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Poetics

期刊简介

Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics - within which promising lines of research on culture, media and the arts have been developed.

Poetics would be pleased to consider, for example, the following types of papers:

  • Sociological research on participation in the arts; media use and consumption; the conditions under which makers of cultural products operate; the functioning of institutions that make, distribute and/or judge cultural products, arts and media policy; etc.

  • Psychological research on the cognitive processing of cultural products such as literary texts, films, theatrical performances, visual artworks; etc.

  • Media and communications research on the globalization of media production and consumption; the role and performance of journalism; the development of media and creative industries; the social uses of media; etc.

  • Economic research on the funding, costs and benefits of commercial and non-profit organizations in the fields of art and culture; choice behavior of audiences analysed from the viewpoint of the theory of lifestyles; the impact of economic institutions on the production or consumption of cultural goods; etc.

The production and consumption of media, art and culture are highly complex and interrelated phenomena. Our insight into these broad domains will be considerably enhanced by studies focusing on the interrelationships of the many factors that shape behavior towards art, culture and the media.

Poetics

期刊影响力

  • CiteScore（引用分）：数值为 4.5。CiteScore是 Elsevier （爱思唯尔）基于 Scopus 数据库计算的指标，能够衡量期刊平均每篇文章在一定时间内被引用的次数，从而反映期刊整体影响力和文章被关注程度。

  • Impact Factor（影响因子）：数值为 1.7。IF由 Clarivate Analytics（科睿唯安）基于 Web of Science 数据库计算，计算方式为某期刊前两年发表论文在统计年被引用总次数除以该期刊前两年发表论文总数。IF是国际上常用评判期刊学术水平的指标之一 ，体现期刊近期论文被引用的频率和学术影响力 。

Poetics

最新目录

Poetics 为双月刊，最新一期(Volume 111，August 2025)的内容，分为“Regular Articles”“Research Note”“Special Issue on: Duality in the Study of Culture and Society”三个栏目，共计8篇文章，详情如下。

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Regular Articles

Investigating Musical Taxonomy in the era of Streaming Platforms: Insights from Rap music through actual consumption data

Myriam Boualami, Camille Roth

This paper examines the musical boundaries that emerge from the distinct consumption patterns of rap audiences. Using the actual listening histories of around 1000 French users of the music streaming platform Deezer, we apply dimensionality reduction and clustering methods to explore the musical boundaries that emerge from distinctive audience consumption patterns, with a particular focus on rap music. We show that these boundaries exhibit salient thematic distinctions, and each region of the map holds its own combination of themes. Focusing on six demographic groups based on age and gender, we find that each exhibits a unique pattern of music preference across the highlighted boundaries. Our findings deepen and renew our understanding of the dynamics in which music boundaries are formed, and highlight the importance of studying and comprehending these dynamics, showcasing one way to shed light on that matter.

Is fiction a remedy for our wish to live many lives? Testing a popular assumption among contemporary readers

Cristina Loi

A widespread assumption about the intrinsic function of reading fiction is that it allows us to live other lives beyond our own, satisfying our need to experience alternative identities. This claim is not only recurring among some of the most quoted statements made by literary authors (Eco, 1991; Martin, 20,111; Vargas Llosa, 1984), but it is also at the core of theories within media psychology and literary studies that focus on fundamental motivations for engaging with narratives (TEBOTS, Slater et al., 2014; Storyworld Possible Selves, Martínez, 2014). This study investigates whether this motivation for reading is part of the conscious perception of avid readers, in a comprehensive sample of various contemporary reading practices (books, digital fiction, and Wattpad). In a within-subjects design with an indirect approach, readers (N = 498) were presented with two short literary excerpts (one on the theme of unrealized possibilities and one unrelated “control” excerpt) via an online survey. They were asked to elaborate freely on their immediate reactions and to complete a measure for individual differences on their “sense of possibility” (Musil, 1965), operationalized through the Maximization and Regret (Schwartz et al., 2002) personality traits. Results obtained with a mixed-methods content analysis show that individuals with an active sense of possibility are significantly more likely to report that they regularly experience feelings of longing towards their alternative lives. Additionally, within this subset of readers, 34.5 % also spontaneously mentioned that they read fiction in order to satisfy this longing because it allows them to assume alternative identities.

Cultural critics as moral reputational entrepreneurs: Controversy, metaethical discourse, and authority in the documentary fieldChristine Delp

Christine Delp

Many cultural production fields engage with questions around the ethics of representation: how should a story be told? I argue that when covering controversial cultural products, cultural critics engage in metaethical discourse about the right way to “do” ethics in the greater cultural production field they are covering. Using the documentary field as a case study, I conducted a discourse analysis of 228 publications written by cultural critics in response to nine controversial documentaries. I demonstrate how cultural critics frame representational transgressions as moral controversies, identifying four types of moral controversy and four types of metaethical discourse commonly invoked by critics. This metaethical discourse signals different sources of authority within the documentary field. I argue that through their coverage of controversy, cultural critics play a key role as moral reputational entrepreneurs, signaling what types of representational transgressions are elevated to moral controversies, as well as uplifting both established and alternative sources of authority in the field.

Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature

Lukas Kosch, Günther Stocker, Annika Ahrens-Schwabe, Hajo Boomgaarden

Audiobooks have a rich history, evolving from Edison's invention of the phonograph to today's digital audiobooks. Initially considered auxiliary to printed books, audiobooks now enjoy concurrent release and widespread consumption, evident in market growth and increased user engagement. Persistent debates surround the classification of audiobook perception as reading, proponents advocating equivalence while critics contend that they are distinct modes of reception and aesthetic experience. Based on a praxeological approach and a theoretical framework encompassing text, medium, listeners, situations & practices and their resulting effects, this focus group study (n = 34) revealed nuanced perceptions and self-descriptions of regular audiobook listeners, indicating clear distinctions between reading and listening. Despite divergent opinions, the participants demonstrate awareness of their motivations, concrete text selection, specific practices, and contextual factors that influence their choice of reception modality. This research highlights the implications of shifting from print reading to digital listening and the disparities and similarities between the auditory and visual reception of literary texts.

Mentioning the unmentionable: Perception of opportunities, agency, emotions, and identity in Iranian resistance rap prior and during the women, life, freedom uprisings

Danial Vahabli

Scholarship on resistance in a strong authoritarian context focuses on everyday acts of resistance and loose solidarity networks prior to protests and overt discursive resistance during the protests. These trends are disjointed since they ignore the public discursive spaces surrounding dissidents in their everyday life and hence fail to historicize overt discursive resistance. To bridge this gap, I introduce “discursive nonmovements” which refer to covertly transgressive yet public discursive spaces that are produced independent of the government, social movement organizations, or political leaders. Such spaces facilitate the creation of loose solidarity networks prior to protests and build the foundation for communicating radical dissent in opportune times without the help of political leaders. Further during uprisings, creators turn the discursive nonmovements to overt protest discourse. By analyzing Iranian rap songs prior and during the Women, Life, Freedom movement using critical discourse analysis, I show how songs have changed from implicit, hopeless, allegorical, and melancholic to explicit, hopeful, and vengeful. The transition is a process of “mentioning the unmentionable” which serves as a public open invitation for ordinary citizens to engage in extraordinary acts of resistance.

Cancel like you mean it! dual processes, dual attitudes, and moral hypocrisy in cancel culture

Andreas Tutić, Sascha Grehl

This paper explores the cognitive processes underlying cancel culture through the lens of the dual-process perspective, which distinguishes between intuitive (Type 1) and reflective (Type 2) modes of thinking. Using a survey experiment with an experimental manipulation of decision-making mode, we examine how politically incorrect statements about immigration and climate change influence canceling decisions. Both explicit and implicit attitudes towards xenophobia and climate change were measured to understand their impact on canceling behaviors. Our findings show that politically incorrect statements lead to higher rates of canceling in the reflective condition compared to the intuitive condition, with explicit attitudes playing a stronger role in reflective decision-making. Importantly, the discrepancy between implicit and explicit attitudes not only shapes the treatment effect of decision-making mode but also reveals patterns of moral hypocrisy. Under reflective conditions, individuals often cancel others to conform to social norms, even when their implicit attitudes conflict with these public actions. This highlights the complex interplay between cognition, social norms, and moral judgment in cancel culture, where reflective thinking may lead to performative rather than genuine moral behavior.

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Research Note

“If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques

Laura Garbes, Thomas Marlow

This Research Notes piece explores how journalists use digital platforms to shift conversations about a single event into broader critiques about their industry. In this paper, we document this shift in the case of Audie Cornish’s departure from National Public Radio. We analyze a corpus of 7886 tweets related to her 2022 move from public radio to CNN. How did journalists respond to the event via digital platforms? And what prompted a shift to critical metajournalistic discourse? We find that alongside well wishes for Cornish as an individual, journalists in this context leveraged this individual event occurring within the industry space to call attention to a structural issue in the industry: an inability to retain journalists of color. This initial critical metadiscourse occurring on Twitter gained traction through a tweet by an insider with high cultural capital: Audie Cornish’s co host, Ari Shapiro. The industry critique angle got picked up by traditional news media outlets; it was further amplified by a larger group of journalists on social media. These journalists were then able to further nuance and complicate the issue of diversity and inclusion in the public radio by calling attention to the experiences of less prominent people of color in the industry. Analyzing this discourse offers a case of how critical metajournalistic discourse may emerge on digital platforms, get consolidated and legitimated through traditional news sources, and then get amplified and further nuanced through these same digital platforms.

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Special Issue on: Duality in the Study of Culture and Society

Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling

Ronald L. Breiger, Alessandro Lomi, Francesca Pallotti

In this paper we reimagine linear regression modeling as a relational method for cultural analysis. Drawing on the dual-to-regression analytic approach (Schoon, Melamed & Breiger, 2024), we argue that the fundamental building blocks in a regression equation are not single variables, but configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases. In a study of peer effects and achievement in an academic institution, we show how the regression model itself may be understood as positing a network of pairwise influence relations among social actors that produces the outcome as modeled by the regression. Moreover, this network is appropriate for studying homophily (the tendency for individuals with similar characteristics to have social network connections). We push the new, case-oriented thinking about the regression model of Schoon et al. by incorporating information on networks of social relations connecting the cases. We find that, when profile similarity boosts academic performance, high-density social network clusters are discovered. We demonstrate that it is sometimes useful to consider configurations of cases as the “variables” in a regression model. We argue that this methodological innovation has a distinctive pragmatic value and strong theoretical motivation in the specific empirical context of our study, and beyond.

Synthetic duality: A framework for analyzing generative artificial intelligence's representation of social reality

Daniel Karell, Jeffrey Sachs, Ryan Barrett

The development of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has caused concern about its potential risks, including how its ability to generate human-like texts could affect our shared perception of the social world. Yet, it remains unclear how best to assess and understand genAI's influence on our understanding of social reality. Building on insights into the representation of social worlds within texts, we introduce a framework for analyzing genAI's content and its consequences for perceptions of social reality. We demonstrate this “synthetic duality” framework in two parts. First, we show that genAI can create, with minimal guidance, reasonable portrayals of actors and ascribe relational meaning to those actors – virtual social worlds within texts, or “Mondo-Breigers”. Second, we examine how these synthetic documents with interior social worlds affect readers’ view of social reality. We find that they change individuals’ perceptions of actors depicted in the documents, likely by updating individuals’ expectations about the actors and their meanings. However, additional exploratory analyses suggest it is texts’ style, not their construction of “Mondo-Breigers”, that might be influencing people's perceptions. We end with a discussion of theoretical and methodological implications, including how genAI may unsettle structural notions of individuality. Namely, reimagining the duality of individuals and groups could help theorize growing homogeneity in an increasingly genAI-informed world.

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