The Social Narrative of Technology

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Narrative

Transforming Conflict Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 154134462110451
Author(s):  
Beth Fisher-Yoshida ◽  
Joan C. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Coordinated Management Of Meaning ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Of Meaning ◽  
Social Narrative ◽  
Conflict Narratives

Narratives, both personal and social, guide how we live and how we are acculturated into our social worlds. As we make changes in our lives, our personal stories change and, in turn, have the potential to influence the social narratives of which we are a part. Likewise, when there are changes in the culture and social worlds around us, that social narrative changes, thereby affecting our personal narratives. In other words, personal and social narratives are strongly linked and mutually influence each other. We may feel and know these transformations take place and understand the ways in which our lives are affected. However, we often struggle to document these shifts. This article suggests using the practical theory, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) (Pearce, 2007), for narrative analysis to identify and surface personal and social narrative transformations.

Writing One's Own Story: Women, Aging, and the Social Narrative

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 114-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valory Mitchell ◽  
Cindy M. Bruns
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Narrative

scholarly journals Playing at Control: Writing Surveillance in/for Gamified Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 699-713
Author(s):  
Garfield Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Game Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Social Narrative ◽  
Data Centres

Gamification has entrenched constant monitoring throughout society. From education to work to shopping, our activities are tracked, our progress is monitored, and rewards are meted out. But this enforced acceptance of constant surveillance constructs a social narrative in which privacy ceases to exist, and the technological tools at work can easily be shifted from reward to control. This is furthered through the shift from a Bentham–Foucault model of power and the threat of surveillance to the actualisation of complete protocological surveillance enabled by cloud computing, data centres, and machine learning. It is no longer the case that anything we do might be surveilled; we can be fairly certain that everything we do probably is being monitored, judged, and recorded. How can we negotiate these changing narratives? Of what fictions do we convince ourselves when we play the “game” called digital society? This article uses the work of Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, Dave Eggers, and Ernest Cline to assess how fictionality can act as thought experiments for the social conditions of surveillance technologies. Through stories such as Halting State and Walkaway, we explore the collisions between the control-based society of tech companies and the disciplinary structures of traditional states—the points of tension between illusions of freedom, guided game paths, and the exercise of power over users’ data and behaviours. The article argues for expanding our perspectives on the reach of game analysis to the broader connected networks of cultural and political systems, to assess ways of responding to the idea that we are being played with, turned into characters in the gamified narratives of control-based surveillance societies.  

scholarly journals Women’s Softball and the Collaborative Spirit of Magic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-339
Author(s):  
Timothy de Waal Malefyt ◽  
Johnson Peter
Keyword(s):  
Practical Work ◽  
Women's College ◽  
Team Identity ◽  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Game Outcome ◽  
Magical Power ◽  
Social Narrative

All major US sports are high in superstitions because motivation to win is high and the game outcome is uncertain; athletes purportedly engage in superstitious behavior to reduce anxiety, build individual confidence and cope with uncertainty. Sports is also a male domain, where men traditionally display individual, masculine achievement. We observe magic rituals practiced in a women’s college softball team not as a means to overcome anxiety or display individual prowess, but as a way to blend creative individuality into the unity of the social whole, which manifests as a social narrative of the team. We analyze individual and team magic in two forms –institutionalized magic and individual superstitions – which build idiosyncratic behavior into a collective team dynamic. As such, this essay shows how women use magical power collaboratively. Women on a college softball team partake in practical work and magic, such that participating in magic through empathy and sensing one another creates team identity, allowing the reimagination of forms and outcomes.

scholarly journals Mitigating Misinformation and Changing the Social Narrative

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3261-3263
Author(s):  
Elissa M. Abrams ◽  
Matthew Greenhawt
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Narrative

Looking in the mirror: the global '68 through the Brazilian daily press

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Hernández Huerta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mexican Students ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Narrative

PurposeThis article explains the process of construction and configuration of the Brazilian social imaginary on the global '68 using the daily press as source material.Design/methodology/approachIt looks at the narratives conveyed by the press about the condition, situation, motivations, aspirations and capacity for action of young university students. The analysis is focused mainly on the usage of totalitarian language and permits an in-depth view of the reality of life in Brazil at the time and the role played by the students in the resistance to the dictatorship. It also includes an analysis of how other students' protests of 1968 – in Poland and Mexico – were portrayed through the media, and how they helped to shape the collective imaginary about Brazilian university students, situating it in a conjuncture of broader dimensions and connections.FindingsThe youth of Brazil, Poland and Mexico were represented as active political and social subjects, capable of defying, and sometimes profoundly upsetting, the established order. Violence and the discourse of violence were constant unifying elements in the narratives created by the daily press. This helped generate an image of university students which portrayed them as a rebellious, revolutionary and/or subversive sector of the population, responsible for one of the most extensive and profound social and political crises which those countries had experienced in decades.Originality/valueThis is the first study of the Brazilian reception of the '68 Polish and Mexican students' protest and its implications for the social narrative of students' resistance in Brazil.

scholarly journals The Orthodox Church of Ukraine at the intersection of social narratives: conflict of interpretations

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Yuriі Boreiko
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social Narrative

The article explores the semantic potential of social narratives associated with the creation and constitution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which caused a interpretations conflict, marked by conflicting interpretations and differences in meanings that are applied in different contexts. The narrative arranges events in a certain time sequence, accumulates and translates meanings, individual and social experience. The presence of meanings in the interpretation of the narrative depends on the perspective, interpretation horizons and the subject's ability to analyze information and its correct application. The social narrative accumulates a set of stories and messages that are fragmentary and disordered, constructs a coherent plot aimed at finding and defining meanings, and forming social discourse. Social narratives materialized in social structures, orientations, expectations, and stereotypes of their bearers due to everyday modification in the form of simple images, attitudes, and principles. Since each social narrative claims to be exclusive and correct in its own way of understanding events, a clash of narratives and their interpretations is inevitable. A large-scale event determines the modification of social structures, standards, and evaluation criteria, is accompanied by the transformation of everyday life, reveals deep mental layers, and opens up new perspectives. The extraordinary event that was marked by the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is accompanied by diametrically opposite assessments from the clergy, believers, politicians, experts – from the statement about autocephaly as the only opportunity to achieve unity and recognition of Ukrainian Orthodoxy to the political subtext justification of the new religious organization creation. Church circles represented by representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate claim that the state interferes in the internal Affairs of the Church. The Constitution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine takes place in the context of the confrontation of two social narratives – the «ukrainian world» and the «russian world». The social narrative «ukrainian world» is based on values rooted in the national soil, but the social narrative «russian world» denies the existence of the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state. Under the patronage of the Russian Orthodox Church, the expression of the ideas of the «russian world» is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which enshrines in the minds of believers ideologies about «the common origin of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples», «the common baptismal font», «the unity of the historical space of Holy Rus», «the identity of the East Slavic Orthodox civilization». The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate did not support the decision of patriarch Bartholomew to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Metropolitan Onufriy did not give his blessing to the hierarchs to participate in the Unification Council, which is called «a non-canonical assembly of schismatic groups». The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, according to its primate, has de facto autocephaly, so it is the only canonical local Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In the face of the conflict of public narratives, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, along with meeting the spiritual needs of believers, contributes to the formation of national identity, the formation of a worldview matrix that will determine the vision of the future development of the country.

scholarly journals „Powieść o szwedzkim lęku” czyli kryminał jako zwierciadło zmian społecznych, historycznych i kulturowych na przykładzie cyklu „Wallander” Henninga Mankella

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Anna Jakubowska
Keyword(s):  
Educational Values ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Narrative

The purpose of this thesis is to show how popculture works are expressions of the social narrative of historical, social and cultural changes that took place in Sweden in the 90s. This dissertation is based on Henning Mankell’s Wallander Cycle. This work will focus on the problem created after 1989, speciality the problem of immigration and issue of educational values fall.

Reflections on Organizing and Managing in Self-Managed Knowledge-Work Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 298-315
Author(s):  
James J. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Teams And Teamwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Social Narrative ◽  
Constructionist Theory

This chapter employs social construction, communication, and leadership perspectives as framing for a retrospective analysis of the construction and management of two highly syntalic, cohesive self-managed knowledge-work teams in a service organization operating across culturo-graphic boundaries. The retrospection focuses on the social-narrative construction and development of the self-managed teams and teamwork in the context of fast changing conditions in the business environment. Grounded in the constructionist epistemology, the self-managed teamwork is re-examined from an updated symbolic convergence perspective. The bona fide teams’ stages of development and progress toward convergence and coalition are described. The high cohesiveness and syntality of the teams are re-examined as mindful and heedful interrelating in the light of constructionist theory. The chapter posits communication, especially talk, as critical to constructing and organizing the sets of interacts, roles, and behaviors that are involved in self-managing and self-leading teams.

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