How We Use Stories and Why That Matters

Name: How We Use Stories and Why That Matters
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By John Hartley

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Using compelling examples and analysis, How We Use Stories and Why That Mattersshows what the New York Shakespeare Riots tell us about class struggle, what Death Cab for Cutie tells us about media, what Kate Moss's wedding dress tells us about authorship, and how Westworld and Humans imagine very different futures for Artificial Intelligence: one based on slavery, the other on class. Together, these knowledge stories tell us about how intimate human communication is organised and used to stage organised conflict, to test the 'fighting fitness' of contending groups - provoking new stories, identities and classes along the way.
This bookguides the reader through the tangled undergrowth of communication and cultural expression towards a new understanding of the role of group-mediating stories at global and digital scale. It argues that media and networked systems perform and bind group identities, creating bordered fictions within which economic and political activities are made meaningful. Now that computational and global scale, big data, metadata and algorithms rule the roost even in culture, subjectivity and meaning, we need population-scale frameworks to understand individual, micro-scale sense-making practices. To achieve that, we need evolutionary and systems approaches to understand cultural performance and dynamics.
The opposing universes of fact (science, knowledge, education) and fiction (entertainment, story and imagination) - so long separated into the contrasting disciplines of natural sciences and the humanities - can now be understood as part of one turbulent sphere of knowledge-production and innovation.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

314

Release Date:

2020-01-23

Publication Date:

2020-01-23

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

150135163X

ISBN13:

9781501351631

Weight:

608 g

Height:

157 cm

Width:

235 cm

Thickness:

21 cm

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