Narrative Scripts Research Articles

Famine and ‘hongersnood’ as transnational memory: Literary legacies of the 1840s food crises in Ireland and the Netherlands

The potato blight in Ireland (1845–1849) and the dire effects of the Phytophthora infestans in the Netherlands (1845–1847) have been investigated primarily through a socioeconomical lens. The cultural practices that have shaped and transmitted the memories of these famine pasts, however, require further examination, especially in connection to the Dutch potato hunger. This article investigates the cultural legacies of these two concurrent famines as both transgenerational and transnational forms of famine memory. Focusing on literary texts, and in particular children’s and young adult novels, as carriers of famine recollections, this study demonstrates recurrent narrative scripts which go back to earliest cultural representations of these hunger crises. While tropes, plotlines and characterisations are thus a form of transgenerational prosthetic memory, the cultural repertoires used to convey famine memory also appear to be transnational, in that Dutch and Irish famine literatures are structured around similar narrative templates.

Analyzing factors influencing student engagement in an educative social media platform

ABSTRACT In the context of Social Media literacy, the success of educational interventions relies on designing motivational learning environments that seek students’ engagement. Despite existing achievements in social media education to include more appealing resources (e.g. gamification, authentic learning, interactive simulations), limited research has explored the factors that influence students’ engagement. This study aims to investigate the factors that influence engagement in an educational social media platform. Specifically, the factors that shape interest and enjoyment in Instareal, an educational tool that combines narrative scripts and collaborative learning flow patterns to educate teenagers about social media risks and challenges. To answer our research questions, we analyze the log data generated by high school students (N = 100) who tested a Social Media Literacy training with the support of Instareal. A factor analysis and a backward stepwise regression is performed over a dataset containing students’ traces of online activities and social interactions. The results show that factors such as the social participation of the students (comments, likes), curiosity (opening profiles, following others), and the quality of their answers influence interest and enjoyment within the platform. The results of this study offer new insights into measuring and enhancing student engagement when using educational social media environments.

Intertextuality Of The Story Of Prophet Ayub In The Qur'an And The Bible (Julia Kristeva Semiotic Approach)

The stories of the prophets narrated by the Qur'an have mostly been explained in the Bible. each holy book in narrating the story of the prophet has its own purpose in conveying messages to its followers. Therefore, the stories of the prophets are important to be studied more deeply. This paper aims to analyze the differences in the narration of the story of prophet Ayub in the Qur'an and the Bible. This research uses qualitative methodology through the intertextual approach pioneered by Julia Kristeva in finding a comparison of the two scriptural narratives. This study concludes through the story of prophet Job contained in the Qur'an and the Bible that there is a reduction of narrative by the Qur'an which creates elements of haplology in each fragment. The suffering of prophet Job narrated by the Qur'an is the work of the devil. While the narrative told in the Bible is the devil. However, the general difference between the narratives of the two books is in terms of the themes raised. The Qur'an raises the theme of faithfulness and patience of Prophet Job, while the Bible carries the theme of suffering and piety of Prophet Job.

Developing scientific entrepreneurship and complex thinking skills: creating narrative scripts using ChatGPT

The increased access to artificial intelligence (AI) applications has made it possible to develop more engaging and complex educational activities for students in different disciplines. This research explored expanding university students’ knowledge of scientific entrepreneurship skills using an Artificial Intelligence application. The students participated in a training experience using the conversational ChatGPT language model to generate narrative scripts for various topics on scientific discoveries and technological advances to create new products or services that offer cost-effective solutions based on science. The experience was designed employing the i4C model (identify, ideate, invent, inform). The study used a two-sample design with repeated measurements based on a pre-test and post-test. One hundred five graduate students from two master’s degree programs at the Bolivarian University of Ecuador participated during the 2022–2023 academic period. The results indicate that the students notably improved in acquiring the knowledge necessary for scientific entrepreneurial skills. The study concluded that applying AI ChatGPT with a narrative scripting strategy can create new learning opportunities for students.

Uma roteirização midiática para a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil

Faced with the pandemic crisis caused by the spread of a new type of coronavirus, an undeniable representative of an imminent danger to public health, there has been a huge mobilization of the media towards disseminating information about this health crisis of global proportions. Within this context, this article aims to identify how and which socio-discursive imaginaries are activated to guide the construction of narrative scripts about the disease throughout 2021 on the covers of O Globo, a news outlet with huge diffusion in the State of Rio de Janeiro. For this mapping, this research aims to focus, from a microtextual perspective, on linguistic-discursive resources that emerge from this text, as well as dealing, in a macrotextual dimension, with the mode of narrative organization. To this end, the study is based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the Semiolinguistic Theory of Discourse Analysis (Charaudeau, 2012).

Tapping on Collective National Trauma

Tapping on Collective National Trauma

Pietistic atheism and the modern breakthrough: on the narrative culture of secularity

ABSTRACT Secularity was first substantiated as a cultural practice constitutive of modernity in late-nineteenth-century fiction. The so-called Modern Breakthrough in Danish literature, taking place between 1871 and into the 1880s, is a prime case of a cultural radical movement that translated the modern criticism of religion into a literary and political program. Today, the Danish writer J. P. Jacobsen’s novel Niels Lyhne (1880) remains a classic of the atheistic literature of the period. Its portrayal of the psychological struggles involved in the transition from a tradition of faith to a modern secular society suggest it to be a core document of atheistic identity formation. To contemporaries, however, the psychology of the protagonist Niels Lyhne seemed fundamentally implausible, and his atheism overtly dramatic. By contextualising the literary work in its wider and highly contested narrative culture, this article discusses how narrative scripts first substantiated the modern religious vs secular distinction. In documenting the changing plausibility structures by which Jacobsen’s novel could become prescriptive of the emotional norms of a secular mind, the article explores how literary works shape cultural and emotional realities.

Embedding Educational Narrative Scripts in a Social Media Environment

Embedding Educational Narrative Scripts in a Social Media Environment

When epidemics become narrative, women get bogged down in scripts?

In the article, I follow the fate of women - heroines of the pandemic non-fiction literature in Poland, in order to verify the thesis that when women's experiences, such as pandemics or epidemics, become narratives, they themselves get stuck in women's narrative scripts and their variants characteristic of a specific culture. Treating storytelling, in the vein of anthropologists, as a primarily cultural practice, I wonder whether and how the attribution and/or adoption of stories about their own experiences by the heroines of the pandemic and epidemic, enables them to transgress the boundaries of scripts harmful to them, not invalidating their agency, but loudly manifesting their own point of view, different from the one established in culture.

“Too weak to fight, too scared to scream”: Understanding experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents through digital storytelling

Black female adolescents are less frequently viewed as victims of violence or as agents of resistance. This study analyzed the experiences of sexual coercion of Black female adolescents on the South Side of Chicago through narrative scripts used to create digital stories. Using Sexual Script Theory and applying an intersectional lens, we analyzed a collection of 46 narrative transcripts from Black female youth, living on the South Side of Chicago, five of which specifically focused on the theme of sexual coercion. Under the broader theme of sexual coercion, the following subthemes were identified: (1) broken expectations of romance, (2) sex as a means of seeking attention from a male partner, (3) sex as a means of maintaining a partner, and (4) rape. By better understanding the social context of relationships for Black adolescent girls in heterosexual relationships, we may be able to better design sexual and reproductive health interventions for young women of color.

1288 Animated Patient Information Videos to Enhance Understanding of Free Functional Muscle Transfer Surgery for Dynamic Treatment of Facial Palsy

Abstract Aim Facial palsy affects approximately 25-30 per 100,000 people a year causing physical and psychological symptoms including facial asymmetry, a lack of facial expression, oral incompetence, difficulties in articulation and reduced quality of life. The treatment of choice for many patients is free functional muscle transfer (FFMT), a highly complex surgery. Due to the complexity, patients’ ability to understand and retain information during traditional consultations poses a barrier to truly informed consent. Our study aims to utilise animated patient videos and integrated messaging platform to improve patients’ understanding of FFMT surgery, its potential complications, and recovery period. Method We developed a new electronic adjunct for patients undergoing FFMT surgery to complement the traditional consent process. The platform employs narrated animations and secure integrated messaging service for patients to directly communicate with their surgeon. A multilingual narrative script, suitable for all ages, complements the animations outlining the details of FFMT surgery in multiple subcategories including scar placement, wound care and signs to identify complications. Results We will present a series of patient information videos from 7 subcategories covering all portions of FFMT surgery, demonstrate the ease of use of the messaging platform and summarise the feedback collected. Conclusions We have successfully developed an electronic patient information platform to support the traditional informed consent process for FFMT as a treatment of facial palsy which increases patients’ understanding and engagement. Patients can review every step of their journey, from first entering the hospital until the end of rehabilitation, at their own pace, and as frequently as required.

Optimizing Informed Consent Discussions: Developing a Narrative for Transfusion Consent.

Ensuring patient informed consent is a key tenet of modern medicine. Although transfusion of blood products is among the most common medical procedures performed in hospitalized patients, there is evidence that informed consent for transfusion is at times incomplete, poorly understood, hurried, and/or inaccurate. This study aimed to develop a narrative that can be used as a framework for practicing physicians and for educational purposes to optimize the process for obtaining informed consent for blood transfusion. The narrative was developed using a modified Delphi approach with 5 Rounds that included feedback from transfusion medicine (TM) experts, transfusion-provider physicians, and lay people. The surveys collected qualitative and quantitative data analyzed using thematic content analysis and descriptive statistics, respectively. Results from Rounds 1 and 2 generated a draft narrative and Rounds 3 to 5 informed further modifications. Round 1 included draft narrative scripts from 28 TM experts; thematic coding generated 97 topics. In round 2, 22/28 of the initial experts rated items identified from Round 1. Those with a content validity index (CVI) ≥ 0.8 were used by the authors to develop a narrative. In Round 3, 20/24 participants from Round 2 reviewed the narrative with 100% agreeing on the items included and 90% agreeing the flow was logical. In Round 4, 23 transfusion prescribers (non-TM physicians) reviewed the narrative for flow, manner, length, and usability; there was 83% agreement with the nonexclusion of important topics; 91% felt it would be effective for teaching trainees. Round 5 included 24 nonmedical laypeople of different demographics. Most participants (92%) thought that the script was appropriate in length and there were opportunities to ask questions. Participants could also identify the adverse transfusion reactions and understand that they could refuse the transfusion. A narrative for obtaining informed consent for blood transfusion was created through multiple rigorous iterations of review and feedback with both transfusion providers and the lay public. The narrative, developed for a specific clinical scenario, was well-received by medical and nonmedical participants and can be used, and modified, to help ensure patients understand the risks and benefits of blood transfusion.

“I Thought About Solutions”: How Students’ Narratives of Relational Conflict, Grit, and Agency Predict Academic Performance within Community College

Objective. Theorists have posited that community college students’ socio-academic integrative relationships with other students, college staff, and instructors, as well as their sense of college-related aspiration, mindset, grit, and agency, may impact their academic success. When community college students narrate (i.e., create stories that help them understand, investigate, and communicate) about higher education, they may reflect upon such relational and internal experiences in ways that signal later academic performance. This study reviews how students narrate to reflect upon their relational and internal experiences within a community college. It then connects students’ narrative explorations to their year-end grade point average (GPA). Method. Script analysis was used to explore how 104 ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse community college students reflected on their best and worst college experiences using different scripts, which are collective and shared ways of knowing that people use to organize their understandings of recounted experiences. Multiple regression models linked students’ narrative scripts to their year-end GPA. Results. Students narrated on their college lives using a variety of different scripts. When narrating about their worst experiences, students’ focus on socio-academic relational conflicts and on their grit and agency while coping with college-related difficulties predicted their having a higher year-end GPA. Conclusion. In a partial confirmation of Wang’s and Deil-Amen’s theoretical expectations, students’ narrative expressions of grit and agency, as well as their relational experiences and conflicts with other students, instructors, and staff at college, predicted their academic success.

“I Remembered the Saying” (Tobit 2:6): Recognizing Emotions in Scripture with Tobit and Eve

Abstract This experimental article is methodologically Christian, in the sense that it is structured as a Christian mimesis of how a scriptural saint cited Scripture. However, the choice of subject matter commits it to engaging with the post-Enlightenment secular context, and principles of exegetical, historical, and theological analysis anchor it within wider scholarly debates. Concretely, the article takes the scriptural portrayal of Tobit’s recognition of his own emotion in Scripture as a paradigm or type for one way of encountering Scripture today. The first part examines a vignette of Tobit remembering a scriptural text about grief at a moment when he experiences intense grief. The second, longer part explores the transition to the post-Enlightenment context by performing and interrogating an act of recognizing in Scripture an emotion that has only been theorized since the eighteenth century, namely “disgust,” which is “recognized” in the scriptural narrative of Eve’s temptation in Gen 3. The purpose of the mimetic reception and the scholarly interrogation of it is not to replicate or critique Tobit’s example, but to allow it to be inhabited in a way that can remain meaningful from a Christian perspective without closing our eyes to the real challenges of modernity and, lest it be forgotten, of being human. This is offered simply as one exhibit in a potentially capacious gallery of attempts to learn from the Scriptures and the saints how to inhabit Scripture in the modern world.

A Psycho-Biographical Perspective on the Generativity of Dong Seok-Ki, a Pioneer of the Church of Christ in Korea

본 연구의 목적은 한국그리스도의교회 선구자 동석기의 성숙성에 관하여 심리전기적 관점을 제시해 보는 데 있다. 이를 통해 지금까지 잘 알려지지 않았던 한국교회의 신앙적 전통의 이야기를 발굴하고, 새로운 시대에 양적 성장을 넘어서 질적 성장으로 가는 패러다임과 성숙의 길을 모색해 보고자 했다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 문헌고찰 및 관련 자료를 수집하여 McAdams의 이야기심리학을 활용하여 분석했다. 그 결과, 동석기 성숙성의 심리전기적 관점은 4가지로 드러났다. 즉, ‘후견인 됨’, ‘나라 됨', ‘소박함’, 그리고 ‘친구됨’이었다. 이렇게 구성된 성숙성의 이야기 대본은 '환원적 성숙성'이라고 명명했다. 본 연구를 통해서, 초기 한국 기독교 전통 속에서 성숙성의 주제를 발견하고 이에 대한 시사점을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 교세 중심의 양적 성장을 추구하는 패러다임에서 작고 소박한 것에서도 본질을 찾을 수 있는 질적 패러다임 관점을 제시할 수 있었다. 본 연구가 한국 기독교 선각자들의 이야기를 발굴하고 심리전기 연구를 지속적으로 활성화하는 데 도움이 되리라 기대한다.The purpose of this study is to present a psycho-biographical perspective on the generativity of Dong Seok-ki, a pioneer of the Church of Christ in Korea. To this end, this study collected literature review and related data and analyzed them using McAdams' narrative psychology. As a result, the psycho-biographical perspective of Dong Seok-ki’s generativity was analyzed into four categories. In other words, it was 'becoming a guardian', 'becoming a country', 'simplicity', and 'becoming a friend'. The narrative script of generativity composed in this way was named 'restorational generativity'. Through this study, the theme of generativity in the early Korean Christian tradition was discovered and implications were obtained. In addition, it was possible to present a qualitative paradigm perspective that can find its essence even in small and simple things in the paradigm of pursuing quantitative growth centered on the number of churches.

Blackness after 9/11: topographies of race and counter-terror at the 9/11 memorial museum

ABSTRACT More than a decade after the murder of Trayvon Martin and the creation of the Black Lives Matter protest movement, extrajudicial killings have become all too commonplace in the post-9/11 landscape, mirroring two decades of racialised surveillance against Arab and Muslim populations in the name of counter-terrorism. This paper maps Blackness’ proximity to the U.S. nation-state amidst the emergence of 9/11 memory and the post-9/11 counter-terrorism imaginary. Paramount to the longest war in US history (2001–2021), for example, Black patriotism is a powerful product and purveyor of the military industrial complex’s Global War on Terror. Yet while Black heroism and sacrifice are deeply encoded within the post-9/11 imaginary at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, the Global War on Terrorism has ushered in the re-racialisation of both Brown and Black communities, as well as the fantasy of a “post-racial” nation now firmly in ruin in the age of Trumpism and the alt-right. Analysing key artefacts and narrative scripts within the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, I argue that 9/11 memory and the Global War on Terrorism work in tandem to reproduce new/old geographies of “terror” and “threat”, investigating how Blackness has always been central to the racialised logics of counter-terrorism and state surveillance.

Down with This Sort of Thing: Seth Heringer and the End of the Historical-Critical Method

Down with This Sort of Thing: Seth Heringer and the End of the Historical-Critical Method

Narratology and Myth in R. K. Narayan’s The Man Eater of Malgudi

In The Man Eater of Malgudi, R.K. Narayan makes use of the mythical technique, goes back to ancient myths and legends, juxtaposes them with the facts of modern life and this way brings out similarities and contrasts between the past and present. Narayan stated that “With the impact of modern literature we began to look at the gods, demons, sages and kings of our mythology and epics not as some remote concoctions but as types and symbols, possessing psychological validity even when viewed against the contemporary background. (1979: 21) The fictional space and slice- of- life reality mingle and assume a mythic dimension in his works. Anthropologist Claude –Levi – Strauss once suggested that much of the familiar classical repertoire has a mythological function in modern society. For R.K. Narayan, this familiar repertoire (of mythic, epical and scriptural narratives) serves a creative function. (Sarkar 217) In sharp contrast to his previous novels, Narayan switches over to the mythical discourse in the later part of his career.

The Reconstructive Play of Memory: Commentary on David Edwards’ Case Study of Schema Therapy

This commentary discusses David Edwards’s (2022) case study of "Kelly’s circle of safety and healing: An extended schema therapy narrative and interpretative investigation," published in Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. It examines Edwards’s efforts to integrate his imagistic/experiential therapeutic approach to a client’s maladaptive schemas based in childhood recollections with a contemporary model of autobiographical memory, Conway’s Self Memory System. Although I think there is much merit in this integration, particularly in highlighting reconstructive and re-imagining aspects of memory, I call attention to crucial relational dimensions of this reconstruction in a therapeutic dyad. Similarly, in encouraging continued development of this synthesis between schema therapy and autobiographical memory research, I suggest that constructs from Narrative Identity theory including the life story, self-defining memories, and narrative scripts would be of great value. Finally, I note that we are still in preliminary stages of establishing empirical linkages that would support Kelly’s full integrative vision.

Review: Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, by Susanne Verheul

Review: <i>Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000</i>, by Susanne Verheul