Gossip as a Burdened Virtue

Alfano, Mark; Robinson, Brian

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“…Since they had no channel to express their dissatisfaction and criticism openly, they could only use the mailing list and face-to-face interaction with other members of the organization as a way to articulate their frustration. Despite this, Member A and member B simultaneously warn others about the landlords that they believed to be oppressors, which further support Alfano and Robinson's (2017) findings.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Foster's stance, along with other scholars, opens an alternative way of viewing gossip which apparently also plays an important role in our social interactions, especially in our interpersonal and organizational communication. In terms of power relations, gossip allows the oppressed people confidentially to warn those in similar position about the oppressors (Alfano & Robinson, 2017).…”

Section: Gossipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gossip and Hidden Transcript in The Online and Offline Interaction: The Case of Closed Group Communication

Sukandar¹

2019

j-cmre

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Gossip and Hidden Transcript in The Online and Offline Interaction: The Case of Closed Group Communication

Sukandar¹

2019

j-cmre

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“…Passive resistance might entail playing dumb or avoiding work (Crowley, 2012; Fleming & Spicer, 2007). Where resistance is more active it might include simulation of productivity (Ybema & Horvers, 2017), working to rule (Alcadipani, Hassard, & Islam, 2018), machine sabotage (Dubois, 1979), gossip (Alfano & Robinson, 2017), irony (Rhodes & Badham, 2018) or criticism of absent superiors (Hodson, 2001; Scott, 1990). Forms of collective resistance, ranging from undercover organized activities, such as publishing newspapers in ghettos or mounting unofficial educational programmes (Martí & Fernández, 2013), through to insurrections, defined as ‘collective, owned and publicly declared forms of resistance that aim to challenge, or unsettle existing social relations, forms of organizing and/or institutions’ (Mumby et al, 2017, p. 1170), are increasingly acknowledged (Courpasson & Martí, 2019).…”

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Rethinking Resistance as an Act of Improvisation: Lessons from the 1914 Christmas Truce

Wiedemann

Cunha

Clegg

2019

Organization Studies

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We examine the historical phenomenon of truces, as these occurred during a period of intense warfare during World War I, around Christmas 1914. These were processes of resistance that could not have been planned (otherwise they would obviously have been thwarted by authority) and that occurred in a setting with continuously changing conditions. Our purpose in making this analysis is to identify the micro-foundations and behaviours of enacting resistance and forming a truce under conditions where planning and executing cannot be assumed to be orderly and linear. We discuss the battlefield context of intense competition and mutual suffering as an organizational setting in order to provide a more precise explanation of how rules and structures can be (at least) temporarily suspended in the workplace. We rethink the construct of resistance as an act of improvisation; we do so by developing a framework that explains how resistance can emerge and be quashed in workplace settings that might appear at first sight to be immune. Therefore, we combine two themes that have largely been separated in theory: resistance and improvisation. Doing so opens new ground in three ways. First, we contribute to literature about resistance by explaining how it was constructed as action suspending rules and structures in hostile contexts. Second, we show the political-motivational dimension of improvisation. Third, we extend the notion of truce as not an end in itself (a temporary settlement) but as an avenue to achieve a real objective (e.g. to change the course of history for the better).

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“…Second, in most societies the act of gossiping, but also of strategically "managing" one's own reputation or "damaging" the reputation of others, tends to be normatively regulated and morally laden (Alfano & Robinson, 2017;Bertolotti & Magnani, 2014;Fernandes, Kapoor, & Karandikar, 2017;Peters & Kashima, 2015;Radzik, 2016). The discourse on gossip illustrates this nicely, since for each negative view on gossip, there is a positive one.…”

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Introduction

Giardini¹,

Wittek²

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

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This introductory chapter sketches the contours of an emerging multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research program on the conceptual foundations, antecedents, dynamics, and consequences of gossip and reputation. It argues that this research agenda should be developed along three interrelated dimensions. First, gossip and reputation are multifaceted theoretical constructs that share at least six key characteristics. Both are relational and triadic, morally laden, multifunctional, and context-dependent social phenomena that have an evolutionary base and are subject to strategic behavior. Each of the chapters in this Handbook touches upon at least one of these facets. Second, in order to adequately capture this complexity, a multidisciplinary and eventually interdisciplinary approach is needed. Intradisciplinary progress is a precondition for high-quality multidisciplinary scholarship. Third, the frontier of much current research crystallizes around six substantive problem domains, capturing different levels of analysis and their interplay.

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Gossip as a Burdened Virtue

Abstract: Gossip is often serious business, not idle chitchat.

Cited by 19 publications

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Gossip and Hidden Transcript in The Online and Offline Interaction: The Case of Closed Group Communication

Gossip and Hidden Transcript in The Online and Offline Interaction: The Case of Closed Group Communication

Rethinking Resistance as an Act of Improvisation: Lessons from the 1914 Christmas Truce

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