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Zusatztext In the era of fact wars and post truth, the ability to tell, listen to, and interpret stories is our cultural backbone. It paves the road to personal balance. Hartley demonstrates, yet again, that meaning lies everywhere and it is up to us to document it, through storytelling. An outstanding and original contribution. Informationen zum Autor John Hartley is Professor in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Sydney, Australia. He previously worked at Curtin University, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, as Dean of Creative Industries and ARC Federation Fellow, and Cardiff University, UK, as head of the School of Journalism and Media. He has published over 30 books and many articles on media, journalism, creative industries and digital culture. Vorwort Reconnects the sciences and humanities to understand how knowledge technologies and cultural systems intersect and innovate at global scale. Zusammenfassung Using compelling examples and analysis, this open access book How We Use Stories and Why That Matters shows what the New York Shakespeare Riots tell us about class struggle, what Death Cab for Cutie tells us about media, what Kate Moss’s wedding dress tells us about authorship, and how Westworld and Humans imagine very different futures for Artificial Intelligence: one based on slavery, the other on class. Together, these knowledge stories tell us about how intimate human communication is organised and used to stage organised conflict, to test the ‘fighting fitness’ of contending groups – provoking new stories, identities and classes along the way.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Phenomenon3 Smiling or Smiting? Selves, States and Stories in the Constitution of Polities4 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 Difference10 Reading Magazines: Taking Death Cab for Cutie … from Shed to Dalston11 What is Television? A Guide for Knowing Subjects12 World Class: Girls as a Problem of Knowledge Acknowledgements References Index ...
