This article presents a cross-cultural perspective on different formats of audience engagement re... more This article presents a cross-cultural perspective on different formats of audience engagement relating to the movie Barbie (Barbie, 2023). Traditional audience engagement theories considered audiences as passive receivers. However, by using a feminist media framework, this article argues that the form of audience engagement we observed from the movie Barbie is both active, self-empowering, and cross-cultural. Taking the phenomenon of dressing up in pink to see Barbie in the United States, the author uses social media behavior from the Chinese feminist community to present an alternative engagement expression given different cultural, social, and political contexts. This article will lay out the context of the Chinese film market for the movie Barbie and how Chinese female audiences utilized their voices on social media to support and stay engaged with the movie. As a post-feminist movie, Barbie evoked elaborate participation and discussion among the Chinese feminist community despite being a culturally distant foreign movie. This self-sustaining social media engagement from the movie Barbie is another concrete example of feminist community building in China. This article highlights the shared psychological states that Barbie has evoked across cultures and how it manifested itself through visual and verbal expressions.
People often use imagination to simulate an immediate outcome, like imaging making a turn at a cr... more People often use imagination to simulate an immediate outcome, like imaging making a turn at a crossroads when driving. However, in planning, one needs to generate sequences of outcomes to achieve a long-term goal. This makes mental simulation hard in planning because imaging multiple sequences of actions are computationally challenging. In this study, we investigated the process of mental simulation in spatial planning in a Number Estimation task. We asked participants to estimate the number of cities they can connect by following a specified order using three different levels of a budget length. We found that the participant’s estimation was less accurate with a longer budget length. This result suggested that simulating a longer sequence of actions was more challenging, so can we alleviate the burden of mental simulation in spatial planning? In a Road Construction task, we asked participants to connect as many cities as possible on a map under two conditions: 1) a condition where they only make one set plan, 2) a condition where they had the chance to re-plan using an undo button. The undo button aided mental simulation in visualizing alternative outcomes. Our pilot results showed that participants connected more cities with undo, and it took them longer to make their first choice without undo. This study may help in understanding the benefit of mental simulation in spatial planning and navigation behaviors.
A short analysis on Bacon’s scientific approach on identifying the idols of the mind and Descarte... more A short analysis on Bacon’s scientific approach on identifying the idols of the mind and Descartes’ skepticism.
This article presents a cross-cultural perspective on different formats of audience engagement re... more This article presents a cross-cultural perspective on different formats of audience engagement relating to the movie Barbie (Barbie, 2023). Traditional audience engagement theories considered audiences as passive receivers. However, by using a feminist media framework, this article argues that the form of audience engagement we observed from the movie Barbie is both active, self-empowering, and cross-cultural. Taking the phenomenon of dressing up in pink to see Barbie in the United States, the author uses social media behavior from the Chinese feminist community to present an alternative engagement expression given different cultural, social, and political contexts. This article will lay out the context of the Chinese film market for the movie Barbie and how Chinese female audiences utilized their voices on social media to support and stay engaged with the movie. As a post-feminist movie, Barbie evoked elaborate participation and discussion among the Chinese feminist community despite being a culturally distant foreign movie. This self-sustaining social media engagement from the movie Barbie is another concrete example of feminist community building in China. This article highlights the shared psychological states that Barbie has evoked across cultures and how it manifested itself through visual and verbal expressions.
People often use imagination to simulate an immediate outcome, like imaging making a turn at a cr... more People often use imagination to simulate an immediate outcome, like imaging making a turn at a crossroads when driving. However, in planning, one needs to generate sequences of outcomes to achieve a long-term goal. This makes mental simulation hard in planning because imaging multiple sequences of actions are computationally challenging. In this study, we investigated the process of mental simulation in spatial planning in a Number Estimation task. We asked participants to estimate the number of cities they can connect by following a specified order using three different levels of a budget length. We found that the participant’s estimation was less accurate with a longer budget length. This result suggested that simulating a longer sequence of actions was more challenging, so can we alleviate the burden of mental simulation in spatial planning? In a Road Construction task, we asked participants to connect as many cities as possible on a map under two conditions: 1) a condition where they only make one set plan, 2) a condition where they had the chance to re-plan using an undo button. The undo button aided mental simulation in visualizing alternative outcomes. Our pilot results showed that participants connected more cities with undo, and it took them longer to make their first choice without undo. This study may help in understanding the benefit of mental simulation in spatial planning and navigation behaviors.
A short analysis on Bacon’s scientific approach on identifying the idols of the mind and Descarte... more A short analysis on Bacon’s scientific approach on identifying the idols of the mind and Descartes’ skepticism.
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