The “Waves:” Conceptualizing Covid-19 as an event through one (particularly) contested metaphor Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Nick Rekenthaler
This paper bridges scholarship on events with that on metaphors, positing metaphors as a proxy for competing “forms of eventfulness.” Focusing specifically on the “wave” metaphor, I draw from 471 Governor's Covid-19 Briefing transcripts across ten governors—five Democratic, five Republican—from the year 2020 to identify two competing forms of eventfulness with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic. As I
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Music-genre identification in adolescents: An exploratory study Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Romain Brisson
Over the past few decades, quantitative research on musical tastes and consumption has extensively relied on methods involving music genre labels. These methods generally assume participants to share a general and common label knowledge. However, such an assumption has not been empirically tested to date. The present study aimed to (a) estimate adolescents’ ability to identify music genres and (b)
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Vulnerable Machos: The Globalization of Hip hop and Changing Gender Regimes in Israeli Rap Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Uri Dorchin
Israeli rappers often feature vulnerability in their texts and performances. In so doing they deliberately challenge a long tradition of hyper-masculinity in both hip hop and Israeli culture. This strategic deviation, I claim, enables Israeli rappers to exhibit a sense of authenticity and hence to claim legitimate participation in the global field of hip hop which sacralizes the ethos of “being real
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Music consumption and taste internalisation practices among educated Brazilian metal listeners and members of musical scenes Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Álvaro Leonel de Oliveira Castro, Daniel Carvalho de Rezende
This article characterises the taste internalisation practices of listeners engaged in the consumption of the metal musical genre, delimiting engagement as an active role in performing distinctive actions and/or establishing social relations that enable the metal scene in Brazil. We found that social actors and specialised media propagate the normative system among listeners, who get involved with
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Examining genre success, co-occurrence, release, and production of 9,068 films over twenty years Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 C. Joseph Francemone, Kevin Kryston, Matthew Grizzard
Understanding macro-level trends in the entertainment industry is vital to the advancement of mass communication theories. The current paper works towards this end by providing a representative layout of genre patterns across the film industry. We analyze 9,068 films released from 1997 to 2017, and examine genre in terms of success, co-occurrence, release, and production. Consistent with past work
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A quantitative study of non-linearity in storytelling Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Andrew Piper, Olivier Toubia
In this paper, we present a study of non-linearity in storytelling in a collection of 2,348 books published since 2001 that are divided among 10 different categories. We employ word embeddings to capture the semantic non-linearity of a book, along with three associated measures called speed, volume, and distance. We find that narrative non-linearity is strongly associated with the communication of
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The show must go on(line): Livestreamed concerts and the hyper-ritualisation of genre conventions Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Femke Vandenberg, Michaël Berghman
This paper examines audience engagement at livestreamed concerts, a form of mediatised cultural consumption that saw an immense growth in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerts, as events that draw large groups of people with similar intentions, are the perfect location for the establishment of large-scale interaction rituals – moments of group behaviour characterised by a highly intense
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O tempora! O mores! Cultural modernisation and nudity depiction in European cinema Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Viyaleta Korsunava, Olesya Volchenko
This paper analyses the film industry as a social phenomenon through the lens of revised modernisation theory. Revised modernisation theory implies that economic development leads to value shift which eventually results in the spread of more liberal social attitudes, including the greater acceptance of sexual freedoms, gender equality, and overall tolerance. These changes penetrate all spheres of social
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The avant-garde consumers: A new perspective on quality evaluations of performing arts Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Andrea Baldin, Trine Bille
This article further investigates a well-established issue in consumer research concerning cultural offerings, namely the relationship between expert (critics) and audience quality evaluations. We provide a new perspective by arguing that such a relationship must consider the heterogeneity of consumers and experts alike. This article addresses the issue of quality evaluation of performing arts, and
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Coping with Covid: exploring reconfigurations of Flemish news repertoires in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Ruben Vandenplas, Ike Picone
As we are now rounding up our second year with COVID-19, studies have provided insight into the pandemic's impact on news practices around the world. However, most of these accounts describe data from the early months of the outbreak. Further research is needed to explore the shapes that news repertoires might have settled into in the wake of the pandemic. By comparing data from a Latent Class Analysis
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Socially distanced artistic careers: Professional social interactions in early, established, and late career stages during COVID-19 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Rachel Skaggs
The impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts sector resulted in acute, drastic drops in employment, revenue, and events. Career maintenance and persistence in the arts during this period involved substantially altered practices, particularly in terms of professional social interactions, which are known to be essential in artistic occupations. This research uses interview data from
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The origins of hits: Cumulative advantage vs. multiplicative returns in cultural markets Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Charles Seguin
The popularity of cultural objects is often distributed as many unpopular “flops” alongside a few “hits.” Hits can be several orders of magnitude more popular than typical objects but are difficult to predict ex-ante. Most explanations focus on cumulative advantage (CA): rich-get-richer processes wherein the success of cultural objects breeds future success, creating high inequality in popularity and
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Culture and green tastes. A sociological analysis of the relationship between cultural engagement and environmental practices Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Robbe Geerts, Frédéric Vandermoere, Stijn Oosterlynck
In this study, we approach environmental practices from a cultural point of view, focusing on the role of cultural capital. While previous studies have looked at educational attainment, we focus on another dimension of cultural capital i.e., cultural engagement. Against this background, we use data from the Flemish Survey on Socio-cultural Shift to (i) examine cultural engagement and distinction in
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Black newspapers and the Black public sphere: The utility of cartoons in the context of World War II Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Joseph Guzman, Brandon Moore
Black newspapers have historically played an important role within the African American community, reaching preeminence during the World War II era. Embodied in the Double V Campaign, they sought victories for democracy both at home and abroad. In analyzing two different types of cartoons—etiquette cartoons and political cartoons—present within a local Black newspaper during the war and post-war period
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Interaction rituals and technology: A review essay Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Lars E.F. Johannessen
This article aims to advance research on interaction rituals (IR) and technology. Its starting point is interaction ritual theory, a key micro-sociological approach that postulates IRs as the micro-interactional glue that holds social life together. This approach sees IRs as requiring bodily co-presence among interactants, thus casting doubt over the ritual potential of technology-mediated interaction
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Armchair citizenship and ontological insecurity: Uncovering styles of media and political behavior Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Terence E. McDonnell, Sarah M. Neitz, Marshall A. Taylor
Media effects research has established a positive relationship between media and news consumption and political action—a “more-more” pattern. This paper identifies a coexistent “more-less” pattern in which more political engagement on social media is associated with limited political behavior offline. Traditional approaches that treat media behavior as an independent variable and political behavior
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Campus connections for creative careers: Social capital, gender inequality, and artistic work Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Nathan D. Martin, Alexandre Frenette, Gillian Gualtieri
In this study, we examine how social capital developed during the college years is connected to subsequent career outcomes for arts alumni. We analyzed data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an online retrospective survey of alumni from arts-related majors or degree programs (N = 25,460 arts alumni from 132 postsecondary institutions in the United States). Results from mixed-effects
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Musicians, their relationships, and their wellbeing: Creative labour, relational work Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 George Musgrave
Evidence points towards the key role that networks of both formal and informal relationships play in musicians’ careers. Alongside this, these careers have in recent decades become increasingly understood as engendering emotional stressors around mental health and wellbeing. However, what is the relationship between these two phenomena? In other words, what is the affective impact on musicians’ mental
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Advertising has come out: Viewers’ perception of the portrayal of lesbian, gay, and transgender characters in advertising Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Mariana Fried, Suzanna J. Opree
Research on LGBT-inclusive advertising has been limited to analyzing ad content and commercial effectiveness. This study focuses on viewers’ perception of advertising featuring lesbian, gay, and transgender characters and its prosocial potential. It analyzes the open-ended answers given by participants involved in a survey experiment. These reveal their belief that advertising could support positive
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Building performance capital during hard lockdown: Insights from the ESNS 2021 virtual-only showcase festival Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Blanka Brzozowska, Patryk Galuszka
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic showcase festival Eurosonic Noorderslag 2021 took place entirely online. One of its elements consisted of numerous prerecorded videos (each about 15 min long) that showcased artists performing “live”. The unique pandemic circumstances, which forced participating musicians to experiment with a new format, made it possible to observe how various emerging artists utilized
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Splendid isolation: Managing time and making culture among novelists during the pandemic Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Henrik Fürst
While many public performances of culture were shut down during much of the pandemic, the homes of many artists became prominent places for making culture. In particular, the pandemic created a rift in the temporal and spatial organization of work and leisure, affecting time management. This article turns to the creative lives of 32 novelists in Sweden who were interviewed online over video in 2020
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Intermediaries in the age of platformized gatekeeping: The case of YouTube “creators” and MCNs in the U.S. Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Michael L. Siciliano
How do intermediaries affect cultural production in the age of platformized gatekeeping? Cultural production increasingly depends upon digital infrastructures known as platforms (e.g., Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Google, et al.) for distribution. These infrastructures supposedly diminish the importance of conventional, non-infrastructural intermediaries, yet cultural production's platformization
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Theatre without theatres: Investigating access barriers to mediatized theatre and digital liveness during the covid-19 pandemic Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Stefano Brilli, Laura Gemini, Francesca Giuliani
In each stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have witnessed initiatives that, through digital technologies, have attempted to ensure the presence of theatre and to nurture the relationship with audiences. Our research asks which entry barriers to the artistic field have been strengthened or weakened by implementing theatre initiatives for online audiences and how these initiatives have affected the regional
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Netflix chills and revamps its viewing metrics: Preliminary analysis and opportunities for research Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Jordi McKenzie, Paul Crosby, Sunny Y. Shin
In November 2021, Netflix surprised industry observers by announcing the release of three data sets containing information on its viewing metrics. Up until this time, Netflix had been notoriously protective of its data, much to the frustration of industry stakeholders and researchers alike. The new Netflix data marks a significant development for researchers previously hindered by an almost total absence
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