Análisis de la dinámica, la estructura y el contenido de los mensajes de Twitter: violencia sexual en #Cuéntalo

Las redes sociales online se han ido convirtiendo en uno de los principales vehículos de comunicación y una de las mayores fuentes de información de actualidad. Esta creciente popularidad deja en evidencia la importancia de que los científicos sociales seamos capaces de analizar, interpretar y comprender en profundidad este nuevo tipo de herramientas. Este artículo tiene como objetivo mostrar los diversos métodos de análisis de la información pública obtenida a partir de una de estas redes, Twitter. Para ello tomamos como ejemplificación explicativa el caso #Cuéntalo, un episodio de narrativa compartida iniciado en esta red entre los días 26 y 28 de abril de 2018 tras la conocida sentencia de “La Manada”. A través de este caso se presentan aquí distintas metodologías para el estudio de los contenidos transmitidos, que van desde los análisis descriptivos más elementales hasta los análisis de contenido, pasando por la clasificación de actores relevantes y el descubrimiento de la estructura de las relaciones entre los protagonistas y sus mensajes. Los resultados muestran cómo esta polémica sentencia derivó en una conversación digital viral donde distintas usuarias (en especial periodistas, escritoras y activistas feministas) comenzaron a compartir sus relatos de situaciones de violencia sexual vividas por las participantes o sus conocidas usando esta etiqueta, siendo capaces de identificar a las principales protagonistas, las distintas relaciones que establecieron entre ellas y sus mensajes y los principales temas que se conformaron en torno a ellos. Online social networks have become one of the main communication vehicles and one of the greatest sources of current information. This growing popularity shows the importance of social scientists being able to analyze, interpret and understand in depth this new type of tools. This article aims to show the diverse methods of analysis of public information obtained from one of these networks, Twitter. To do this, we take as an explanatory example the case of #Cuéntalo, an episode of shared narrative that began on this network between April 26 and 28, 2018 after the well-known sentence of “La Manada”. Through this case, we present different methodologies for the study of broadcasted content, ranging from the most elementary descriptive tools to content analysis, passing through the classification of relevant actors and the discovery of the structure of the relationships amongst their protagonists and their messages. The results show how this controversial sentence led to a viral digital conversation where different users (especially journalists, writers, feminists and influencers) began to share their stories of situations of sexual violence experienced by the participants or their acquaintances using this label. Through this analysis, it was possible to identify the main protagonists, the different relationships that they established between them and their messages and the main themes that were formed around them.

A narrativa compartilhada em jogos de rpg e sua influência na formação do leitor

Resumo O presente artigo é resultante de uma pesquisa documental que apresenta o RPG como ferramenta que desperta o interesse em literatura, especificamente a literatura dos cenários onde o jogo se passa, e cujo objetivo foi investigar a influência desse tipo de narrativa na formação do leitor. Discorre sobre o histórico do RPG e sua ascendência na construção literária de um gênero RPGístico, através de uma análise sobre o jogo de interpretação em sua conceituação, elementos e substratos mecânicos, de forma a compreender a importância do lore dentro dos cenários onde ocorre a narrativa. Verifica as dinâmicas entre os jogadores, narrador e autor através do jogo, considerando o compartilhamento da narrativa. Estabelece diferenciação entre a narrativa compartilhada e a coautoria da narrativa. Investiga o metagame e suas influências dentro da narrativa. Realiza levantamento de informações sobre as Night Witches. Desenvolve estudo de caso para verificar a influência da narrativa compartilhada na formação leitora bem como a capacidade do RPG em colaborar com a formação leitora através desse compartilhamento. Utilizamos a metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica e estudo de caso para desenvolver uma análise epistemológica sobre o tema, investigando conceitos em sua aplicação prática. Constatamos o incentivo à formação leitora ao estimular o jogador a ler mais, sobre o jogo, o sistema, o cenário e outras informações. Destarte, ao inserir o leitor como protagonista, viabiliza aplicar o obtido na experimentação performática e lúdica das experiências literárias, o tornar contador da história e personagem daquilo que ele leu e pode estar lendo. Palavras-chave: Ludicidade; metagame; lore; night witches. Abstract This article is the result of a documental research which presents RPG as a tool to create interest in literature, specifically about the setting of the game and addresses the history of RPG and its influence on creating a literary genre, its objective is to seek the influence of these narratives in reader’s development. This research analyses the role-playing game's concepts, and mechanics to understand the importance of the lore for the game. It verifies the dynamics between players, game master, and author, considering the shared narrative and establishing differences between shared narrative and co-authorship. It also investigates the concept of metagame and its influence within the narrative by collecting information about the Night Witches and developing a case study to verify the influence of the shared narrative in the reader’s formation as well as how RPG assists the reader’s formation by sharing narratives. The results of this study show that RPG encourages the reader’s formation and qualifies the reading process while stimulating players to read more about the game, the system, the setting and other information. The study uses a case study and bibliographical research to develop an epistemological analysis, investigating concepts in their practical application. By inserting the reader as the protagonist, it possible to apply what has been obtained in the performative and playful experimentation of literary experiences, making the reader the story teller and character of what they have read and may be reading. Keywords: Playfullness; metagame; lore; night witches. Resumen Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación documental que presenta al RPG como una herramienta que despierta el interés por la literatura, específicamente la literatura sobre los escenarios donde se desarrolla el juego, y cuyo objetivo fue investigar la influencia de este tipo de narrativas en la formación del lector. Se discute la historia del RPG y su ascendencia en la construcción literaria de un género RPG, a través de un análisis del juego de rol en su conceptualización, elementos y sustratos mecánicos, con el fin de comprender la importancia del lore dentro de los escenarios donde se desarrolla la narrativa. . Comprueba la dinámica entre jugadores, narrador y autor a lo largo del juego, considerando el intercambio de la narrativa. Distingue entre narrativa compartida y coautoría narrativa. Investiga el metajuego y sus influencias dentro de la narrativa. Realiza una encuesta de información sobre las Brujas Nocturnas. Desarrolla un estudio de caso para verificar la influencia de la narrativa compartida en la formación del lector, así como la capacidad de los juegos de rol para colaborar con la formación del lector a través de este intercambio. Utilizamos la metodología de la investigación bibliográfica y el estudio de casos para desarrollar un análisis epistemológico sobre el tema, investigando conceptos en su aplicación práctica. Vemos el estímulo de la formación del lector al animar al jugador a leer más sobre el juego, el sistema, el escenario y otra información. Así, al insertar al lector como protagonista, permite aplicar lo obtenido en la experimentación performativa y lúdica de experiencias literarias, convirtiéndose en narrador y personaje de lo que ha leído y puede estar leyendo. Palabras clave: Alegría; metagame; ciencia; brujas de la noche.

Multiscalar Architectures

Many of the great advances in modern computing are supplied by modeling architectures that practice a crucial division in descriptive labor by asking distinct forms of submodeling to work together in cooperative harmony without engaging in a straightforward amalgamation of conclusions. Commonly these distinct submodels are aligned with characteristic scale lengths within their target systems so that a preliminary modeling (Δ‎H) that calculates how a system normally behaves upon a macroscopic scale becomes subjected to corrective suggestions arising from a lower-scale modeling (Δ‎L) that focuses upon the local factors that occasionally upset the behavioral presumptions codified within the Δ‎H scheme. The syntactic safeguards within this technique that avert inconsistency and an unmanageable explosion in computational complexity keep their various levels of submodeling isolated from one another. They only pass corrective messages of a specialized character (called “homogenizations”) amongst themselves without attempting to fully amalgamate their localized conclusions into a shared narrative. The computational architecture merely demands that the various submodels reach accord with respect to the homogenization messages that they exchange amongst themselves. This book argues that unnoticed reasoning arrangements of this kind provide the proper diagnosis of the “Mystery of Physics 101” tensions that troubled Hertz (the distinct usages of “force” he noticed operate upon distinct size scales in the manner of a modern multiscalar scheme). It is then suggested that the natural development of many forms of linguistic attainment lead to reasoning architectures of this general character, although we often fail to recognize the subtle strategies that undergird their operations.

The master narrative of older employees in changing workplaces

PurposeInterest in older employees increases in times of population ageing. Previous research exploring the situation has underlined older employees' struggle with workplace changes. However, it has not explored their master narrative – the socially shared narrative about older employees that steers behaviour. This study explores this narrative and its differences across changing workplaces. It draws on Lyotard's suggestion that master narratives disintegrate in post-modern societies.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducts focus groups among older Finnish employees of an airline, postal service and social care. These groups experienced different kinds of workplace changes, namely mass layoffs, digitalisation and restructuring. The focus groups highlight the individuals' shared narratives, thereby pinpointing the master narrative.FindingsThe master narrative describes how simultaneous changes at the workplace and in their health lead older employees to look for ways to exit their jobs. This narrative is largely stable across workplaces, showing no disintegration but some variation.Originality/valueThis is the first study on the master narrative of older employees and its disintegration. To the authors’ knowledge, it is also the first study to use focus groups to explore a master narrative.

Modelling social readers: novel tools for addressing reception from online book reviews

Social reading sites offer an opportunity to capture a segment of readers’ responses to literature, while data-driven analysis of these responses can provide new critical insight into how people ‘read’. Posts discussing an individual book on the social reading site, Goodreads , are referred to as ‘reviews’, and consist of summaries, opinions, quotes or some mixture of these. Computationally modelling these reviews allows one to discover the non-professional discussion space about a work, including an aggregated summary of the work’s plot, an implicit sequencing of various subplots and readers’ impressions of main characters. We develop a pipeline of interlocking computational tools to extract a representation of this reader-generated shared narrative model. Using a corpus of reviews of five popular novels, we discover readers’ distillation of the novels’ main storylines and their sequencing, as well as the readers’ varying impressions of characters in the novel. In so doing, we make three important contributions to the study of infinite-vocabulary networks: (i) an automatically derived narrative network that includes meta-actants; (ii) a sequencing algorithm, REV2SEQ, that generates a consensus sequence of events based on partial trajectories aggregated from reviews, and (iii) an ‘impressions’ algorithm, SENT2IMP, that provides multi-modal insight into readers’ opinions of characters.

Project Earthrise: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health

The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health. This builds on the emergent concept of planetary health, which provides a shared narrative to integrate rich and diverse approaches from all aspects of society towards shared solutions to global challenges. The acute catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to many other interconnected global health, environmental, social, spiritual, and economic problems that have been underappreciated or neglected for decades. This is accelerating opportunities for greater collaborative action, as many groups now focus on the necessity of a “Great Transition”. While ambitious integrative efforts have never been more important, it is imperative to apply these with mutualistic value systems as a compass, as we seek to make wiser choices. Project Earthrise is our contribution to this important process. This underscores the imperative for creative ecological solutions to challenges in all systems, on all scales with advancing global urbanization in the digital age—for personal, environmental, economic and societal health alike. At the same time, our agenda seeks to equally consider our social and spiritual ecology as it does natural ecology. Revisiting the inspiration of “Earthrise”, we welcome diverse perspectives from across all dimensions of the arts and the sciences, to explore novel solutions and new normative values. Building on academic rigor, we seek to place greater value on imagination, kindness and mutualism as we address our greatest challenges, for the health of people, places and planet.

Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation

Conversation is the platform where minds meet: the venue where information is shared, ideas cocreated, cultural norms shaped, and social bonds forged. Its frequency and ease belie its complexity. Every conversation weaves a unique shared narrative from the contributions of independent minds, requiring partners to flexibly move into and out of alignment as needed for conversation to both cohere and evolve. How two minds achieve this coordination is poorly understood. Here we test whether eye contact, a common feature of conversation, predicts this coordination by measuring dyadic pupillary synchrony (a corollary of shared attention) during natural conversation. We find that eye contact is positively correlated with synchrony as well as ratings of engagement by conversation partners. However, rather than elicit synchrony, eye contact commences as synchrony peaks and predicts its immediate and subsequent decline until eye contact breaks. This relationship suggests that eye contact signals when shared attention is high. Furthermore, we speculate that eye contact may play a corrective role in disrupting shared attention (reducing synchrony) as needed to facilitate independent contributions to conversation.

Eye Contact Marks The Rise And Fall of Shared Attention in Conversation

Conversation is the platform where minds meet —the venue where information is shared, ideas co-created, cultural norms shaped, and social bonds forged. Its frequency and ease belie its complexity. Every conversation weaves a unique shared narrative from the contributions of independent minds, requiring partners to flexibly move into and out of alignment as needed for conversation to both cohere and evolve. How two minds achieve this coordination is poorly understood. Here we test whether eye contact, a common feature of conversation, predicts this coordination by measuring dyadic pupillary synchrony (a corollary of shared attention) during natural conversation. We find that eye contact is positively correlated with synchrony as well as ratings of engagement by conversation partners. However, rather than elicit synchrony, eye contact commences as synchrony peaks and predicts its immediate and subsequent decline until eye contact breaks. This relationship suggests that eye contact signals when shared attention is high. Further, we speculate that eye contact may play a corrective role in disrupting shared attention (reducing synchrony) as needed to facilitate independent contributions to conversation.

A reflective process to explore identity in an emerging wine territory: the example of British Columbia

Purpose Identity is often used in wine territory narratives but its meaning is rarely explored with industry actors. This paper aims to present the development and application of a four-step iterative process for engaging an industry in a complex and deep reflection about its shared identity: understanding identity; identifying commonalities and differences; developing a shared narrative and sharing best practice. Design/methodology/approach The authors have engaged with over 50 wineries between 2016 and 2018 on the identity of the British Columbia wine territory through workshops, interviews and other conversations. Complementary methods include documentary review and observations. Findings The work shows the applicability of the four-step process. Success depends on building relationships with and across the industry; creating independent, safe learning environments and facilitation by an independent party; allowing for feedback between the steps, continuous reflection and reiteration of steps and making the time for complexity. Practical implications The application of the process in British Columbia shows that success depends on building relationships with and across the industry; creating independent, safe learning environments and making the time for complexity. Originality/value The paper presents the application of a unique process for industry to explore the identity of a wine territory. It focuses on British Columbia, about which little has been written. Through the process, the industry can better understand identity, what it is, why it matters and how it impacts businesses. The paper’s insights can inspire researchers and industries in their thinking and practice about identity.

Burning Woman: Sexualized Robots and the Vilification of Women in Metropolis and its Precursors

The vilification and subsequent destruction of feminine robots is a surprisingly common trope in film and literature. This essay draws connections between three very different works—Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Villier’s Tomorrow’s Eve, and E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman—and posits a shared narrative reason for the deaths of the three artificial women: male projection. Comparing and contrasting the three death scenes with each other as well as other texts on feminine literature and projection demonstrates how little substance there is to these “out of control” women/technologies beyond the faults of the men who create them. Furthermore, this essay brings up a prudent question: could these artificial women have become something more if it were not for the displaced guilt and projected egos of the men around them?