Environmental Themes in Popular Narratives

Exploring Environmental and Service Factors Influencing Violence and Aggression in Popular Iranian Premier League Teams

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the environmental and service dimensions affecting the spectator violence of popular Iranian Premier League teams. Method: The method of this study is qualitative and survey type. First, library studies were done to prepare a list of factors that affect violence and then through in-depth and semi-structured interviews with experts. The sampli...

Scientific themes in the popular literature and the poetry of the German Enlightenment, 1720–1760

Tragic Narratives in Popular Culture: Depictions of Homicide in Rap Music

Homicide is a rare event, but depictions of it are quite common in our culture and discourse. Commercially successful rappers have appropriated homicide as a central theme in their lyrical compositions. The tremendous success of rap music is indicative of its increasing popular appeal and cultural impact. We reveal the ways homicide is constructed within rap music and its frequency of occurrenc...

Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Using Sentiment, Themes, and Named Entities to Construct Stories

As the quantity and variety of personal digital data shared on social media continues to grow, how can users make sense of it? There is growing interest among HCI researchers in using narrative techniques to support interpretation and understanding. This work describes our prototype application, ReelOut, which uses narrative techniques to allow users to understand their data as more than just a...

Narratives and Sensemaking of an Organizationally-Based Environmental Disaster

This work investigates the narratives of corporations, public agencies, politicians, unions, lawyers, public attorneys and community in different public inquiries undertaken as a response to an organizationally-based environmental disaster in Brazil. In order to understand the phenomenon, this paper creates a framework that integrates sensemaking, narrative analysis and theater metaphor. Then w...