The trend towards anti-capitalist dystopia in contemporary serials: Narrative analysis of the Korean tragedy Squid Game

Despite increasing access to high quality television (TV) series in the golden age of television, political scientists (and especially scholars of comparative politics) have not systematically considered the possibilities that television series might offer for instruction. This article aims to fill this gap by illustrating the opportunities for teaching political science using TV series and outlining ways of integrating television series into the classroom using selected clips, screening full episodes, or using an entire series as a text. We then illustrate these methods by discussing ways that television series might be used in a typical introductory course on European politics.

An empirical analysis of the Constitution of the United States of America with data generated through quantitative and mixed methods is dynamically explored through social networks visual software. The two methods for generation of data consist of: a) experimental quantitative methodology using Microsoft Words for Windows organizational chart functions and, b) mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology using narrative content analysis with Program for Computer Assisted Coding of Events (PC-ACE). The data generated explored through social network analysis using Pajek software.

Theoretical framework. The audiovisual sector has grown and evolved in recent years with the appearance of new products and companies that strive to achieve leadership in the sector, such as HBO or Netflix. Thus, the “Third Golden Age of Television” brings with it an increase in sexual, violent and stereotyped contents in television series. Objective. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of these three elements in the construction of the Brand Equity of a series, specifically in the case of Game of Thrones. Methodology. Through a questionnaire supplied to a sample of 240 subjects, analyzes are carried out by means of structural equations through LISREL, in order to determine the existence of relationships between attitude toward sex, violence and stereotypes and the formation of Brand Equity. Results. The results confirm the existence of a direct and positive relationship between attitudes towards violence, sex and stereotypes and the formation of Brand Equity. Conclusions. This research increases the literature related to Brand Equity, in a novel sector such as television series, confirming the importance of sex, violence and stereotypes when building Brand Equity. Implications: This study can serve as a tool for the producers of television series, in general, and of Game of Thrones, in particular, since they should balance the presence of these contents in their creations since they can affect the evaluation by the spectators, affecting their Brand Equity.

“Two Birds with One Stone”: Transmedia Serialisation in <em>Twin Peaks</em>

Integration of patient views in mental health service planning is in its infancy despite service provision being clearly dominated by narratives from professional consultations and medical records. We wished to clarify perceptions of uncertainty about mental health conditions from a range of provider and user perspectives (patients, carers, parents, mental health service providers) and understand the role of narratives in mental health research. (1) To explore the utility of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative content analysis in mental health research, and (2) identify aspects of uncertainty in mental health service users and providers. Four hundred and six free text responses were considered as one element of an existing questionnaire about uncertainties about mental health treatments, collected from mental healthcare users and providers through charities, the Mental Health Research Network in Wales, health professionals and websites. Free text responses were analysed using narrative content analysis, an elaborate and rigorous research technique that involves groups of analysts working independently and together over extended group sessions. Three main themes emerged across respondent groups: "medication and treatment options", "objectification and marginalisation of patient" and "integrity of service delivery". Within these, patients embraced the opportunity to write about their illness at length, whilst carers' and parents' main concerns were about how patients were dealing with their illnesses, the services they were getting and the side effects of treatments. Carers and patients' parents perceived themselves to be the 'go-between', carrying messages between patients and professionals, in order to enable services to function. Mental health service providers and professionals considered uncertainties surrounding medication and treatment from an 'evidence-base' perspective, concentrating on medication choices and the adoption of new approaches to care rather than patient need and expectation. Patients wanted to know what alternatives were available to the drug regimes they were on and felt their opinions were rarely listened to. As a consequence patients felt marginalised by the health systems there to support them and by society as a whole. Narrative content analysis can help distil large amounts of free text data and enable their successful interpretation. Listening to patients' voices should become an integral part of routine service evaluation and may help bring patient expectation more in line with service organisation and delivery towards an optimal delivery of care.

In this chapter we explain how we construct case studies, including analyses of narrative and content of the FDI. We take as point of departure the location of the case under study in the chart of openness to experience / mysticism . Then we proceed in direction of increasing depth of interpretation and compare the case under study with the respective focus group : First we present the results of central scales from our questionnaire, covering measures of personality , adult development and, of course, religiosity, second we turn to semantics and, in some case studies, inspect the individual semantic differentials with those of the respective focus group. Next, we present the “classic” FDI evaluation, ratings according to the Manual for faith development research along with exploratory evaluations of proxies for current concepts we consider to include. Then we turn to the FDI for a deeper analysis of content and narrative. Finally, we draw results from the different research methods together, thus achieving triangulation on the level of the single case. Now we first discuss the analysis of narrative and content and, in the second part of the chapter, we show how these are included in a case study .

Communal crisis dislocates sources of livelihood while the psychological consequences has been debilitating. Psychological distress experienced during communal conflict dislocates a persons’ integral psychological wellbeing leading to psychological trauma. This study is a narrative inquiry of the experiences of psychological trauma underwent by victims of Ezza/Ezillo communal crisis in Ebonyi State. The principal objective was to investigate if there are elements of psychological trauma in the experiences of the participants. The study adopted the qualitative narrative approach because narrative inquiries have the strength to expose silenced voices like those of war victims. The narrators comprised of 20 communal war victims who experienced the Ezza/Ezillo communal crisis who were sampled through purposive and convenience sampling technique. The study was anchored on John Bowlby’s and Mary Ainsworth attachment theory. Narrative content analysis was conducted and results revealed that participants made sense of their experience of the crisis using knowledge that resembled those of psychological trauma. Such experiences included but not limited to a loss of sense of self, nightmares and flashback memories, feeling of disconnection from the world, sleepless nights, feeling disoriented, disorganized and confused, having problem of concentration, feeling of helplessness and suppressed emotions. Narrative analysis in the study further revealed that the experiences affected their overall wellbeing and made them at some point to have suicide ideation. Conclusion was made that the communal war the participants experienced affected their overall psychological wellbeing such that they made sense of their experience of war with knowledge that coincided with those of psychological trauma. Recommendations were made some of which included that the victims of the Ezza/Ezillo communal war required both psychological and financial intervention to help ameliorate their sufferings. Such intervention was expected from Federal government, State government, Non-governmental organizations and other Agencies.

iScale will typically result in a wealth of experience narratives relating to different stages of products’ adoption. The qualitative analysis of these narrative is a labor intensive, and prone to researcher bias activity. This chapter proposes a semi-automated technique that aims at supporting the researcher in the content analysis of experience narratives. The technique combines traditional qualitative coding procedures (Strauss and Corbin, 1998) with computational approaches for assessing the semantic similarity between documents (Salton et al., 1975). This results in an iterative process of qualitative coding and visualization of insights which enables to move quickly between high-level generalized knowledge and concrete and idiosyncratic insights. The proposed approach was compared against a traditional vector-space approach for assessing the semantic similarity between documents, the Latent-Semantic Analysis (LSA), using a dataset of a study in chapter 4. Overall, the proposed approach was shown to perform substantially better than traditional LSA. However, interestingly enough, this was mainly rooted in the explicit modeling of relations between concepts and individual terms, and not in the restriction of the list of terms to the ones that concern particular phenomena of interest.KeywordsContent AnalysisSemantic SimilarityLatent Semantic AnalysisLatent ConceptAutomate ApproachThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Whether it is called the Golden Age of Television, a Second (or Third) Golden Age of Television, or the New, New Golden Age of Television, contemporary TV series (ca. 2000 to present) have garnered both critical acclaim and academic attention. This chapter provides a survey of the discursive impasses that have arisen in addressing and categorizing this mode of production, with particular attention to points of contention between film scholarship and Television Studies. It argues that recent efforts to reformulate the categories of “the cinematic” and “the televisual” and revisit the notion of medium specificity can serve to situate these highly acclaimed series within a shared intermedial legacy with cinema based on their unique preoccupation with aestheticized time.

BackgroundThe incidence of concussions within football and rugby remains concerning, and despite the development of numerous concussion education programs, the injury is often misunderstood. The limited success of more traditional...

This study aims to explore the concept of Guidance and Counseling (GC) prophetic in School. The focus of the study on the professionalism of counselors in services in schools as a solutive step towards the ethics, life-style, and the tendency of non-spiritual secularity that impact on various psychological disorders. Research is done collaboratively between literature and empirical research). Empirical data was collected by interviewing fiveteen GC teachers at school with Islamic Guidance and Counseling as a holistic work discipline with narrative content analysis. The results showed that first , reviewing the Prophetic dimension as a concept derived from the awareness of the prophet's exemplary application urgency. Second , the application of Prophetic Guidance and Counseling in school as an effort of theoretical implementation as well as a contribution in responding problems of learners. Third , considering the importance of the prophetic dimension for Muslim counselors, it is necessary to internalize the prophetic values by the counselors. This can be pursued in addition to the application of the theoretical dimensions of prophetic guidance and counseling concept, or in another way by strengthening the personality aspects of religious maturity that puts the balance of habluminallah and habluminannaas.

Las teen series son un producto mediático en torno a la cultura juvenil, al mismo tiempo que representan el prototipo de ficción seriada preferido por la audiencia adolescente. Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre 50 teen series contemporáneas, producidas en Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y España. A través de una aproximación cualitativa y una metodología mixta, el estudio dibuja las características fundamentales del formato de la segunda generación de teen series. Como las producciones de la primera generación de los años noventa, las teen series actuales siguen siendo programas estrella del prime-time y se siguen centrando en personajes y temáticas adolescentes. Pero, a diferencia de las de la primera generación, las teen series de la segunda generación suelen ofrecer representaciones juveniles más diversas y variadas, proporcionando modelos identitarios basados en la aceptación de uno mismo, se abren a un público joven y joven-adulto, y recurren a estrategias narrativas y estéticas propias de la actual etapa meta-televisiva y de la llamada tercera edad de oro de la televisión, configurándose como producciones populares de calidad.

Narrative psychological content analysis as a tool for psychological status monitoring of crews in isolated, confined and extreme settings

The general argument made by Southern historian, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in 1918, is that the plantation functioned as a type of school for the slave. Similarly, in 1976, Anthony Gerald Albanese examined the plantation system as an institution that conditioned the behaviors of both slaves and slave owners. I maintain that the plantation system was not only an educative agency that conditioned behaviors, but also a conduit for the creolization process. The focus of this study is creolization in the education of African American slaves in the nineteenth century. This is a mixed methods content analysis of African American slave narratives. I use Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s plantation context heuristic to help conceptualize the creolization process that I believe is present within the text. Within the qualitative strand of the sequential mixed method design, I identify thematic codes that signify pedagogy and creolization theory. I classify these codes into three families: slave-making strategies (SMS) codes, creolization theory (CT) codes, and education and literacy (EL) codes. The coding units I collect during the qualitative phase of this study will make up the dataset for the quantitative phase of research in which I explore the relationships among coding families.

ABSTRACTAt an embodied and personal level this paper plays with what Evans, J., & Davies, B. (2011. New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment. Sport, Education & Society, 16(3), 263–278) suggests are ‘the complexity and nuances of biology in culture and the influence of body pedagogies in the production of social inequalities and hierarchies.’ (p. 263). Despite extensive attention to gender order, sexualization, sexual subjectification, sexual and gender representation in physical culture (sport, active lifestyles and health and physical education), research/scholarship has paid little attention to the positioning of and constitution of practices by body parts, such as breasts specifically. Given that gendered cultural pedagogies teach humans how to understand their selves, physical culture has potentially extensive affordances for learning the self. Drawing on narrative inquiry and content analysis, six diverse participants’ breastories are examined for breast pedagogies and how the materiality of breasts constructs and position humans and their gendered representations in physical culture. This paper suggests the recognition of breastism and employment of breastwork to work towards gender justice and dismantling some of the oppressions of gender. While others argue that productions of the gendered body lead to discipline and control of body parts, actions, and gender presentation, I consider instead the material and symbolic role of body parts, their actions and the gendered construction of those parts and how these gendered constructions act to discipline and control body pedagogies and engagement for more equitable futures in physical cultures.