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\"When Halley Faust is handed the opportunity to move two steps up the corporate ladder, she laces up her shoes and starts climbing. But her covert battles with coworkers - equal parts funny and cringe-worthy - leave everyone wondering: how far do you have to go to achieve success?\"--Provided by publisher.
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Beyond the Silver Screen: Exploring Future Public Life Through Sociological Film Analysis
This study seeks to interrogate prospective configurations of public life through science fiction films, particularly by addressing the effects of technological advances and changes on society. In the study’s methodology, 27 films were assessed using the sociological film analysis method. In these films, an analysis was conducted on thematic elements, encompassing aspects such as the physical environment, socio-cultural structures, public life, technological infrastructure, and dynamics of human relationships. As a result, a codex of thematic codes was meticulously crafted. The main findings indicate that the films contain scenarios that discuss the boundaries of public space and reflect future social structures. The emphasis appears to be on how and to what extent technology is used. This research presents novel ideas and a platform for discussion for urban planning, architecture, social sciences, and film studies. The originality of this study lies in its analysis of cinematographic content from a sociological standpoint, providing an in-depth perspective on the future of public life and adding a new dimension to the existing body of knowledge on the subject.
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Understanding the Future of Public Life through Movies: A Sociological Perspective
This study explores what public life might look like in the future through the lens of science fiction movies, with a focus on how technological advancements and societal changes affect us. In our research, we analyzed 27 films using a method that examines films from a sociological perspective. We looked at themes in these movies, including the physical environment, social and cultural structures, public life, technological infrastructure, and the dynamics of human relationships. From this analysis, we created a detailed set of thematic categories. The main findings show that these films present scenarios discussing the limits of public spaces and envision future social formations. A key aspect highlighted is the extent and manner in which technology is utilized. This research offers new insights and a basis for discussion in the fields of urban planning, architecture, social sciences, and film studies. What makes this study unique is its approach to analyzing movie content from a sociological viewpoint, providing a deep look into the future of public life and adding a new dimension to our understanding of the topic.
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Behind her back
StoryWorld is the nation's favourite morning show, and producer Liz Lyon wants to keep it that way. Her job is to turn real-life stories into thrilling TV - and keep a lid on the cauldron of conflicts and resentments that constantly simmers off-stage. But that's easier said than done. The Director of Programmes hasn't forgiven Liz for blackmailing him last year. The News Editor wants to destroy Liz because she knows his secrets. And Liz's lead presenter has returned from maternity leave to find she's now sharing the sofa with her hated male rival... In this gripping novel of power, rivalry and betrayal, Jane Lythell draws on her experiences of working in the glamorous, pressurised world of live TV.
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Patricia Leavy’s Spark as a Novel and Metaphor for Creative Interdisciplinary Research
Spark by Patricia Leavy follows Sociology Professor Peyton Wilde as she travels to remote Iceland to participate in a mysterious scholarly seminar. Set in a moody grand manor with an enigmatic host and an eclectic cast of characters, the story blends intellectual intrigue with personal discovery and highlights the strength of Leavy’s social fiction: her characterisation, her use of motifs, and her attention to questions at the heart of scholarly work. This article reflects on the research tensions, interpersonal differences and everyday materialities that animate the story and raise valuable questions for interdisciplinary collaboration. For those interested in fiction and research, whether through creative writing or literary analysis, Spark shows how to blend social research and storytelling in vibrant, imaginative and poetic ways. It demonstrates the possibilities of fusing these realms to create a compelling and thought-provoking narrative.
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Crimetime: Toughness, Gender, and Genre in Philippine Detective Fiction
This article reads Maria L.M. Fres-Felix's collection of stories featuring Filipina detective SJ Tuason, Crimetime, to explore Tuason's performance of gender-neutral toughness as a policing mechanism in Quezon City. Tuason uses toughness to expose and combat the culturally specific systems of corruption in the Philippines that contribute to antifeminist structures and violent crimes against women.
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Motivation for writing long online reviews: a big data analysis of an anime community
PurposeBased on self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to determine the motivation factors of reviewers writing long reviews in the anime industry.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes 171,188 online review data collected from an online anime community (MyAnimeList.net).FindingsThe findings show that intensity of emotions, experience in writing reviews and helpful votes in past reviews are the most important factors and positively influence review length. The overall rating of the anime moderates the effects of some motivation factors. Moreover, reviewers commenting on their favorite or nonfavorite anime also have varied motivation factors. Furthermore, this study has addressed the p-value problem due to the large sample size.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides a comprehensive and theoretical understanding of reviewers' motivation for writing long reviews.Practical implicationsOnline communities can incorporate the insights from this study into website design and motivate reviewers to write long reviews.Originality/valueMany past studies have investigated what reviews are more helpful. Review length is the most important factor of review helpfulness and positively affects it. However, few studies have examined the determinants of review length. This study attempts to address this issue.
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
The classic tale of existential despair
A Wall Street lawyer specializing in bonds and mortgages hires a respectable young man to copy legal documents by hand. At first, the new scrivener approaches his duties with a calm efficiency. Then comes the day when his response to a new assignment is, \"I would prefer not to.\" The mysterious phrase soon becomes Bartleby's reply to everything asked of him, and his surrender to inertia is both maddening and inexorable. Torn between frustration and pity, anger and sorrow, his employer desperately tries to save Bartleby, but the cause is as doomed to disappointment as life itself.
A strange and haunting fable that continues to resonate a century and a half after it was first published, Bartleby, the Scrivener is a masterpiece of American literature.
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An analysis of happiness and resilience in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to pronounce knife
This article examines the literary representation of the complexities of the refugee experience in five short stories from Souvankham Thammavongsa’s collection How to pronounce knife. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s (2010) notion of happiness, it investigates how the stories expose the harmful effects of neoliberal scripts on refugees’ wellbeing and interpersonal relations. Moreover, it highlights the characters’ refusal to comply with normative expectations that cast refugees primarily through discourses of trauma, pain, or suffering. Instead, Thammavongsa portrays a community of Lao refugees who, by resisting these prescriptive narratives, cultivate affective bonds of care and solidarity. I argue that such practices emerge as forms of relational resilience that challenge erasure and invisibility, offering alternative ways of imagining refugee life beyond dominant representational frameworks.
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This Fragile New World: Tales of Futures Without DEI in Higher Education
Since the 2023 Supreme Court decision, which declared race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions unconstitutional, the national climate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, especially those addressing racial and ethnic disparities in higher education, has undergone a dramatic shift. Most recently, presidential executive orders and state legislation aimed at dismantling DEI in higher education have resulted in many colleges not only eliminating their DEI offices and staff but also any program, initiative, and funding explicitly related to race and ethnicity. Drawing on the current discourse, the author utilizes Afrofuturism and future scenario planning to construct three different fictional stories to illustrate possible impacts, challenges, and strategies for navigating a future without formal structures that support DEI in higher education. Following each story, the author provides practical strategies for how institutions, DEI professionals, and DEI advocates can navigate these potential futures to maintain support for DEI.
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