Story Construction Research Articles

Shared storytelling with a virtual learning companion: prospects in child-AI collaboration

Advances in natural language processing techniques enhance the capabilities of conversational agents to process input text and generate fluent responses in various genre. In the educational setting, these conversational agents can function as learning companions to promote peer learning, enhance social interaction, and motivate collaborative behavior. In this paper, we investigate how children collaborate with conversational agents in the context of story construction. We conducted user studies and administered survey forms to collect children’s evaluation of their experience, captured the child-agent conversation logs, and used an observation checklist to monitor the interaction. We analyzed the logs to determine how children respond to varying roles portrayed by the agent and the dialogue moves that motivate collaborative behavior during storytelling. We correlated these with the children’s reported perception and our own observation of the interaction based on performance, collaboration and humanity attributes. Drawing on these results, we identified the roles of conversational agents that align with children’s traits and abilities as storytellers and propose dialogue strategies to facilitate collaborative storytelling. Findings from our study can inform future educational technology designers on the roles of conversational agents as collaborative learning companions who can adapt to the individual needs and preferences of the children.

De Cervantes a Santander: La vía del desarrollo urbano en Manizales

This article seeks to contribute to the construction of urban stories from the introduction of infrastructures and equipment that represented the ideal of progress and modernization during the twentieth century. The case of the city of Manizales is representative, as it presents a model of growth along a structuring road axis, conditioned not only by the geography of the mountain, but by the inclusion of technical advances that favoured economic and social development. The urban expansion aimed at establishing habits related to hygiene, civism and comfort, led to an accelerated urbanization in the east of the city characterized by its high landscape qualities; an architecture framed in typologies of modernization; and the social expectation of achieving a new lifestyle. The socio-economic conditions linked to the passage of the avenue, have kept it as the main artery of the city from its appearance to the present day.

A Study on the Construction of Brand Storytelling and the Emotional Connection of Generation Z

This study explores the characteristics and effects of Chow Tai Fook’s (CTF) brand storytelling, as well as the current situation and trend of Generation Z’s (Gen Z) emotional connection to the brand. The results show that CTF’s brand storytelling is unique and able to attract the attention of Gen Z. Gen Z has high awareness and emotional connection to CTF, and most of them highly recognize the importance of the background of the brand story. In terms of willingness to buy, a significant proportion of respondents believe that brand storytelling is one of the reasons why they buy jewelry and precious metal products, and that brand storytelling and creation are more appealing to consumers than simple sales pitches. Emotional resonance, uniqueness, quality assurance and social responsibility, and lifestyle leadership were all seen as important factors in terms of brand cultural characteristics. As for story construction, compelling plot construction and authentic and believable content presentation are the most significant attractions for Gen Z consumers, while all other aspects have significant impacts as well.

Exploring Audience Trust in Journalism: A Comprehensive Survey Study

This comprehensive study explores the variables that affect media credibility and perceptions while examining the present levels of audience trust in journalism. It has never been more important to understand trust dynamics in light of growing concerns about partisanship, skewed reporting, and misinformation. We employ a mixed-methods approach in our research, mixing qualitative interviews with quantitative surveys to collect data from a wide range of participant demographics. Our objective is to determine the fundamental factors that promote trust, including accuracy, objectivity, credibility, and influence. The study also looks at the perceptions of news sources among various age groups and sociopolitical backgrounds. For this matter, 200 participants were selected on a non-random basis based in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Social Responsibility Theory was utilized to see the research study. The study explored that the usage of social media is much more than traditional media, it has also been noted that people find the news on the internet more credible. Many of the respondents feel that the influence of political interest does go into the construction of news stories, we applied chi-square to check and it has shown that the majority of them feel tremendously high. Overall, the results show that people have less trust in Pakistani media.

О джатаках с героем-отшельником (на материале рассказов из сборника «Гирлянда джатак»)

Introduction. The tradition of hermitage dates back to the shramanas — wandering monks of Ancient India. The main example of a hermit who left worldly life in the palace and became a wandering ascetic in Buddhism is the image of Buddha Shakyamuni. The article examines eight examples of jātakas from the collection “Jātakamālā” (Tib. skyes pa’i rabs kyi rgyud ‘Garland of Jatakas’) by Arya Sura (IV century), associated with the image of a hermit. In these stories, hermitage is associated with asceticism, virtue, and active spiritual practice. A number of Jātakas from the Pali corpus are devoted to the description of the virtue of the Sramanas and ascetics; references to the hermit are found in stories from the Panchatantra collection and in other collections. The goals of the study is a textual and literary analysis of the image of the hermit presented in eight stories from the Jātakamālā; consideration of the presented types of solitude, its meaning and significance in the construction of stories. Results. In the considered Jātakas there was a description of physical, status, psychological, Mahayana types of solitude. An analysis of the image of a hermit from eight stories showed that the desire for physical solitude is part of spiritual practice and corresponds to the image of a bodhisattva in the Mahayana tradition. The author reduces the actions of the hermit hero to following the basic instructions presented in the opening and closing phrases of each Jātaka. Keywords: tibetology, source studies, stories about previous lives of Buddha, Jātakamālā, Ārya Śūra, image of ascetic

Extending the ethnographic toolbox: photovoice and everyday experiences of marginalised groups

This paper explores how photovoice can be used to understand the everyday life experiences of marginalised groups. We ask what kind of knowledge photovoice elicits and how this contributes to other ethnographic methods to enhance our understanding of subjective experiences. Based on two photovoice projects in Ghana/Burkina Faso and Thailand we show that participants generate aesthetic accounts of their everyday life that are both poetic and emotional. Drawing on feminist approaches to agency, we argue that the aesthetic construction of photos and stories permits us a different insight into how participants reflect on their conditions, perceive power dynamics within social structures and, in doing so construct (political) messages. Without overlooking the oppressive structures that they navigate, their accounts highlight their constrained agency and contrast victimising accounts. As such, we extend the use of photovoice beyond a tool for empowerment to reflect on its contributions as a visual method to methodological and theoretical debates around everyday, emotional experiences and how these, as argued within feminist geography, are constituted on different scales.

Features of the Organization of a Multi-perspective Narrative of Levon Khechoyan’s Historical Novel “King Arshak, Eunuch Drastamat

Key words: polyphony, narrator, narrative methods, structure, the death of the author, intertextuality The organization of the narrative, using folklore genres and narrative techniques with the combination of new techniques, makes it possible to convey life experience and artistic ideas from generation to generation, ensuring the continuity and actuality of literature. The epic narrative of Levon Khechoyan “King Arshak, Eunuch Drastamat” is created according to this principle. The historical novel, generally, reflects those features of narrative organization (changes in the point of view, intertextual connections), that are observed in the literature of the 20th century. The innovative nature of the historical novel and the most important characteristics of story construction have not been unnoticed, just on the contrary: they have always been highlighted by researchers. Literary scholars, who have studied the historical novel, have noted several unique features of the structure of the narrative, hovewer, with all the depth of the analytical research and notes made, the regularities of the narrative organization have not been studied specifically. Therefore, it is relevant to study the historical novel from this point of view. The aim of this article is to examine the features of the narrative structure found in L. Khechoyan's historical novel "King Arshak, Eunuch Drastamat." To this end, we have assigned ourselves the task of examining the primary structure of the narrative, the viewpoint, and the various ways in which it is expressed in the aforementioned novel.

Structure and functions of the fabulous media narrative of the Instagram social network (using motivating content as an example)

The research task set by the authors is based on an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of the media narrative in a structural and functional aspect. The selected material includes publications of a social network banned in the Russian Federation for promoting Instagram photos. For the study, the authors selected three thematically representative accounts (the total number of subscribers is 600 thousand) and five materials containing information about the success stories of various celebrities. The subject side of the analysis includes narrative functions (motives) that can be found in these publications. The relevance of this work lies in the manipulative power of the above-mentioned materials and their ability to bring a person into an active motivated state. It is noted that such materials can carry a psychological and terrapeutic function for the viewer. The methodological basis is the narrative theory of V.Y. Propp, which assumes the decomposition of the material into invariant composite blocks necessary for the construction of a media story. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the need for the presence of such content in the media space. Since the authors of the study provide a universal set of mandatory narrative matrices, bloggers, firstly, get the opportunity to save time when creating publications, and secondly, they get the opportunity to bring the audience into an active motivated state through the success story of a famous personality. Among the most important conclusions, the authors note the exceptional popularity of the narrative motives of departure, struggle, transfiguration, victory and accession (wedding). They contain the main elements of the narrative. Similarly, the authors note that differences in the creation of materials (videos, texts, illustrative material) do not affect the interest of viewers and do not exclude the above-mentioned fairy-tale motives. Consequently, due to the fact that such materials are highly popular, the authors claim that they have an important social function.

Light Weight Laterite Bricks Stabilised With Cement And Sawdust For Multi-Storey Construction

Stabilised brick has been identified for use in various areas of building construction as an environmentally sustainable, friendly and durable building material with excellent thermal properties that makes it suitable for construction in most regions with extreme climatic conditions. However, the use of stabilised bricks has not been fully incorporated into high rise building construction due to its overall weight which is one of the major considerations for multi-story buildings. This research on light weight bricks was carried out to ascertain its suitability for various applications in high rise building and engineering constructions. The production was done using different percentages of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and Saw Dust (SD) to establish the percentage required for light weight construction while maintaining the optimum compressive strength required for performance in building construction comparable with that of a sandcrete block to confirm its suitability for use in multi- story construction projects. The experimental procedures used involved the use of Saw Dust obtained from the sawing process of wood at a saw mill, lateritic soil was collected from a borrow pit and ordinary Portland cement was obtained from an open market for producing the bricks. Various chemical and physical analyses were carried out on four samples of laterite soils and sawdust respectively. Liquid limits, plastic limits and water absorption of the soil samples were measured. The soils were then stabilized with cement and sawdust at 5, 10 and 15 % replacements. Bricks with size (300 x 150 x 150mm) were produced from the various mixes. After curing for 28 days, the brick samples were weighed to observe the varying degree of weight reduction with respect to the quantity of saw dust replacement. Compressive strength of the bricks was also examined to ensure that the strength of the bricks is within allowable limits for construction purposes. The reduction in weight and the corresponding compressive strength of the bricks were measured for conformity with ASTMS building codes and standards and were compared with that of a sandcrete block to establish its suitability for use in multi-story construction projects.] Keywords: Stabilization, Lightweight, Multi-storey construction, Bricks.

Behavior Facing Hoaxes among Housewives

Hoaxes are an integral part of free communication today, especially in every field. Hoaxes have an impact on society and harm society, therefore they contain legal consequences. Housewives are objects that have a major impact on hoax information. So this study aims to see how the behavior of dealing with hoaxes experienced by housewives can be prevented by them. The research method is carried out with qualitative techniques by building a verstehen conception that occurs in every moment that learning can take. The analysis is done by building a story construction and drawing in a generalization of the discussion. The results of this study show that housewives have strong resistance to the support of institutions that protect the construction opinion information generated. This is supported by the support of the recitation community, community leaders, religion, and customs as well as household leaders.

The three faces of irony in the myth of the “end” of a myth. Hans Blumenberg as a reader of Kafka’s Prometheus

The purpose of the paper is to show how the reading of Kafka’s Prometheus offered by Hans Blumenberg in Arbeit am Mythos authorizes a re-understanding of this short story as a device within which the meta-representative moment and the questioning moment are configured as two indissolubly linked aspects. In this perspective, starting from the recognition of the key role played by the mechanism of irony in the construction of the Kafkaesque short story, the article aims to highlight the three different levels of articulation of such a mechanism, with particular reference to its ability to exhibit – at the same time – the transcendibility of the datum and the need to think the sense as «infinite deferral».

Using the listening guide method for short story construction: Redefining researcher and participant through immanence

Narrative inquiry in applied linguistics is rich with different foci, scholarly lineage, and practices (Barkhuizen, 2020). However, a consequence of this variety concerns the analytical rigor and ethical trustworthiness due to a lack of method standardization (Barkhuizen & Consoli, 2021). This article addresses this concern through the onto-epistemological construct of the plane of immanence (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; St. Pierre, 2019) by expanding the analytical process of short story narrative inquiry (Barkhuizen, 2016, 2017) using the listening guide (Brown & Gilligan, 1992; Woodcock, 2016). Throughout this article, you will see how this ontological, methodological, and method combination recognizes the researcher/participant dynamic in a manner that is more conducive to the reality of narrative inquiry scholarship. Additionally, this article hopes to serve as a methodological guide making short story narrative inquiry more approachable to unfamiliar scholars.

Mengungkap Pengalaman Pribadi melalui Metode Narasi Oral pada Penelitian Bidang Pendidikan

The use of the oral narrative method in research is not something new. This method has been used for quite a long time, especially in the fields of psychology, sociology and education research. In the field of education, oral narrative methods are used to express educational experiences through telling stories about an individual or a group of people so as to make the stories depicted come true. The general concept underlying this method is that education and educational research are the construction and reconstruction of personal and social stories, where learners, teachers, and researchers are people who are able to tell stories and characters from their own stories. This study discusses the methods and ways of applying oral narratives in the field of education.

Analisis Pengalaman Pengguna Game Visual Novel Asal Usul Kota Surabaya Menggunakan Metode Usability Testing

A visual novel game is a visual communication design product that integrates graphic design through visual styles, visual character designs, and narrative designs accompanied by interactive communicative story construction. Games with the best storytelling and the ability to communicate historical chronology and cultural facts are synonymous with visual novel games. In the previous study, the Visual Novel Folklore Game of the Origins of the City of Surabaya featured puzzle and dialogue mechanics to build a more interactive narrative with the user. In addition, there is a branching narrative where users can make decisions by choosing which point of view the user wants to play. Several stages in this study include data collection, usability testing, data analysis, and conclusion. The results of this user experience analysis research overview several usability aspects that should be concerned in the subsequent game development. The usability aspects tested are Learnability, Memorability, Efficiency, Error, and Satisfaction. Of the 114 respondents involved in this study, the highest average score was obtained for the satisfaction aspect, which was 4.17, while the lowest average score was for the error aspect, which was 3.83, the games is easy to play and get satisfying results in every aspect of usability, the games is easy to play and achieves satisfactory results in each usability parameter.

It’s Not an Abortion: Examining How Individuals Who End a Wanted Pregnancy Discuss their Experiences

Various scholars have concluded that narratives of individuals who have ended wanted pregnancies restrict abortion to only acceptable cases. Through the analysis of 33 personal narratives posted on the website “Ending a Wanted Pregnancy,” this article argues that these stories are polysemous, exhibiting hermeneutic depth. Women telling these stories construct reproductive justice and anti-abortion meanings simultaneously, which creates a new meaning in which their terminations are not abortions and removes them from the abortion dichotomy. These narratives achieve this distinction through the construction of a termination narrative and by distinguishing themselves from women who (do not) have abortions.

Structural design and analysis of G+5 framed structure using ETABS

This paper is an overview of the work done for the design and analysis of the multi-storey building (G+5) under the effect of various forces acting on the building such as dead load, imposed load, wind load, and seismic load. The work was done for the purpose of designing and analyzing the building to withstand the effects of these various forces. The fact that these pressures are working on the building demonstrates that if the buildings are not carefully planned and built with enough strength, then this may lead to the partial or entire collapse of the multi-storey structures. It is necessary to do an analysis and design the structures of multi-story buildings in such a way that they are able to resist the numerous pressures that operate on these buildings in order to guarantee the inhabitants' safety. The primary purpose of this endeavor is to investigate and analyze the effects of wind and seismic activity on the structures. The residential building is a G+5 storey construction, and it is situated in Raipur city, which is the capital of Chhattisgarh state. According to the criteria for the study of seismic load, zone II applies to the location of the building. Throughout the course of its lifetime, every structure will be susceptible to the impacts of a variety of forces, including those caused by dead load, live load, wind forces, and seismic forces. Both wind load and earthquake load contribute to the dynamic load, whereas dead load and imposed load only contribute to the static load. The whole of the structure was analyzed with the assistance of the STAAD PRO programme.

Achieving motherhood: a qualitative analysis of MLM success stories online

ABSTRACT Multilevel marketing companies (MLMs) traditionally recruited participants using stereotypical gender roles. Today, MLMs use websites and social media to recruit women by offering opportunities for them to become “boss babes” and “momtrepreneurs.” They capitalize on family responsibilities and some women’s desires to be a mother. Moreover, race, ethnicity, and class are essential to women’s MLM participation and require consideration. The author conducted a qualitative case study to examine this topic, analyzing 34 online success stories or personal testimonies of one cosmetic and skincare MLM. Using the interactionist perspective, the author argues that the featured stories construct images of ideal women who love and care for their children, reinforcing their identities as mothers. Textually constructed for recruitment, these online success narratives link women’s ability to mother to this MLM. Unlike previous studies, stories include infertility and adoption and the relevance of race and class in the recruiting process. Finally, the author contends that this MLM leverages postfeminist and white hegemonic ideologies, displaying the deceiving experiences of women and mothers for profit.

Narrative research on the stories about mystery and the spiritual beings of medicinal herbs in ancient China

Abstract Objectives This paper takes the folk stories of ancient Chinese medicinal herbs as the research object, aiming at depicting the understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual beings and immortals in the conceptual world of Chinese people. Methods Morphological research method is adopted to focus on the text of folk stories and relevant cultural significance. Results Since the Tang Dynasty, the records about medicinal herbs becoming spiritual beings and people becoming immortals after consuming them have been widely spread. Among them, three types of stories are the most representative: one is ginseng transforming into an old man or a boy, the other one is tuckahoe transforming into a child, and the last one is the Chinese wolfberry transforming into a dog. Conclusions The story of “consuming spiritual beings and becoming immortals” not only reveals the narrative rules of the orderly upgrading from low to high among plants, spiritual beings, human beings, and immortals but also reflects our ancestors' ultimate pursuit of longevity and becoming immortals. Relevant research on this topic could be beneficial to the presentation of the knowledge-generating process of the Chinese ancient folk culture and promote the theoretical construction of Chinese stories.

Expanding Narrative Medicine through the Collaborative Construction and Compelling Performance of Stories.

This essay proposes an expansion of the concept of narrative competence, beyond close reading, to include two more skills: the collaborative construction and compelling performance of stories. To show how this enhanced form of narrative competence can be attained, the essay describes Off Script, a cocurricular medical storytelling program with three phases: 1) creative writing workshop, 2) dress rehearsal, and 3) public performance of stories. In these phases, Off Script combines literary studies, creative writing, reflective practice, collegial feedback, and drama. With increased narrative competence, Off Script participants are likely better equipped to engage in more impactful health advocacy and partner with patients more effectively.

Bearing capacity mapping of Morang district for shallow foundation

Foundation is the part of all structure, which helps transmit the all the loads from above structure to the ground. The bearing capacity value mainly affected by two major factors, they are type of soil and also the location where the stratum. Due to various reasons such as; Economy, miser, unconsciousness etc, people don’t conduct soil test in many cases and starts to build high rise buildings in different locations. From the prevention of collapse and settlement of building bearing capacity of soil should be checked. Zonation mapping of bearing capacity is inevitable in many cases of newer and expansion storey construction. In many countries, zoning mapping of bearing capacity has been available for crowd or urbanized cities. In case of Nepal, there are absences of such zoning maps. The thesis report tries to fill such gap present in Nepal. Different bearing capacity has been found using different tests; SPT Value, Terzaghi, and among them least of the resulted value of bearing capacity is used for Zonation mapping of Morang district of Nepal. These targets are achieved by various data and tests conducted in the soil investigation with boring logs and SPT N value from 239 different locations and terrain around Morang District of Nepal. The methods initially adopted are collecting, selecting, grouping and plotting the data Location in Morang District map using GIS. Various analytical, experimental and theoretical approaches also used for the estimating and analyzing bearing capacity of soil. The research shows that the bearing capacity of soil of Morang ranges from 50kPa to 628kPa.