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Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
wiley   +1 more source

The Digital Grotesque

open access: yes
Abstract This chapters unravels the concept of the digital grotesque. It examines how grotesque aesthetics have been part of the creative process of artists, from sounds to images. The chapter suggests that artists and writers have experimented with ugliness throughout history as a form of political protest as well as affective resonance.
openaire   +1 more source

A Feeling for History? Bakhtin and `The Problem of Great Time' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
‘Great time’ has usually been seen as a ‘late term’ of Bakhtin’s. However, although it occurs most frequently in works written in the 1960s and 1970s, there is one known instance of its use in the 1940s.
SHEPHERD, D
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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grotesque elements in two selected short stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study aims to identify and analyse grotesque elements in two selected short stories: The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker (1847–1912), an Irish writer, and The Cursed Citadel by an Iranian writer, Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951).
Haghighi, Hana, Talif, Rosli
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“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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