The Simulated Self – Fiction Reading and Narrative Identity

Mathies, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s11406-019-00079-3

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“…Fiction, the medium of our animated series, itself can have powerful effects on young audiences. Creating an immersive "melding of attention, imagery and feelings" (Davies et al, 2019, p. 8), narrative and visual fiction in general, and our study examples in particular, can influence audiences' perceptions of their own worlds (Stroud, 2008;Mathies, 2020).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Challenging the stereotype through humor? Comic female scientists in animated TV series for young audiences

Soucy-Humphreys

Judd²,

Jürgens³

2023

Front. Commun.

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Stereotypical representations about what scientists do, look like, and how they behave are cognized in early childhood and refined throughout life, through direct or indirect contact with the STEM communication climate, whether it be direct interactions with scientists, science education, communique, or entertainment. Popular media (TV) plays an important role in influencing our ideas of science by constructing images of social science reality. What has rarely been discussed in these contexts is what kind of scientific stereotypes are reinforced or challenged in popular TV shows for young audiences, particularly regarding female scientists. Using qualitative textual analysis, this paper examines how female scientists are portrayed through humor (and what kind of humor) in two popular animated entertainment series for children—Spongebob Squarepants and Adventure Time—and how their portrayal reinforces or challenges gender stereotypes in cultural representations of science. The analysis revealed that science was portrayed as humorously framed non-science, often represented by exaggerated ever-computing datasets on larger-than-life computer screens that would rival NASA. However, the representation of the female scientists in these animated TV comedies was steeped in archaic stereotypes that, surprisingly, were barely associated with humor: it was the science, not the female scientist per se, that was comic. Interpreting these findings in light of science communication research, gender studies, popular entertainment studies and humor studies, this article adds new perspectives to our understanding of humor in science narratives and the public imagination, and provides new insights for the study of the intangible aspects of science in culture.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Challenging the stereotype through humor? Comic female scientists in animated TV series for young audiences

Soucy-Humphreys

Judd²,

Jürgens³

2023

Front. Commun.

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“…Creating an immersive "melding of attention, imagery and feelings" [Davies et al, 2019, p. 8], narratives can influence audiences' perceptions of their own worlds [Mathies, 2020;Stroud, 2008] -and provide enjoyment (see BOHIE's comments on the reception of her artworks, above). Enjoyment of science-related content does not require the audiences to fully engage with the science: "enjoyment may be described as a pleasurable experience with science as a form of entertainment or art" [Burns et al, 2003, p. 197].…”

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confidence: 99%

Street art as a vehicle for environmental science communication

Thompson,

Jürgens,

None

et al. 2023

Journal of Science Communication

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Street art is visual art in public spaces — public art — created for public visibility. Street art addresses a massive and extremely diverse audience: everyone in a city. Using a case study approach, this article explores: 1) the extent to which science-inspired environmental street art can be considered a vehicle for science communication in less tangible science contexts and institutional settings — on the street — and 2) the strategies that street artists deploy to communicate their environmental messages through large-scale painted murals. This article clarifies how street art can be understood as a means of creative grassroots environmental communication. It shows that, and how, street art can encourage agency in pro-environmentalism and help to develop our relationship with sustainability.

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“…They offer an escape from a harsher reality, and at times also a way to cope with traumatic experience. They allow us to temporarily leave one reality for another, and in so doing we gain distance from the trauma and often find ourselves in a better position to be able to come to terms with, and process, what happened to us (Arthur 2007;Bunt, 1994;Mathies, 2020;Tan, 2008;Unkefer, 1990). Music, in particular, has a very long genetically inherited tradition in human history to mediate everyday life functionally with alternative realities for a variety of purposes (Gabrielsson, 2011;Merriam, 1964;Peretz & Zatorre, 2009;Rouget, 1985).…”

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On Psychoses, Conspiracies, Creative Flow and the Absent-Mindedness of Genius: An Evolutionary Function-Dysfunction Taxonomy of the Multiple Subjective Realities of the Human Mind

Persson

2022

International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity

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The significance of illusion as a positive force in everyday life has been underestimated in both societal discourse and in empirical science. The objective of this study is to provide a synthesis of many academic disciplines’ understanding of illusion and reality by proposing a taxonomy of functional and dysfunctional subjective realities as based on the assumption that the human mind is adaptive in an evolutionary sense and likely to be a quantum entanglement system. Assumptions and discussions needed to construct the taxonomy are generally based on empirical research drawing from evolutionary theory, neurology, biology, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, physics and other disciplines. The purpose of the proposed taxonomy is heuristic, serving as a base for further studies drawing particular attention to the fact that, by evolutionary processes, Homo sapiens have been made dependent on multiple subjective realities where illusion and reality are not necessarily opposites. The article is concluded by discussing possible reasons for why illusions as a positive force in human behaviour has been neglected in comparison to the dysfunctions of the human mind of which research abound.

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The Simulated Self – Fiction Reading and Narrative Identity

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Challenging the stereotype through humor? Comic female scientists in animated TV series for young audiences

Challenging the stereotype through humor? Comic female scientists in animated TV series for young audiences

Street art as a vehicle for environmental science communication

On Psychoses, Conspiracies, Creative Flow and the Absent-Mindedness of Genius: An Evolutionary Function-Dysfunction Taxonomy of the Multiple Subjective Realities of the Human Mind

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