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The North Wind & the Sun
\"The cruel North Wind and the kind Sun vie to take the coats from three sisters out on a walk\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Boosting popularity: Folk theories and algorithmic resistance of visibility contests in the comment sections
This study examines the collective actions of Chinese netizens in contesting algorithm visibility through popularity-boosting comments. Employing a netnographic approach within the theoretical frameworks of algorithm resistance and folk theories, the research analyzes popularity-boosting comments (N = 900) and discussions regarding these practices (N = 492) on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Weibo. The findings reveal that algorithmic resistance effectively sustains the lifecycle of posts and extends their dissemination. Netizens primarily engage in this resistance along two pathways: Within and beyond the algorithmic framework. Within the framework, conflicting folk theories trigger netizens’ internal power struggles, undermining the consistency and continuity of collective algorithmic resistance. Beyond the algorithmic framework, strategies such as creating viral memes and manually commenting on popular posts about trending events introduce innovative forms of algorithmic resistance. However, overall, regardless of whether within or beyond the algorithmic framework, netizens’ algorithmic resistance behavior is characterized by internal conflicts and relatively loose collective action. This study offers new insights into expanding the concept of algorithmic resistance, enriching the collective algorithmic resistance behaviors of netizens, and the negotiation of conflicting folk theories within those groups. It provides important implications for future research on the complex power struggles between algorithms and netizens.
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Cinderella takes the stage
\"Young Cinderella makes a surprising new friend as they each compete in the Midsummer Festival's puppet contest\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Storytelling in daily life : performing narrative
Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and get a life. So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely stop to ask: what are these stories? How do they shape our lives? And why do they matter?The authors ably guide readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders information and tasks, constitutes meanings, and positions speaking subjects. Readers will also learn that narrative performance is consequential as well as pervasive, as storytelling opens up experience and identities to legitimization and critique. The authors' multi-leveled model of strategy and tactics considers how relations of power in a system are produced, reproduced, and altered in performing narrative.The authors explain this strategic model through an extended discussion of family storytelling, using Franco Americans in Maine as their exemplar. They explore what stories families tell, how they tell them, and how storytelling creates family identities. Then, they show the range and reach of this strategic model by examining storytelling in diverse contexts: a breast cancer narrative, a weblog on the Internet, and an autobiographical performance on the public stage. Readers are left with a clear understanding of how and why the performance of narrative is the primary communicative practice shaping our lives today.
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Rebellion of thieves
Robyn Loxley plans to sieze the opportunity to rescue her parents from the governor's mansion by competing in the Iron Teen contest, although success could bring unwanted attention from Crown.
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Becoming a Maya Woman
Indigenous beauty pageants can be seen as a way of re-appropriating indigenous identity. This article approaches beauty pageants as being situated in multiple systems of power at four levels of contestation: (1) reproducing gender relations and creating new professional and political opportunities; (2) constituting a site for cultural and political agency and delimiting the ways to ‘be a Maya woman’; (3) reproducing class relations in terms of access to the event and contributing to social awareness of beauty queens; (4) as a social event consolidating (gender) relations within the family. The findings are based on longitudinal (2002–14) ethnographic fieldwork in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Los concursos de belleza indígena pueden ser vistos como una forma de reapropiación de la identidad indígena. Este artículo ve a los concursos de belleza como situados en múltiples sistemas de poder repartidos en cuatro niveles de contestación: (1) al reproducir las relaciones de género y crear nuevas oportunidades profesionales y políticas; (2) al constituir un sitio para la agencia cultural y política y delimitar las formas de ‘ser mujer maya’; (3) al reproducir las relaciones de clase al tener acceso al evento y contribuir a la conciencia social de las reinas de belleza; (4) como un evento social que consolida relaciones (de género) al interior de la familia. Los hallazgos se basan en un trabajo etnográfico longitudinal en Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (2002–14).
Concursos de beleza indígena podem ser vistos como uma maneira de reapropriação da identidade indígena. Este artigo vê concursos de beleza situados em sistemas de poder a quatro níveis de contestação: (1) reproduzindo relações de gênero e criando novas oportunidades políticas e profissionais; (2) estabelecendo um lugar de agência política e cultural e delimitando maneiras de ‘ser uma mulher Maya’; (3) reproduzindo relações de classe no que diz respeito ao acesso ao evento e contribuindo para uma consciência social das ‘misses’; (4) funcionando como um evento social que visa consolidar relações (de gênero) no núcleo familiar. As descobertas são baseadas em trabalho de campo de etnografia longitudinal (2002–14) em Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
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