In this academic article, Sarah draws out the academic consequences for literary studies of the storylistening work, arguing that public criticism (criticism attending to the function of stories in order to convey their cognitive value to public reasoning) needs to be part of an ecosystem of plural methods crucial to the vitality of the discipline in the twenty-first century.
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In this LSE Impact Blog, Sarah summarises the highlights of her research into the impact of the leisure reading of artificial intelligence researchers on their scientific thought and practice. The full academic article, published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is available open access here.
Claire is interviewed by Australian journalist and publisher of Women Love Tech, Robyn Foyster, about storylistening.
In this short piece in the Journal of the British Academy, we draw out the key arguments in Storylistening of relevance to scholars in the humanities, presenting storylistening as a case study in how to include the humanities in evidence provided for public reasoning.
Sarah gave a talk and contributed to a discussion on a panel on applied science fiction at the the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference on Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. She spoke about storylistening and why science fiction matters for public reasoning about artificial intelligence.
Sarah and Claire delivered a talk at the Oxford Martin School introducing Storylistening, and answering question from the in person and online audience.
In this academic article, Sarah and co-researcher Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard present the findings of their interview study exploring the influence of leisure reading on the scientific practice of contemporary AI researchers (funded by the Royal Society). The research is mentioned in Storylistening in relation to stories and the collective identities of researchers; and one of the categories of influence explored in WAIRR is stories functioning as narrative models, connecting this work explicitly to one of the storylistening functions. For a non-academic summary of the article, see this LSE blog.
Sarah joined Sir Professor John Aston and Dame Professor Theresa Marteau for a discussion hosted by Professor Dennis Grube at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy’s annual conference on decision-making in government.
In this UNESCO Transforming the Future webinar – held online on 3rd February 2022 and chaired by UNESCO Head of Futures, Riel Miller – Sarah and Claire outline the storylistening framework and explain its direct consequences for Futures Studies (FS), inviting new reflections on the relationships between stories and scenarios, on the roles of narrative within established FS techniques, and on the relationships between FS and Science Fiction.