Hypernarrativity, Storytelling, and the Relativity of Truth: Digital Semiotics of Communication and Interaction

Wagener, Albin

doi:10.1007/s42438-019-00066-7

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“…Two years of the pandemic have accelerated long-term trends such as fragmentation of the media [ 41 , 42 ], social networks [ 43 ], society [ 44 ], and hypernarrativity [ 45 ]. Similarly, the influence of emotions on public discourse has substantially increased [ 46 ], and this development coincides with the massive spread of misinformation.…”

Section: Changing Conditions Of Chemistry Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemophobia and passion: why chemists should desire Marcel Proust

Chalupa

Nesměrák

2022

Monatsh Chem

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In this article, we introduce a new communication strategy called the “communication success dimension” for the suppression and eradication of chemophobia. We explain, using recent examples, that chemophobia presents a danger not only to the science of chemistry but also to humankind. Based on the latest insights from communication research, we emphasize the need to bring more passion, dedication, and human factors into the communication of chemistry. We demonstrate the application of this new strategy by employing Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to combat chemophobia. Graphical abstract

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Section: Changing Conditions Of Chemistry Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemophobia and passion: why chemists should desire Marcel Proust

Chalupa

Nesměrák

2022

Monatsh Chem

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“…These discursive representations are merely powerful (Ng and Bradac 1993), socially constructed (Van Leeuwen 2009), and mediated social rapports (Kopytowska 2015). Neoliberal democracies now engage in language games (Wagener 2020) which allow them follow the same doxa (Sarfati 2011) while wearing seemingly different masks (Wagener 2018(Wagener , 2019. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the rhetoric of war and heroes allows the system (Meunier 2003) to remain unchanged.…”

Section: Crushed By the Wheels Of Industrymentioning

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Crushed by the Wheels of Industry: War, Heroes, and Domestic Recolonization in the Time of Covid-19

Wagener

2020

Postdigit Sci Educ

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USA to China, the political answer to the Covid-19 crisis has been to temporary restrict some human rights. Political actors across the globe, such as the OECD (Gurría 2020), the French Republic (Macron 2020), and the United Nations (Guterres 2020), have compared the pandemic to war, using this well-known rhetoric to justify their economic and political actions. The pandemic requires a coordinated and measured response, yet do we really need to add the metaphor of war to the ambient stress? Flusberg et al. (2018: 9) explain that war metaphors are used to 'capture people's attention, trigger emotional responses, tap into a rich source of schematic knowledge, and lead people to take a stand and form particular opinions on a wide range of issues.' In a cognitive and semantic perspective (Wagener 2019), war is an easy conveyor of meaning: unfortunately, every citizen knows what war is or has an idea of what war could be. War is always against someone or something; it draws a line between the good (us) and the bad (them). This dichotomy leaves no room for ethical complexity. Every political action is aimed at winning. Any criticism becomes inaudible or suspicious: if you are not with us, you are against us. Using the war metaphor makes it easier to understand the Covid-19 pandemic, yet it also reduces our potential political choices for action. On the opposite side, there is always an enemy. Enemy images, and enemies, are made by accusations, condemnations, and denunciations. This war propaganda, or war talk, is psychological preparation

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“…Similarly, boogaloo memes attitudinize Trump's tweets as well as the conforming ideas and views consonant with boogaloo and serve to co-create a shared identity. In an analysis of the discursive situation of the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests in France, Wagener (2019) argues that evidence-based debate is sidestepped in favor of media-stimulated narrative storytelling for the goal of dynamic interaction in the protests both online and off. Taken together, these perspectives suggest that while behavior among activists and protestors becomes performative (such as the wearing of American Revolutionary War-era garb), online discursive practice necessitates a hypernarrative storytelling approach due to the need for group cohesion and continued identity negotiation.…”

Section: Technological Affordances Of Social Media Used In Activismmentioning

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Boogaloo and Civil War 2: Memetic antagonism in expressions of covert activism

Wiggins

2020

New Media & Society

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Internet memes are remixed images, videos, GIFs, hashtags, and similar content that usually incorporates humor but also some form of political or cultural critique. Several studies have previously examined the ways in which minority groups curate Internet memes for the purpose of protest or other forms of activism. This article examines user-generated tweets including any of the following hashtags: boogaloo, boogaloo2020, and/or civilwar2. The time period of interest on Twitter concerns any and all images posted between 15 and 25 January 2020, exactly 5 days before and after a controversial gun rally held in Richmond, Virginia. Drawing on Eco’s theory of semiotics, the results from a critical discourse analysis reveal a tendency toward a preference for antagonism as a means to consolidate identity for individuals engaged in online discursive practice within hybrid structures. Findings include the presence of deeply contextualized and situated logics within an emergent boogaloo discourse. In addition, the study found that hypernarrative storytelling serves the movement in terms of identity negotiation and consolidation.

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Hypernarrativity, Storytelling, and the Relativity of Truth: Digital Semiotics of Communication and Interaction

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Chemophobia and passion: why chemists should desire Marcel Proust

Chemophobia and passion: why chemists should desire Marcel Proust

Crushed by the Wheels of Industry: War, Heroes, and Domestic Recolonization in the Time of Covid-19

Boogaloo and Civil War 2: Memetic antagonism in expressions of covert activism

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