A wide variety of motivations for engaging with narratives have been proposed and studied. We propose that underlying these motivations is another, more fundamental motivation. Our premise is that ...maintenance, defense, and regulation of the personal and social self in daily life are demanding both emotionally and cognitively. Moreover, any individual self is constrained by capability, situation, and social role. Stories and identification with story characters provide a means individuals may use for temporary relief from the task of self‐regulation and from the limitations of individual personal and social identities. Existing supportive research is acknowledged and implications explored, concerning contexts in which story involvement will be particularly attractive and possible impacts on attitudes and acceptance of out‐groups including stigmatized others.
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism Broussard, Meredith; Diakopoulos, Nicholas; Guzman, Andrea L. ...
Journalism & mass communication quarterly,
09/2019, Volume:
96, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
As a descriptor, artificial intelligence (AI) is polysemous and problematic. Like the muddled “big data” before it, this term du jour tends to be invoked broadly and haphazardly, by boosters as well ...as critics in some cases, making it difficult to discern exactly what AI is supposed to represent in the world, let alone how it is intended to work as a means of performing human tasks. Amid this confusion surrounding the definition of AI and its emergent role in everyday life, this special forum attempts to carve out an elaboration on AI in the context of journalism—a key domain through which to illustrate many of the opportunities and challenges that AI presents for the broader realm of communication, media, and society.
Éthique de l'iconophilie Maffesoli, Michel
Sociétés (Paris),
01/2021, Volume:
151, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Le monde social est imprégné d'images qui fécondent la socialité et impactent notre expérience où l'on constate une véritable esthétisation de la vie quotidienne. Cette esthétisation est le signe ...d'une épiphanie du réel avec la centralité de l'iconophilie qu'il faut entendre comme l'émergence de signes comme le frivole, l'apparence, l'émotionnel, qui façonnent l'imaginaire social et structurent un hédonisme du quotidien fondé sur les communions émotionnelles.
This article develops a conceptual framework that prompts new lines of enquiry and questions for security researchers. We advance the notion of 'everyday security', which encompasses both the lived ...experiences of security processes and the related practices that people engage in to govern their own safety. Our analysis proceeds from a critical appraisal of several dominant themes within current security research, and how 'everyday security' addresses key limitations therein. Everyday experiences and quotidian practices of security are then explored along three key dimensions: temporality, spatial scale and affect/emotion. We conclude by arguing that the study of everyday security provides an invaluable critical vantage point from which to reinvigorate security studies and expose the differential impacts of both insecurity and securitization.
Definitions of Solitude in Everyday Life Weinstein, Netta; Hansen, Heather; Nguyen, Thuy-vy
Personality & social psychology bulletin,
12/2023, Volume:
49, Issue:
12
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
What does it mean to be in solitude? Researchers building this nascent field are learning much about the potential affordances of solitude, but lack an agreed-upon definition or set of definitions. ...Arriving at that meaning is crucial to forming a solid foundation for studies that use both naturalistic and laboratory designs to explore outcomes of solitude. This study identified themes from semi-structured interviews with adults aged 19 to 80 from diverse backgrounds. We concluded that solitude is a state in which the dominant relationship is with the self. If not physically alone, people in solitude are mentally distanced from others and away from active technology-mediated interactions. Complete solitude involves both physical separation and inner focus, but solitude is best defined through a taxonomy that recognizes physical separation and internal focus as independent, sufficient characteristics. An internal focus benefits from (but is not defined by) balancing solitude with social time, quiet, and choice.
The high prevalence rates of mental disorders worldwide and the paucity of services constitute a mental health crisis. The vast majority of people in low-, middle-, and high-income countries do not ...receive any intervention for their symptoms of mental disorders, despite enormous advances in developing evidence-based psychosocial treatments and medications. The article proposes greater utilization of interventions in everyday life as an addition to the more traditional and commonly used mental-health interventions. The article delineates criteria to help identify what such interventions ought to include to permit accessibility, scalability, and reach to special populations. Physical activity, contact with nature, and yoga are examples to illustrate the class of everyday interventions that have evidence attesting to their impact on mental health and symptoms of psychopathology. The challenge is to integrate such interventions in mental health practices to better promote these at the population level and to monitor the impact. Many components of what is needed are in place but are not coordinated in an effective way to have widespread impact on mental health.
Public Significance Statement
Most individuals with mental disorders receive no treatment. This article focuses on activities in everyday life that can improve mental health, decrease psychiatric symptoms, and surmount many of the barriers that impede obtaining treatment. The activities are posed to promote a class of interventions known to improve mental health, are readily available, and overcome many of the barriers to receiving mental health services.
Resumo Neste artigo, que tem como foco uma análise da representação do consumo na periferia no livro de contos No país da infância (2019), da escritora brasileira Cris Lira, argumento que, por meio ...de uma perspectiva cotidiana, no sentido lefebvriano, que vê o cotidiano como algo “humilde e sólido”, as histórias de Lira refletem e ao mesmo tempo constroem experiências e narrativas afetivas e críticas do que significa/significou crescer na periferia brasileira nos anos 1980 e 90 diante das pressões da sociedade de consumo. Demonstro que Lira (2019), ao imaginar os usos de várias mercadorias, identifica o que Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) chama de “crises”, ou seja, pequenas interrupções do cotidiano que a experiência estética com bens de consumo pode produzir. Nessa perspectiva, No país da infância tece uma crítica esperançosa do cotidiano da sociedade de consumo, alinhando-se a autores como Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) em sua representação da periferia, conforme demonstro em outro trabalho (Bezerra, 2022).
Abstract In this article, which focuses on the representation of consumption in the periphery in the short story collection No país da infância (2019), by Brazilian writer Cris Lira, I argue that, through an approach to everyday life, in Henri Lefébrvre's sense, which frames the everyday as that which is “humble and solid,” Lira's stories reflect and at the same time create affective and critical experiences of what it means to grow up in the Brazilian periphery in the 1980s and 1990s in the face of the pressures of consumer culture. I argue that Lira, by imagining the uses of several commodities, identifies what Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) calls “crises,” that is, small interruptions of everyday life (302) that the aesthetic experience with commodities is capable of producing. From this perspective, No país da infância makes a hopeful critique of consumer society, aligning itself with writers such as Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) in their representation of the periphery, as I argue elsewhere (Bezerra, 2022).
Resumen En este artículo, el cual hace un análisis de la representación del consumo en la periferia en el libro de cuentos No país da infância (2019), de la escritora brasileña Cris Lira, argumento que, por medio de una perspectiva cotidiana, en el sentido lefebvriano, que define lo cotidiano como algo “humilde y sólido”, las historias de Lira reflejan e al mismo tiempo construyen experiencias y narrativas afectivas y críticas de lo que significa/significó crecer en la periferia brasileña en los años 1980 y 1990 frente a las presiones de la sociedad de consumo. Argumento que Lira, al imaginar los usos de varias marcancías, identifica lo que Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) llama de “crisis”, o sea, pequeñas interrupciones de lo cotidiano (302) que la experiencia estética con productos puede producir. A partir de esa perspectiva, No país da infância teje una crítica de esperanza de lo cotidiano en la sociedad de consumo, semejante a autores como Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) en su representación de la periferia, conforme argumento en otro trabajo (Bezerra, 2022).
A focus on the materiality within ageing studies brings into focus the material dimensions of space, rhythms and material objects in everyday life. The aim of this paper is to explore meanings around ...space in the context of the daily lives of people growing older and how materiality is embodied, embedded and performed in the material and social context of our everyday lives. The paper draws on data from the empirical research study Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space funded by the ESRC, UK. The focus of the project was to explore the significance of the ordinary and day-to-day and focus on the everyday meanings, lived experiences, practical activities, and social contexts in which people in mid-to-later life live their daily lives. The research involved a diverse sample of 62 women and men aged 50 years and over who took photographs of their different daily routines to create a weekly visual diary. The data reveals three interconnecting whilst analytically distinct themes within the materiality of ageing and the spaces around everyday life: (1) Space, materiality and everyday life; (2) Rhythms, routines and materiality; and (3) Social and material connectivity. The paper concludes by highlighting a complex engagement with space, in which participants drew and re-drew boundaries surrounding meanings of space, sometimes within the same interview or even within a discussion of the same photograph. Moreover, a focus on materiality has elicited rich and illuminating accounts of how people in mid-to-later life experience the intersections between ageing, bodies, time and space in their everyday lives.
•Visual diaries on everyday life.•Explorations of materiality, rhythms and ageing – linking theory with data.•Novel insights into space, place and everyday life.
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