Notion Of Frame Research Articles

Seizing overflows: exploring how accounting becomes emancipatory

Purpose Through an in-depth case study, this paper aims to investigate how workplace struggles can meaningfully change management accounting practices. Design/methodology/approach This is an archival study drawing on 10 years of governmental documents, news media and a court case. The theoretical notions of framing and overflowing are used to investigate how a calculative change was introduced, problematized and reverted. Findings An initiative to increase care quality through the empowerment of care recipients led to a calculative change and to an intensification of work, which union representatives turned into a health and safety complaint. “Seizing” the overflow from the calculative change and “redirecting” it into the health and safety arena allowed the unions to draw support from the national work health and safety agency. In response, the organization rolled back the calculative change. Originality/value This paper introduces the notions of seizing and redirecting overflows. When combined with conduits of overflows, a part of Callon’s (1998) conceptual apparatus that previously has received little attention, these notions constitute a framework that helps identify conditions that make emancipatory uses of accounting and control outputs possible.

Girls at War, Girls in War: Three Female African Child Soldier Narratives

In echoing Obioma Nnaemeka’s fluid understanding of the war front and her insistence on the need to expand the notion of war as armed conflict to incorporate the idea of war as a figure of violence against humanity and human dignity, this article examines witness narratives by and about former female African child soldiers in Uganda and Eritrea. A critical reading of China Keitetsi’s Child Soldier (2002), Senait Mehari’s Heart of Fire (2006), and Evelyn Amony’s I Am Evelyn Amony (2015) reveals that the girl child is continually in/at war, regardless of whether she is at home or on the battlefield. Adopting Judith Butler’s strand of precarity and her notion of framing, the article teases out the nodes of African female livelihood in the militarised patriarchal cultures related in the memoirs, emphasising how the female African child soldier’s body occupies, inhabits, and lives through spaces of combat and domestic violence. The study also examines the feminist critique of otherness and aggressiveness towards those whose lives are considered less grievable and the authors’ agentive paradigm in their writing.

Frames in the Social Sciences

The purpose of this overview is to provide a multi-disciplinary introduction to existing notions of frame and framing in the social sciences. In doing this, we review main interpretations of the concept provided by different disciplines, and focus on their main knowledge spillovers for other fields of scientific inquiry. Finally, we discuss why frames and framing are one of main tools in the building of relational social sciences.

How AI challenges the medical device regulation: patient safety, benefits, and intended uses

Abstract This article examines whether the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) adequately addresses the novel risks of AI-based medical devices (AIaMDs), focusing on AI medical imaging tools. It examines two questions: first, does the MDR effectively deal with issues of adaptability, autonomy, bias, opacity, and the need of trustworthiness of AIaMD? Second, does the manufacturer’s translation of the MDR’s requirements close a discrepancy between an AIaMDs’ expected benefit and the actual clinical utility of assessing device safety and effectiveness beyond the narrow performance of algorithms? While the first question has previously received attention in scholarly literature on regulatory and policy tensions on AIaMD generally, and work on future technical standard setting, the second has been comparatively overlooked. We argue that effective regulation of AIaMD requires framing notions of patient safety and benefit within the manufacturer’s articulation of the device’s intended use, as well as reconciling tensions. These tensions are on (i) patient safety and knowledge gaps surrounding fairness, (ii) trustworthiness and device effectiveness, (iii) the assessment of clinical performance, and (iv) performance updates. Future guidance needs to focus on the importance of translated benefits, including nuanced risk framing and looking at how the limitations of AIaMD inform the intended purpose statement in the MDR.

Ideology and the contextualization of ancient Chinese judicial opinions

Legal genres are situation-sensitive and one same genre may take different structural and functional patterns according to the historical context within which it is situated. Judicial opinions of ancient China, for example, look like a totally different genre in contrast with the language of modern Chinese judicial documents. It is not uncommon that county magistrates’ (ancient Chinese judges) writing considerably downplays the task of reasoning and argumentation and becomes fully devoted to the provision of emotional narratives regarding defendants’ wrong-doings and to the meta-communication of imperial ideological values to grassroots. This paper looks into why ideology is a key concern of ancient Chinese judicial writing, what concrete ideological values are actually invoked and how they are interactively disseminated. The analytical framework combines the notion of contextualization (Gumperz, 1982), interactive framing (Tannen, 1993), and footing (Goffman, 1981). Through a nuanced interpretation of the relatedness of imperial ideological values and judicial language structures, the authors attempt to reveal how ancient judicial opinions are built as speech activities of performing identities and activities of presenting ideological stances and beliefs.

Paratexts in factual comics: how to know if and when we are faced with “reality”?

It tries to enumerate some of the paratextual strategies of comics that seek to establish some kind of referential relationship with reality (in factual or fictional terms). For this, is based on the notions of metacommunication and framing (Bateson, Watzlawick, Goffman), metasign (Volli), paratext (Genette), the status of fictional text (Searle), and sign as (also) an instrument lie (Eco, Bougnoux, from Peirce). Four works are analysed: A arte de Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Sonny Liew, 2015); As mais loucas aventuras de Mickey (Lewis Trondheim e Nicolas Keramidas, 2016); Oleg (Frederik Peeters, 2020); e Guardiões do Louvre (Jiro Taniguchi, 2014). In the end, some peculiarities of the corpus are perceived, such as the editorial position of the catalog sheet.

Framing victimhood, making war: A linguistic historicizing of secessionist discourses

Abstract As separatist yearnings resurge and gain traction in Nigeria, the agency of language and digitality in spreading dissident discourses has come under scrutiny. In this study, I investigate the linguistic-historical dimension of the Biafran movements, exploring the rhetorical frames by which the actors curate ethnic victimhood and sustain the secessionist struggle. Drawing on a corpus of memoiristic narrative of the Biafra war and digitally mediated discourses from a new Biafran movement – Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), I identify and discuss the central topoi of warspeak in both narratives across space and time. In this context, the notions of linguistic framing and atrocity propaganda are fruitfully integrated to analyse the range of rhetorical strategies for incentivizing the struggle and for animating its social capital. While both narratives draw on shared belongings, historical precedents, cultural frameworks, and atrocity stories for incitement, they vary in style and audience. I attribute the shifts to changes in actors’ demographics, discursive contexts, and Nigeria’s ethnopolitical cartographies.

How to read (and understand) folk poetry? Аn example of applying a cognitive approach to the study of an oral Arabic tradition from Northern Morocco

In this paper, I offer reading of the oral tradition of the Jbala (Northern Morocco) from the cognitive perspective. To get a better understanding of the process of spontaneous poetic creation I use the notions of frame and script and apply them to the genre of ayyu, a short improvised oral poetic genre from the Jbala region. In the introductory section, I briefly present the field of cognitive poetics and discuss last advances in it. Then I present the oral poetic tradition of the Jbala and demonstrate how frames and scripts operate when poetry is performed live by analyze in detail two frames, typical of Jebli poetry together with the scripts associated with them, and then summarize my findings in the concluding section of the paper.

Cueing Scientific Explanations: A Social Semiotic Perspective on Framing during Science Instruction in the Elementary School Classroom

Reforms within science education strive to shift early science instruction (K − 2) so students have ample sense-making opportunities to construct scientific explanations. Classroom discussions play a key role in supporting these endeavors. This requires that classroom discussions are shaped in ways that foster scientific instruction and learning. In this study, we take a social semiotic perspective on Goffman’s notions of frames and participation framework to explore how a first-grade teacher accessed and supported his students’ scientific explanation construction within whole-class discussions. Our research questions ask how scientific explanations are framed during science discussions and how this framing influences student scientific explanations and participation in science talk. Evidence suggests that the teacher’s framing resulted in miscues regarding the frame and participation framework necessary to participate in the discussion. When students encountered these miscues, their participation was thwarted and opportunities for articulating scientific sense-making were lost. Implications for this study identify the importance of semiotic resources for framing science instruction during classroom discussions and the architecture of interactional spaces.

Frame Operators for Frames in Krein Spaces

In recent years, frames in Krein spaces and several generalizations have been extensively studied. In this paper, we propose an alternative way of looking at the notion of frames in Krein spaces and give a necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence in a Krein space to be a Bessel sequence. We observe that a subsequence of a frame in a Krein space need not be a frame. Also, two complementary subsequences are considered in which one of them is a frame for a Krein space. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions under which the other one is also a frame for the Krein space.

Influencer marketing and the ‘gifted’ product: framing practices and market shaping

ABSTRACT This article investigates the development of the market for influencer marketing in Sweden. It does so by focusing on the issue of ‘stuff’ sent to influencers. Such exchanges can be framed in different ways: e.g. stuff sent for the purpose of earning media, or as compensation for a marketing service. Drawing on the notion of framing in Callonian economic sociology, the paper identifies three ‘framing practices’: (1) framing the sending of stuff to influencers in individual exchanges, (2) reframing exchanges to put them in new light, or (3) preframing how exchanges ought to be performed. In efforts to frame exchanges of stuff, their broader context, and how stuff should be taxed, influencers, marketing professionals and the Swedish Tax Agency contribute to shaping the market for influencer marketing.

Approximately dual frames of vector‐valued nonstationary Gabor frames and reconstruction errors

Nonstationary Gabor (NSG) frames for allow for flexible sampling and varying window functions and have found applications in adaptive signal analysis. Recently, the first author of this paper generalized the notion of NSG frames for to the space of vector‐valued signals and investigated the existence of vector‐valued NSG (VVNSG) frames. In this paper, we consider the reconstruction of any functions in from coefficients obtained from VVNSG frames. We provide different approximately dual frames of VVNSG frames and give the corresponding reconstruction error bounds. In particular, for a special class of VVNSG frames that are related to painless VVNSG frames, we show that the approximately dual frames carry the VVNSG structure, which is very important since there exist fast analysis and reconstruction algorithms for VVNSG frames. We also provide a method to construct the special class of VVNSG Bessel sequences. Finally, a constructive example is given to illustrate the theoretical results.

Calculative frames, compromising metrics, and the multiple values of innovation: The case of technology incubation in the UK

Complex organizations are faced with numerous demands that translate into different assessments of value. We focus here on the agency of performance metrics and how they represent and mediate multiple and contrasting values. We draw on a case study of technology incubation, a complex site where attempts to meet the sometimes conflicting demands of stakeholders inevitably lead to multiple assessments of the value of innovation. We propose a theoretical model inspired by Beunza and Garud’s (2007) notion of calculative frame, positing that each frame expresses value in terms of a dominant principle of worth, a metaphorical root, and the key metrics of worth. We then explore how and under what conditions the tensions among frames are mediated by compromising metrics. Our paper contributes to the literature on socio-materiality by strengthening the conceptual linkages between the elements of calculative frames and theorizing their co-constituted character. In this way we broaden the applicability of the calculative frame model to performance measurement in complex organizations. We also contribute to the management accounting literature on tensions and compromise by providing an account of the agency of performance metrics and the mechanisms of combinability through which they mediate a compromise among conflicting frames, and bridge frames that are not in conflict.

Continuous frames in n-Hilbert spaces and their tensor products

We introduce the notion of continuous frame in n-Hilbert space which is a generalization of discrete frame in n-Hilbert space. The tensor product of Hilbert spaces is a very important topic in mathematics. Here we also introduce the concept of continuous frame for the tensor products of n-Hilbert spaces. Further, we study dual continuous frame and continuous Bessel multiplier in n-Hilbert spaces and their tensor products.

Adaptive framing of sustainability in CEO letters

PurposeThis study provides insights into the external powers that can influence business leaders' communication on sustainability. It shows how the socio-political context manifested in national and transnational policies, regulations and other socio-political events can influence the CEO talk about sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an interpretative and qualitative method of analysis using the lenses of the theoretical concepts of framing and legitimacy, analysing CEOs’ letters from 10 multinational industrial companies based in Sweden, over the period of 2008–2019.FindingsThe results show that various discourses of sustainability, emerging from policies and regulatory initiatives, socio-political events and civil society activism, are reflected in the ways CEOs frame sustainability over time. This article reveals that CEOs not only lead the discourse of profitable sustainability, but they also slowly adapt their sustainability talk to other discourses led by the policymakers, regulators and civil society. This pattern of a slow adaptation is especially visible in a period characterised by increased discourses of climate urgency and regulations related to social and environmental sustainability.Research limitations/implicationsThe theoretical frame is built by integrating the concepts of legitimacy and framing. Appreciating dynamic notions of legitimacy and framing, the study suggests a novel view of reporting as a film series, presenting many frames of sustainability over time. It helps the study to conceptualise CEO framing of sustainability as adaptive framing. This study suggests using a dynamic notion of adaptive framing in future longitudinal studies of corporate- and accounting communication.Practical implicationsThe results show that policymakers, regulators and civil society, through their initiatives, influence the CEOs' framing of sustainability. It is thus important for regulators to substantiate sustainability-related discourses and develop conceptual tools and language of social and environmental sustainability that can lead CEO framing more effectively.Originality/valueThe study engages with Goffman's notion of dynamic framing. Dynamic framing suggests a novel view of reporting as a film series, presenting many frames of sustainability over time and conceptualises CEO framing of sustainability as adaptive framing.

Translated Political Opinion Articles: A Narrative Approach

The spread of political narratives across language boundaries lies on the shoulders of translators. They play a major role in legitimizing or delegitimizing certain narratives over others. This study utilizes narrative theory and the notion of framing as backgrounds to analyze translated articles and explore the translation strategies translators use as they translate into Arabic articles written originally in English by Thomas Friedman. This study’s significance comes from its exploration of narratives in translated political opinion articles. It seeks to answer the question, how has Alittihad newspaper carried out its translation of Friedman’s articles with respect to narrative theory? The study reveals Alittihad’s tendency to reframe Friedman’s articles to avoid framing public figures or countries negatively and elevate the formality of the articles’ language. It also shows that the newspaper uses mostly deletion as a translation strategy to reframe the articles.

Melody Mystery: Learning Music Theory through Escape Room Puzzles

This paper explores the use of escape room puzzles and instructional scaffolding in teaching novice learners about basic music theory. This study used the notion of epistemic frames in games as the basis for its experiment, combined with the use of technology-based scaffolding. We examined how effective it is to engage and motivate novice learners when they are made to mimic the role of an expert in music and solve problems using their knowledge and skills in the subject. We found positive responses from participants’ attitudes toward music theory and the ability to retain knowledge of the subject, as well as evidence which proves that games can have significant effects on motivation in the learning process.

Ruminating on Seaweed: An Annotated Photo‐Essay. Exploring the Film‐Philosophy of Pierre Creton with the Seaweed‐Eating Sheep of North Ronaldsay

In 1993, recently graduated filmmaker Pierre Creton returned to his rural Normandy roots. There, he has continued to make films alongside his neighbours in the agricultural environment to which he remains intimately tied. His philosophy of film‐ making is summarised in the title of a 2010 book, Cultiver, habiter, filmer – inhabit, cultivate, film. Contrary to more traditional notions of framing, distance and objectivity, here lens‐based media is recognised as an apparatus that takes us into an aleatory, reciprocating process of inhabiting, nurturing and being nourished by a place – its geology, architectures, rhythms and populations, human and nonhuman. The ethics of encounter, ecology and openness is intimately embroiled in Creton’s growing, beekeeping and animal husbandry, as well as his art making. This photo‐essay and accompanying text investigates Creton’s maker‐philosophy in the context of the Orcadian island of North Ronaldsay, famous for its seaweed‐eating sheep, kept at the littoral edges by the island’s stone dykes – themselves a high‐maintenance apparatus. Led by Creton's ideas, through observation and habitation‐with, these sheep become for the artist‐writer more than subjects for the camera; they become guides as to how to inhabit and cultivate the watery margins of the archipelago. They become exemplary artists in their own right.

Political, Cultural, and Social Factors in the Transformations of the Children’s Book Market in Poland on the Example of Nasza Księgarnia Publishing House

Poland’s turbulent history, marked by several changes in the political system, has combined with dynamic economic, social, and cultural factors to profoundly affect the operations of all industries, including the publishing sector. This paper outlines the development of Nasza Księgarnia (literally: Our Bookshop), a publishing house founded in 1921 whose one-century- long history perfectly embodies the profound transformations which the Polish market of children’s and young adults’ books has experienced from the moment Poland regained sovereign statehood in 1918, through the communist period and the political transition of 1989, to the beginning of the new millennium. The argument is theoretically underpinned by the framework proposed by Michael Bhaskar (Bhaskar 2013), and the operations of Nasza Księgarnia are examined in terms of its crucial notions of framing, filtering, and amplification. At the same time, Hans Heino-Ewers’s (Heino-Ewers 2009) model of children’s literary communication is applied to highlight the specific role of Nasza Księgarnia as a publisher for children and young adults. These two theoretical tools offer insight into the ways in which political and social changes affected the evolution of the publishing repertoire and the editorial form of the children’s book in Poland throughout and at the turn of the 20th century.

Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research

This critical review of more than three decades of studies of frames and framing in Social Movement (SM) research first offers a brief history of the notion of ‘frame’ in various disciplines, and then discusses empirical studies of frame alignment, frame disputes, frame resonance and master frames, among other notions. It is found that the very notion of discursive of cognitive frames remains very vague in these studies, and what are actually studied are for instance, beliefs, attitudes, goals, ideologies or values, especially how they are expressed in discourse. Also studies of relations between frames and culture, identity and discourse show that the notions of frames and framing are theoretically and methodologically unsatisfactory in empirical studies. It is concluded that the methods of the cultural paradigm of SM research may take advantage of the advances of more explicit methods in the study of language, discourse, interaction and cognition.