How We Use Stories and Why That Matters
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8329-8 (ISBN)
This book guides the reader through the tangled undergrowth of communication and cultural expression towards a new understanding of the role of group-mediating stories at global and digital scale. It argues that media and networked systems perform and bind group identities, creating bordered fictions within which economic and political activities are made meaningful. Now that computational and global scale, big data, metadata and algorithms rule the roost even in culture, subjectivity and meaning, we need population-scale frameworks to understand individual, micro-scale sense-making practices. To achieve that, we need evolutionary and systems approaches to understand cultural performance and dynamics.
The opposing universes of fact (science, knowledge, education) and fiction (entertainment, story and imagination) – so long separated into the contrasting disciplines of natural sciences and the humanities – can now be understood as part of one turbulent sphere of knowledge-production and innovation.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
John Hartley has worked in senior positions in Australia at Curtin University, as John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Cultural Science, and at Queensland University of Technology, as Australian Federation Fellow and dean of Creative Industries. Previously he was first head of the Journalism School at Cardiff University in Wales, UK. He has held visiting scholar positions in the USA, UK, China, Germany and Denmark, and served on ministerial advisory bodies in Australia, China, Thailand and Indonesia. He was awarded the Order of Australia for service to education, and holds elected fellowships of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Learned Society of Wales, and International Communication Association. He has published more than 30 books in communication, cultural and media studies, including Cultural Science (with Jason Potts, 2014), Creative Economy and Culture (with Wen Wen and Henry Li, 2015), and How We Use Stories and Why That Matters (2020).
Prolegomenon. Cultural Science in Action
1 Causes and Classes: Communicative Causation, Mediated Subjectivity
Part 1. System (Theory): Demes and Communicative Causation
2 Pushing Back: Social Media as an Evolutionary Phenomenon
3 Smiling or Smiting? Selves, States and Stories in the Constitution of Polities
4 Armed and Wild: What Hope for Open Knowledge?
5 Intellectual Property: Industry versus Language? (Something Fishy Going On)
6 Intellectuals: Three Phases – Paris, Public, Club
Part 2. Agent (Practices): Knowing Subjects and Mediated Subjectivity
7 Authorship and the Narrative of the Self: The Gods (Shakespeare) à No-one (Vogue) à Everyone (Dazed)
8 Shakespearean Class Struggle: ‘The Pit Has Often Laid Down the Law for the Boxes’
9 Staged Conflict: Dialogic Monuments and Dancing Difference
10 Reading Magazines: Taking Death Cab for Cutie … from Shed to Dalston
11 What is Television? A Guide for Knowing Subjects
12 World Class: Girls as a Problem of Knowledge
Acknowledgements
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 34 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8329-9 / 1501383299 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8329-8 / 9781501383298 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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