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This section presents organization and management theory conference paper abstracts. "Factors That Impact Sales Person's Performance in Virtual Environments" aims to understand the effects of sales persons' location on their sales quota achievement. "Can Progress Be Resistant to Bad Institutions? The Case of ICT" shows that cross-country differences in the use of information and communication technologies are to a considerable extent due to differences in the investment climate. "Chance, Choice, & Inevitability in Strategy," discusses strategic choice.

This section presents several abstracts of research about organizational communication. The progress of the past seven years of field study research on work group effectiveness was examined in the paper titled "Work Team Effectiveness Field Research: Progress and Prospects." An analysis of thirty-six empirical studies reveals that work team field research is proceeding primarily along dimensions of interdependence, autonomy, diversity and conflict. In the paper "Temporal Effects of Relational Stocks on Technology-Enabled Group Performance," the authors extend existing group development models by employing a complementary stock perspective. Results suggest more complex implications of utilizing technology than previously observed delays in relational development that accompanies technology use.

The article presents a section of abstracts on conference papers. They include one about black and white photography of life at work and at home, one regarding the structure of leadership as a creative artistic process, and one discussing what the Hawaiian islands can teach about self-improvement for managers.

The article presents abstracts on topics about social issues in management which include the responses of firms to radical regulatory change, plagiarism among Academy of Management members, and a global governance framework for corporate social responsibility.

The article presents abstracts on organizational communication and information systems which include the application of experience in a new product development team, the use of a commons perspective to examine the dynamic interplay between private-public interests around large-scale information technology systems, and virtual, written-based knowledge sharing.

The article presents abstracts on management education and development topics which include students' reactions to Facebook "friend" requests from professors and parents, content analysis of strategic management textbooks, and teaching strategic management via a graphic novel approach.

This section presents abstracts of several studies related to organizational behavior. Michael Humphreys and Andrew D. Brown argued that a narrative approach can assist researchers in their efforts to analyze organizational identities and sensemaking processes, as political maneuvers designed to legitimate certain interests while marginalizing others. Jenny M. Hoobler investigated whether abusive supervision may be a behavior not necessarily aimed at a specific subordinate, but instead the result of a displeasure by a supervisor with his or her organization. Hwee-Hoon Tan, Maw-Der Foo and Min-Hui Kwek proposed that customer traits play a part in the service encounter. Violet Ho adopted a dyadic-level perspective to examine the impact of social influence on employees' perceptions of psychological contract fulfillment. Kelly L. Zellars and colleagues used survey responses from restaurant employees and their supervisors to investigate linkages between the justice perceptions of employees and organizational citizenship behavior. Greg R. Oldham and Markus Baer proposed that employees exhibit creativity at work when conditions are present that facilitate both the generation of creative ideas and the sharing of these ideas with others.

The article presents abstracts on organization and management theory topics which include differences between Convention Theory and New Organizational Institutionalism, the relationship between status and uncertainty, and the people variations in networks that can affect organizational performance.

The article presents abstracts on topics about research methods which include the presence of research misconduct within the management discipline, the effects of item redundancy on contextualized self-reports of personality, and bias in employee selection.

Many publications have been published on gamification in recent years, especially in the educational context. Research suggests that gamification can positively impact the learning experience and increase learner engagement. So far, gamification elements have been used or examined primarily to signal performance and progress. However, immersionoriented elements or mechanics, such as narratives and storytelling, have been examined in research studies less frequently. Previous studies on gamification neglected the group of senior learners, although gamified systems hold a motivating potential for all ages. Therefore, this publication presents considerations for a narrative as part of the gamification approach for senior learners in the ePA-Coach project. The project aims to develop an e-learning environment for the elderly to improve their digital literacy in the context of the German electronic health record (EHR). Based on the review of the current literature, this paper provides an overview of different definitions, types, frameworks, and application examples. On the basis of this overview, we derived an approach and requirements for designing narratives in the context of gamification. Furthermore, we outline considerations for designing a narrative for senior learners with focus on learning outcomes in the field of digital literacy related to the use of the electronic health record. This narrative includes the mission called Find & Fill the Golden Record in which senior learners visit different places in a virtual small town. We describe options for design of the narrative including the stations as part of the learner's journey. The narrative was developed based on the derived requirements for designing narratives, the reification generic template by Mader et al (2019), the brainstorming designthinking method, and qualitative feedback from experts. The narrative approach described in this paper offers a first conceptual approach for the development of narratives for gamified digital learning applications for the elderly that other researchers and designers can use and extend. The paper ends with conclusions and next steps in the research and development of a narrative as part of the gamification approach in the ePA-Coach project and proposes recommendations for further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses and explores trust development in workplaces empirically in the changing health care sector bringing also an aesthetics perspective into the theoretical discussion. The paper focuses on the role of trust within workplace interaction, particularly raising a timely view of health care work context (nurses). The aesthetic side of leadership is studied, as it is inherent in health care leadership due to professional highlight in physical care. Trust-building as an essential skill for leaders is seen as a 'sensory experience' occurring in interaction within relationships. Hence, trust itself is a driving force engendering and shaping relationships and their dynamics. In the paper, a qualitative approach is adopted aiming at deepening our understanding of the perceptions of nurses in their organizational contexts. The data consists of 15 written narratives from nurses' experiences in healthcare organizations in Finland. Thematic content analysis is employed in the data analysis. Sharing emotions is highlighted in reporting the empirical findings. Without actions, trust may simply falter although the trust development process also inherently includes times of calm. The data highlights the significance of appreciation, especially feedback and commendation. Appreciation is expressed as a basis for trust -building by interaction and dialogue. Appreciation seems to be one of the cornerstones of the trust development process. The findings are discussed in more detailed in the paper. The paper provides new insights on change management of health care organizations by focusing on the role of trust in leader communication. Managerial implications highlight the appreciation of nurses' work and opinions: listening to nurses enhances trust building within health care organizations. Understanding processes of trust through the lens of aesthetics may provide a way for encouragement needed for the more open communicational culture in health care organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. This paper continues to explore the characteristics of contemporary blogosphere, which has become one of the ways to spread historical knowledge. Blog creators have become direct participants in the formation of our country's history. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which history is presented on contemporary websites, on blogs, and the features of presenting history in contemporary school textbooks. The focus on education in the study of blogs on historical subjects is necessary and topical: historical narrative is embedded in the public space, including the Internet, which is a more attractive source of information for modern schoolchildren than books. Results. There are anonymous blogs on the Internet whose creators claim that their content is historical. The content of such resources is of course not related to public history. Narrative of public history is linked to collective memory, to history as academic discipline, and has a fundamental historical significance. In a modern history textbook linear historical narrative is fragmented into separate stories by means of a special design; an attempt has been made to create the situation of getting information in a way familiar to the individual with fragmented thinking. Direct participation of professional historians in the creation of public history, its development, including the information and telecommunication network of the Internet will reduce the threat of chaotic development of public history, will significantly improve the quality of the historical narrative in the public sphere, will make modern blogs and history textbooks mutually complementary ways of presenting history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes how the narrative features of highly shared news publications allow predicting the strength of their influence on social media communities. The Interactive potential was used as an indicator for measuring the strength of influence of news, which were classified on four levels of inner and external narrative structure. News stories published by popular Ukrainian media were taken as examples to show that the share of publications with inner narrative is low among high-influential articles, and the same holds for the share of publications that are parts of long or short media stories. In contrast, the articles, which could be embedded into the national narrative, and publications with certain issues of media agenda more often have high influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to highlight the contribution of Holocaust Education to students' moral education and character cultivation by teaching character virtue. The educational philosophy developed at Yad Vashem has brought a significant change in teaching the traumatic events of the Second World War by valuing the human. The changing perspective has led to a shift from teaching the event itself, to the personal and community narrative, full of meaning and significance. Students are encouraged to learn, understand, and empathize with the victims through 'journalist questions'. Exposing them to the moral dilemmas faced by those involved at the time contributes to both reconstructing the complex world of yesteryear and cultivating the character of the students. However, this is conditioned by personal and community values, culture and ethos, factors that influence teachers and students' attitudes towards Holocaust education, as recent research reveals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, increased number of scholars warned that academic freedom is at risk, not only due to the authoritarian tendencies of some governments but also due to globalization and an increased pressure on academic performance. Based on the most current literature, this paper brings attention to the impact of Covid-19 on academic freedom. The findings show that the pandemic placed the conversation about academic freedom into a new dimension, introducing new challenges for which academics and higher education institutions were not fully prepared. Zooming on the observed developments in teaching and researching during the pandemic, it became evident that (a) the shift to online platforms made the privacy of classroom conversations disappear and (b) the dissemination of knowledge gained through scientific work contradicting governments' narrative was restricted. Overall, this work offered an opportunity to highlight the importance of academic freedom and to recognize the urgency to monitor academic freedom globally as it becomes increasingly vulnerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scenarios are an effective tool for materializing user goals and discovering system requirements. However, system use scenarios are essentially limited to only exemplified views of real-world system use, and requirements identified through the abstraction of the scenarios often shed off necessary situational and contextual details of a user’s purposeful interaction with a system. This paper explores an alternative scenario authoring method to capture discursive system use for more prosperous requirement identification. Adopting an ecological psychology perspective, we approach system use cases as an episodic narrative system. We derive five constituents of the narrative system: system genotype, user effectivity, task closure, affordance, and situational constraint, and describe focal relations between these constituents as a generative mechanism. The episodic narrative system will advance existing requirement identification methods by including situational and contextual factors and users’ confrontations with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Remember (first volume-edition in 1924) and The Rakes of the Old Court (first Romanian serial edition in 1921, in print in 1936 and English version in 2021), Mateiu Caragiale (1885-1936) exposes a world on the verge of extinction. Drawing on his knowledge of heraldry, Caragiale presents several males who indulge in pleasure, knowledge and group-affirmation as they preserve their own principles. These rakes possess the financial means to engage in various types of experiences that others do not have access to or an appetite for. While employing the Saidian concept of "Orientalism" and that of "Balkanism" coined by the Romanian critic G. Călinescu, this paper examines the construction of a refined narrative. Scenes and portraits are typically painted in heavy, rather dark tones, with sophisticated fragrances and attire in tune with equally complex entertainment and conversational practice. What do the main protagonists think about their own identity and how do they pursue their interests? While knowledge and wealth are the key to a comfortable life, being one of a select few is vital to the key protagonists. They enjoy time spent together, as well as looking back at their roots. Visual, audio and linguistic representations, diluting or enhancing distinct temporal, spatial and personal ingredients, build on a particular universe in which introspection and companionship are the key ingredients to one's existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little is known about the direct effects of immigrant narratives on intergroup relations or on social groups not explicitly targeted. Thus, the methodological and empirical innovations of the current paper fill these gaps in three key ways. First, I add to the literature methodologically by employing a behavioral game--an underutilized tool in sociology--to provide insight into how immigrant narratives influence intergroup relations. Second, I examine the effects of immigrant narratives on social groups not explicitly mentioned in the narratives. Third, I contribute to the literature by interrogating the effects of pro- and anti-immigrant narratives. The present study pursues the following question: how do immigrant narratives effect intergroup relations? More specifically, how do immigrant narratives effect giving-behaviors among whites towards Latinos and blacks? The data in the present study come from an original experiment with nearly 1000 non-Hispanic, US-born white adults residing in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Results reveal both anti- and pro-immigrant narratives effect giving-behavior along partisan lines. The findings in this paper shed light on how narratives influence perceptions of group membership and deservingness. Thus, the implications of the findings are that political discourse about immigrants can influence social interactions, socioeconomic stratification, and the ethno-racial hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is always heated discussion among academic researches around whether electronic games are standard narrative carriers. Undeniably, electronic games have its own narrative characteristics. However, there is few studies on the narrative approaches of electronic games. Different narrative approaches would cause different feelings among players. Perhaps the in-depth study of narrative approaches can bring new inspiration for the topic. This paper has reviewed different opinions against the narratives of electronic games. In future studies, I plan to further explore how different narrative approaches could affect players and games, and how to choose the right narrative approaches for different types of games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores academics' interaction in an online forum, situated on the intranet of a South African university, where perceptions of racism within a larger discourse about transformation are shared and debated. The communicative model of democratic discourse directs the interpretation of an emancipatory discursive interaction, following a deductive textual analysis of the forum and interview texts from selected participants. The communicative model discourages normative judgements of others and focuses on an understanding of difference. The findings indicate that participants who engage in a deliberative demonstration of power, do not appreciate diverse social-historical contexts. Discursive interactions which indicate an understanding of participants' contexts are marked by a mitigating and sympathetic approach which allows for doubt in the judgements of participants. These mitigating interactions do however not persuade all participants to critically reflect on limiting opinions, attitudes and ways of interaction. An online curator who invites participants from diverse contexts might make the discourse more nuanced, create the opportunity to understand multiple realities and facilitate a transformative discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much research done in engineering education on white women and people of color's underrepresentation relies on methods which necessitate collapsing the experiences of all women together and the experiences of all people of color together in order to gain sufficiently large sample populations for statistical tests. This methodologically necessary act functions to erase the experiences of women of color for the purposes of the method, not for the purpose of better understanding the phenomenon, and runs counter to existing social science research on gender and race. With this project, we are working to develop methods that allow us to "learn from small numbers" of students, as this is what we have in the context of undergraduate engineering education. This paper builds on work introduced at ASEE 2013, where we discussed our methodological challenges with data collection and analysis. This current paper describes the analysis decisions we made in the intervening year, and offers two cases to illustrate the affordances of the proffered method to help engineering education researchers think about how the structure of engineering educational institutions -- the "ruling relations" by which we structure our undergraduate engineering programs -- function to gender and race our undergraduate engineering populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizations have been increasingly exploring storytelling as a valuable strategy to engage customers to increase their attention and retention. Social media platforms like Instagram have become essential tools for many brands to use storytelling through influencers. In this study, we explore the narratives constructed by digital influencers, as they play a crucial role in shaping their brand image and engagement with their audience. By analysing the narrative strategies used by digital influencers, we contribute to a deeper understanding of the role and impact of digital storytelling. We identify, illustrate, and discuss four narrative strategies: educating, evaluating, advising, and entertaining. Our study motivates further research to develop a detailed conceptual understanding of digital influencers and digital storytelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's globalized age, there exists the risk that individual cultures and customs could lose their importance and identity. This paper explores the notion that the traditional method of passing down knowledge from one generation to the next through story-telling could be enhanced in a more engaging ways using ubiquitous mobiles and computer technologies. This paper focuses on the importance of story-telling and narrative methods, which are also common in the Iban culture, and their relationship to a game-based intervention. Specifically, a pedagogic approach utilising a narrative-based method is employed. This method correlates the cultural content and game technology development based on the Cultural Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Cu-TPACK) framework. The content knowledge component of the framework used for promoting cultural awareness would include key elements of cultures which are symbols, rituals, heroes, values and man's relationship with a god/deity, nature and people. The pedagogical knowledge component includes methods and strategies to promote and encourage understanding and respect of the culture. With the advancement of game technology, games can be initiated for learning cultural awareness. Game-based learning (GBL) implies self-learning abilities and allows transfer of learning from other cultures. The aim of integrating GBL and cultural elements is for knowledge preservation on culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autoethnography -- involving self-reflection on personal experience, when writing up one's research interpreting those events, while making a connection to cultural meanings and perspectives in society -- is gaining relevance in academia, though this may vary according to the geography. In certain cultures, quantitative research is given precedence over qualitative research. This paper aims to contradict this and to tell qualitative stories from the perspectives of the two authors. One narrative will focus on gender [in]equality and on how the careers of women have been adversely affected by prejudices and tradition aiming to "keep women down". Is it fair to limit space for women in academia, even if with invisible barriers, and thus limit their career choices? In this instance women, and gender inequality, in Angola are focused upon. Thankfully, there has been some change over time, however career choices from that era were adversely affected. Another narrative focuses on how technology and symbolism are an important aid when abroad and when both parties do not speak a common language. In one instance, in China -- in Dalian -- one of the authors decided to side-step the pre-arranged official visit and go on a walk to find out more about the culture. Trying to have a conversation in a shopping mall and in a major international hypermarket chain proved impossible -- no-one spoke English. A pleasant surprise occurred after walking into a tea shop. Tea, as an important part of Chinese culture, was the basis of an interaction mediated by a smartphone translation app. The conversation was on tea quality -- Jasmine tea versus Green tea. The translation app was not perfect but it did operate in two ways -- in print and using audio. The salesperson and customer [author] both spoke into the smartphone and effective translations followed. Thus, over time, change is occurring in society, in very different forms. Society is evolving as technology becomes ubiquitous, and as women conquer ground which is theirs by right. Is there a connection and is technology behind both changes? Deeply held symbols also bring people closer together, in an age where tradition still has a very strong hold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on crowdfunding success that incorporates CATA (computer-aided text analysis) is quickly advancing to the big leagues (e.g., Parhankangas and Renko, 2017; Anglin et al., 2018; Moss et al., 2018) and is often theoretically based on information asymmetry, social capital, signaling or a combination thereof. Yet, current papers that explore crowdfunding success criteria fail to take advantage of the full breadth of signals available and only very few such papers examine technology projects. In this paper, we compare and contrast the strength of the entrepreneur's textual success signals to project backers within this category. Based on a random sample of 1,049 technology projects collected from Kickstarter, we evaluate textual information not only from project titles and descriptions but also from video subtitles. We find that incorporating subtitle information increases the variance explained by the respective models and therefore their predictive capability for funding success. By expanding the information landscape, our work advances the field and paves the way for more fine-grained studies of success signals in crowdfunding and therefore for an improved understanding of investor decision-making in the crowd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nine months formative education program focussing on software development for the Apple technology ecosystem offered at University of Naples Federico II (Italy) utilises the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) methodology. As a collaborative and self-guided, inquiry-based learning method, it focuses on intrinsic motivation of learners, working on real world problems organised in projects (Challenges in CBL) with an experiential and progressive approach to apply acquired knowledge in real world scenarios, ideate solution concepts and build innovative digital products. The authors applied storytelling principles and narrative theory to design the program’s educational experience for the academic year 2019/2020 as a cohesive journey within a communal learning environment with a coherent and connected structure of learning Challenges. Recently, scholars have developed digital interactive systems (e.g. Games, Interactive Storytelling) to design unscripted narratives, affectively driven by its characters, within educational contexts using emergent narrative concepts. Building on these systems, the authors present concepts to develop their approach further towards an emergent narrative experience design to manage the educational journey as it develops, rather than scripting it. This paper introduces a Narrative Experience Design Canvas to model educational experience design that encourages unscripted, emergent narratives for experiential education with the aim of fostering learners engagement, agency and creativity. Derived in part by models mainly developed for digital interactive storytelling or educational video games, it categorises the components for designing an in-person, embodied educational experience that allows the learning progression to be driven by learners as co-authors and describes mechanisms that allow unscripted narratives to emerge based on intrinsic motivation. For the future, the authors indicate action points to develop this model into an Emergent Narrative System for designing narratively driven and experiential software development education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way residents think about the place they live has consequences for the decisions they make and therefore the future condition of the environment. This paper investigates this process using the concept of a heritage narrative. Through observation and intensive interviews, I examine the response of the local govenment of Lake County, California to a severe incident of erosion during the instilation of a new vineyard. Couched in the rhetoric of rural pragmatism and resistance to bureaucracy, the government chose a non-binding commission of growers, government officials and public members to advise new growers on erosion-related issues. Critics of this policy use an alternate heritage narrative to justify their resistance to the decision. This paper uses scholarship on collective memory to argue for a wider conception of multiple heritage narratives in which the role of power can be further explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with the cultural production of the rhetoric of slavery and its impact on the collective identity of the African-American community. Through a rhetorical analysis of mainstream and African-American print media articles on the issue of slavery in Sudan from 1992 to 2002, this study advances framing research by contributing the concept of the ?trigger word? to explain the power of ideographs (McGee, 1980) such as ?slavery? to mobilize action. The analysis reveals four primary narratives: 1) slavery exists in Sudan and must be stopped; 2) slavery does not exist in Sudan; 3) slavery exists in Sudan and must be stopped, regardless of the color of the perpetrators; and 4) slavery exists in both Sudan and American and must be stopped. Based on the results of this study, this paper reaffirms the role of the media in the cultural production of trigger words to stimulate collective action. In addition, this study advances research on collective action frames by suggesting the possibility of a ?collective inaction frame? that stymies action in a collective identity based not on injustice, but comparative oppression and victimhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses trust and resilience in integrative perspective. They are looked as intangible resources for organizations. Trust and resilience are studied empirically within entrepreneurial context. The aim is to increase understanding of trust and resilience in entrepreneurial activity. The qualitative narrative and interview data is based on entrepreneurs’ stories in care business. Trust and resilience are scarcely discussed integrated and from the intellectual resource perspective. Entrepreneurship is traditionally looked from the perspective of financial capital and associated risk. Trust is largely discussed as an antecedent or outcome of behavior for collaboration capability and resilience is seen as the ability of an organization for overcoming unexpected environmental changes. However, it is still largely unknown how trust and resilience are perceived among entrepreneurs and how the two are possibly related which is our interest and question in the empirical study. The findings reveal the connection between trust and resilience showing the elements in entrepreneurial process that lead to resilience generation and a courage to trust in own competencies. Findings will be discussed in more details and implications made for entrepreneurs and managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract of the research paper "The SMEs and Their Strategic Relationship to the Region -- Case Helsinki Metropolitan Region" by Lauri Tuomi is presented.

Urban sociologists and criminologist have studied how accumulated structural disadvantages might foster so-called oppositional cultures that reinforce interpersonal violence in marginalized communities. Research has investigated how teenage girls negotiate traditional gender norms and local gendered-survival strategies in such contexts. Still, little is known about teenage girls' involvement with lethal violence and how they make sense of their actions in light of their gendered identities. This paper investigates how violent practices are reconciled with self-conceptions of femininity in narratives of criminalized teenage girls who committed or attempted homicide. Data comes from 13 biographical interviews with adolescent girls incarcerated in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Drawing from Bourdieusian theory and narrative criminology, I examine how gendered social structures shape how girls produce intelligible and morally coherent accounts of their crimes. I found that girls convey three kinds of narrative habitus with different frames for violence: violence as a gendered resource, as a gendered failure, and as a gendered dilemma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to investigate the value (co-)creation processes initiated by the users of a home-based monitoring service. We adopt a narrative approach to analyze a series of interviews to investigate these processes. Our results show three narratives - Value for the present- and the futureself, Service use and resource integrators and users as initiators, and Conditions for meaningful use - that the participants expressed. Through these narratives, the role of the user, the service and the service ecosystem (or system) is identified. The paper contributes to further understanding of the dynamics underpinning value (co-)creation processes by providing an empirically grounded investigation of value initiation practices amongst the elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the portrayal of plant pathologies in narratives, specifically creation stories, originating in Iroquoian oral traditions and their intersection with gender formations. Texts considered span contact narratives by missionaries and explorers to contemporary accounts by Native peoples themselves. Linguistic analysis of names for dis-eased plants and sources of regeneration facilitates insights into the interpretation of these texts. Analysis of names reflecting arborescent and ethnobotanical relationships facilitates reader understanding of these texts. Both the comparative method and internal reconstruction are key strategies for better apprehending differences between names across time and narrative traditions. Languages analyzed include Huron, Mohawk, and Seneca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology and informatics become part of our daily life. Conversely, the on-line therapeutic work is a reality presenting new possibilities and challenges for the professionals. Hardware and software turned more sophisticated as well as the new technological solutions to surpass communication barriers. Several studies reveal that "computerized psychology" is a poorly investigated field, which makes it a very promising study area. This paper presents a work in progress project, which consists on the development of an application that will facilitate the interaction among psychologists and patients. The application has two goals. The first one will allow to a professional in the field of psychology, to obtain a preliminary analysis of the patient's condition, even before the face-to-face appointment. A registered patient may submit narratives in which he reports his situation, and the application will subsequently treat the text and will analyze it. Then, a graphical presentation focused, fundamentally, on user's five senses indicators (hearing, smell, touch, vision and taste) will be designed. Finally, the data analysis will be presented to the assigned psychologist. The second goal is to evaluate, automatically, the patient tests. Games and other activities will be reported as prescriptions. The presented application was designed based on the opinion of the psychologists interviewed. Since the communication process will be text and the patient will be free to send it, any time, to the psychologist, it is our conviction that patients will adhere to use it. A group of patients intervene in the practice tests conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data narratives or data stories have emerged as a new form of the scholarly communication focused on data. In this paper, we explore the potential value of data narratives and the requirements for data stories to enhance scholarly communication. We examine three types of data stories that form a continuum from the less to the more structured: the DataONE data stories, the Data Curation Profiles, and the Data Descriptors from the journal Scientific Data. We take the position that these data stories will increase the value of scholarly communication if they are linked to the datasets and to the publications that describe results, and have instructional value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australian organisations advocating for asylum seekers are facing a challenging socio-political environment with limited policy support and resources, and a dominant public narrative harmful to their beneficiaries. An increasingly harsh policy regime has incited advocacy organisations to strengthen their support base, while adding to a mood of despondency within the movement. Narrative's strength in appealing to hearts and minds has made it an obvious discursive device for human advocacy; and the object of increasing interest in studies of organisational influence. However, there is significant scope for more insight into the process by which narratives are sustained and organisations achieve a solidarity of vision with their stakeholders. This paper proposes an in-depth stakeholder perspective is the missing link to wider understanding of organisational influence through narrative. This gap is addressed through an interpretive sensemaking/sensegiving approach and an embedded case study into how internal stakeholders (supporters and potential supporters) responded to a narrative campaign used by one of Australia's largest asylum seeker advocacy organisations. Findings also add insight into emerging areas of research interest including the role of nested identities and associated scripts, and situational factors (temporal stages of emotional and cognitive processing), on stakeholder responses and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the narratives of STEM career pathways of women scientists and engineers through the theoretical lens of resilience to examine their retention practices in organizations. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 42 women scientists and engineers who are currently employed in organizations. Using thematic narrative analysis, the answer to the question, how do women craft stories of resilience when negotiating STEM career pathways, was explored. The three important themes of the study were 1) crafting stories about rebounding from long term career breaks, 2) narratives of short term resiliencies in career pathways and 3) anticipation as a narrative device. The findings suggest that women in STEM careers construct their sustenance in organizations though storytelling and shared meaning making of their present and past challenging experiences with respect to their careers. In addition, some of their stories are anticipatory in nature without having gone through the event in reality. Implications for retention in organizations and policy changes are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the findings of two experiments carried out in Spain (N = 400) and the Netherlands (N = 392) testing the effects of imagined contact and similarity with a narrative protagonist on attitudes and behavioral intentions related to stigmatized immigrants. We advance a concept of an optimal reception condition: imagining a positive interaction with an immigrant before reading a personal testimonial written by an immigrant who is similar to the native audience. In both studies, participants received instructions of imagined inter-group contact (versus control instructions) before reading a first-person testimonial presenting an immigrant as similar or dissimilar. The optimal reception condition induced greater identification and narrative transportation than the reference condition, in turn leading to more positive attitudes, a higher intention of inter-group contact, and a greater desire to share the message. The findings are discussed in the context of research on narrative persuasion and prejudice reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Successful knowledge management is considered an important factor in the success of contemporary organizations. Many organizations have adopted the use of some sort of knowledge management system, such as a network or repository to promote knowledge sharing and learning, however a great deal of them are unsuccessful. This paper investigates narratives shared on digital networks of practice and how they encourage interaction and contribute to learning. Our findings show promising signs that narratives are effective tools to facilitate learning in networks of practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving them directions and sense and in the construction of the own identity. In this paper we describe some of the major representations of body emerging in gender transition paths, starting from narrative interviews with 25 people in transition (between 18 and 60 years old) in the city of Milan in Italy. The interviews have been analyzed through the method of discourse analysis, through which we have highlighted the ways of interpreting the body and changes during the different phases of gender transition. The results and the reflections developed in this work can be useful also in the clinical psychology field, because they allow contribute to the comprehension of experiences of gender variance and create operative models and tools in order to understand and help people to integrate the representations, needs and resources and to follow the person during the whole path. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The story presents us with more than just a way of organising and communicating a series of events; it offers those in the nursing profession - a profession steeped in story, a method of making sense and meaning of what they do and who they are. Every day, nurses listen to and tell stories to create coherence in a world that may otherwise be chaotic. The use of narrative offers an authentic approach to research in the discipline of nursing by connecting nurses to one another and to the greater narrative. This paper discusses the use of stories as an approach to research, by sharing one of the stories of an early career registered nurse to demonstrate the way reflecting on the story can transform perspectives and emancipate narrators and listeners from the conSnes of positivist approaches to research giving voice to those who may otherwise go unheard. This paper draws from a study investigating the experiences of early career registered nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a case study that aims at examining the effects on student learning of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by introducing storytelling in teaching/learning activities, such as stories being told to the students, and stories that the students told. After the introduction of storytelling, positive effects on student motivation were observed, as well as demonstration of higher-order learning. Narratives helped students to internalize the learning, especially when the narratives were personal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyzes the multifarious narrative techniques depicting essential aspects of the impossible reconciliation between two separate worlds represented by multiple voices: on the one hand, the strong traditional Native American thread and on the other hand, the weaker and weaker "civilized" Minneapolis' statement of the 1990s. Erdrich's contrast between the well-defined and pale utterances manages to bring into focus the tremendously rich heritage of the Native American civilization as it is presented in "The Antelope Wife". The diverse narrative structures constantly interweave, thus creating a complex vista of the contemporary American society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through narrative interviews, I have looked into the ideals and hopes for particular media activities and have found biographical narrative explanations for media consumption mixed with conventional ways of telling stories (Gergen 1997).Through these explanations I have excavated how people have reasonable and accountable justifications (Scott&Lyman 1970) for particular media activities, thus in their explanations they reveal culturally specific recipes, myths and master narratives. Through the difference 'emplotments' (Ricouer 1992) being configured in narrative interviews, people are busy reflecting on their media use as past occurrences, as interpretable acts but also on media content and media technologies as 'props' in on-going actions and anticipated future states (Schütz 1975)This paper advocates that media consumption should not purely be seen as a decoding practice or an incorporation of media technologies into a particular context, but rather that media consumption is integrated in social action and everyday life projects of actors. As such media consumption should be seen as part of the creation and satisfying of ideas and motives in the mind of actors and therefore played out in everyday performances and presentations of everyday life (Goffman 1959). Empirically this paper demonstrates how narrative interviews should be seen as one particular kind of personal presentation where people engage in a reflexive interpretation of experiences, however in telling and configuring these experiences through narrative interviews, people reveal the narrative structures of their everyday life experiences including how they tune in on specific media activities. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a theoretical framework to explain under which circumstances perceptions of "untrueness" affect engagement in filmic narratives. A mental models approach to narrative processing is used to integrate phenomenological experiences like transportation and identification. Three types of untrueness are identified: fictionality, external realism (match with external reality) and narrative realism (coherence of a story). We provide evidence that fictionality does not affect narrative processing. Violations of the 2 types of realism, on the other hand, are seen as inconsistencies among the viewer's mental structures as they experience the narrative. These inconsistencies may result in negative online evaluations of a film's trueness and cause disruptions in narrative engagement as well as lessen a narrative's persuasive power. Finally we articulate a conceptual framework for understanding the roles of fictionality and realism in engagement and disengagement while experiencing filmic narratives. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper pulls together ideas from tourism/museum studies, place studies, and nature studies to examine representations of nature and place in two neighboring parks in Northern California. This case study illuminates how divergent narratives attached to a state park and a for-profit theme park create utterly different experiences of nature for tourists, even while featuring the same nature and the same place. Using participant observation and narrative analysis, I show how contrasting representations of nature and place in these parks foster very different ideas regarding society/nature relationships. Studies of nature, place, and history have come together at times to illustrate how histories can cohere in particular landscapes, which I explore in this paper, focusing on how forests are seen as outside of history or relegated to the past, how visitors are maneuvered through the parks, and how past uses of the forest are largely divorced from contemporary local forest practices. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wedding anniversaries serve as one occasion on which marriages are made visible. This paper provides an overview of the major types of wedding anniversaries, analyzing one case study in detail. Four topics are examined: the major components of the event, the stories told about the couple, the role of audience laughter, and the socialization of a granddaughter. What holds these separate topics together is the continuing social constructionist thread: all reveal the ways people make a relationship visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beyond Texts: Layers of Meaning in the Videodiary ?A Healthy Baby Girl? Narrative scholars are venturing beyond interviews and texts as sources of data for understanding how the form and content of stories as well as how people tell stories are indications of personal, social and cultural identities. This paper interprets an autobiographical film, ?A Healthy Baby Girl? by feminist filmmaker Judith Helfand documenting her experiences of having reproductive tract cancer as a result of her prenatal exposure to DES (diethylstilbestrol). Two segments from the film are analyzed, linking visual sociology and theories of personal narrative. Both segments are about the filmmaker?s loss of her ability to conceive, grief about this loss, and her coming to terms with it. In addition, each of the segments is resonant with narrative theory in sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Cavarero's (2000) philosophical conceptualization of the narratable self, narration, both biographical and autobiographical, is a political act in its capacity to expose the fragile uniqueness of the self in its constitutive relation with others. Drawing on the notions of the narratable self and the relational character of stories, in this paper I am sketching out a genealogy of relating narratives by focusing on an early twentieth century document of life: Rosa Bonheur's auto/biography written by her lover Anna Klumpke. This rare blend of biography and autobiography brings forward in a unique way what Cavarero has defined as the desire of the narratable self to listen to her story being told by others. It further highlights the political and ethical responsibility of the listener to retell and rewrite the story disclosed to her. What I suggest is that there is an urgent need for narrative driven sociologists not only to bend over the timely necessity of listening to stories being told by others, but also to problematize their listening and dig deeper into the political and ethical effects of the stories they write and tell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]