Terrorist Hostage-Taking and Kidnapping: Using Script Theory to Predict the Fate of a Hostage

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 736-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minwoo Yun ◽  
Mitchel Roth
Keyword(s):  
Script Theory

Transformation and Education in GDR Youth Literature: A Script Theory Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Jean E. Conacher
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Youth Literature

Youth literature within the German Democratic Republic (GDR) officially enjoyed equal status with adult literature, with authors often writing for both audiences. Such parity of esteem pre-supposed that youth literature would also adopt the cultural–political frameworks designed to nurture the establishment of socialism on German soil. In their quest to forge a legitimate national literature capable of transforming the population, politicians and writers drew repeatedly upon the cultural heritage of Weimar classicism and the Bildungsroman, Humboldtian educational traditions and Soviet-inspired models of socialist realism. Adopting a script theory approach inspired by Jean Matter Mandler, this article explores how directive cultural policies lead to the emergence of multiple scripts which inform the nature and narrative of individual works. Three broad ideological scripts within GDR youth literature are identified which underpin four distinct narrative scripts employed by individual writers to support, challenge and ultimately subvert the primacy of the Bildungsroman genre. A close reading of works by Strittmatter, Pludra, Görlich, Tetzner and Saalmann reveals further how conceptual blending with classical and fairy-tale scripts is exploited to legitimise and at times mask critique of transformation and education inside and outside the classroom and to offer young protagonists a voice often denied their readers.

scholarly journals The politics of user-platform relationships: Co-scripting live-streaming on Twitch.tv

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Ask ◽  
Hendrik Storstein Spilker ◽  
Martin Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Course Changes ◽  
Individual Use ◽  
The Relationship

What characterises the relationship between users and platforms? How are use and users configured by platform design, and in turn, how do users accept or reject such efforts? Using the live-streaming platform Twitch, this paper explores the user-platform relationship to answer these questions. Twitch is a highly popular live-streaming platform with an emphasis on gaming, whose rise to fame has been far from streamlined or expected. Based on qualitative analysis of design, discourse and user practices, the paper draws on script theory from science and technology studies and platform theory from Internet studies, to unpack the configuration of use and users. By tracing the development of the platform, we identify a pattern of frequent interaction between platform owners and users, and consequent course changes, which we label co-scription. Finally, we analyse the current Twitch script and propose five dimensions of co-scription that determine the user-platform relationship: 1) Sociality: community or individual use; 2) Audience: specific or general; 3) Moderation: strictly moderated or laissez-faire; 4) Content: user-generated or commercial; and 5) Scope: specialised or multi-feature.

Sexuality, Breast Cancer Survivorship, and Script Theory

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aja D. Kneip Pelster ◽  
Jason D. Coleman ◽  
Sofia Jawed-Wessel ◽  
Jay A. Irwin ◽  
Liam Heerten-Rodriguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Survivorship ◽  
Breast Cancer Survivorship ◽  
Script Theory

Flipping the Script

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lynn Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Dietary Change ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Human Diet ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Eating Meat ◽  
Usa Today

This chapter proposes to “Flip the Script” of the prescribed diet in USA today that primarily revolves around eating meat. The consumerization of the consumption of meat is pervasive in this country, and individuals are culturally constructed to believe animal proteins are essential to the human diet. Using script theory, this chapter examines social networking sites (SNSs) as channels for implementing a mass dietary change in today's society, that which excludes meat. Script theory determines that individuals use instrumental knowledge of how to understand, react, and respond to situations that are repeatedly encountered. Being ideal spaces for initiating social changes, SNSs replicate real-life situations and are platforms, whereby messages can be shared, promoted, and exchanged in a global networked public.

Dealing With the Risks of Information Overload

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-293
Author(s):  
Vincent P. Magnini ◽  
Erika Quendler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Tuning Out ◽  
Research Recommendations

While guests go on farm holidays in the hope of receiving authentic and memorable experiences, information overload is a factor that is increasingly detracting from such experiences. For instance, the steady stream of emails, text messages, and news received through social media channels tends to distract from the main experience. To cope with such overload, script theory suggests that guests are increasingly ‘satisficing' their information intake and subconsciously tuning-out much incoming stimuli from their surroundings. This subconscious satisficing makes it more difficult for farm holiday providers to win the guest's full attention in order to create memorable and authentic experiences. Therefore, this chapter synthesizes theories and empirical research from several disciplines with a view to gaining a better understanding of how this modern information overload serves as a formidable threat to farm holiday providers, who typically operate from small family farms. This synthesis is then employed as the basis for a number of practical and research recommendations.

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