Transmedia narratives and binging experiences: Ricardo Piglia’s Los casos del comisario Croce as a theoretical project

From a narratological perspective the paper argues that Ricardo Piglia’s posthumous book Los casos del comisario Croce offers readers a theoretical project on transmedia narratives and storytelling. The reading of Los casos del comisario Croce as a transmedial narrative centers in two aspects: 1) Piglia’s use of a text written by Marx on productivity and the professions as threshold for his transmedial narration; 2) binging engagement from the transmedial logic used for characterizations and the transmedial whodunit structure logic.

On Nigerian queer rights advocacy and “saying it”

Homosexuality is still generally considered un-African, unacceptable and criminal in most African states. In Nigeria, this translates into incidents of criminalisation, violence and other forms of human rights violation targeted at sexual minorities. The agitation towards sexual minorities in Nigeria is as much an attitudinal as it is a legal problem, and the factors that feed negative attitudes towards homosexuals equally enable practices such as gender-based violence. This article engages with the advocacy being done to address the human rights of sexual minorities in Nigeria, seeking to make a case for indigenisation and for engaging with the use of narratives and storytelling as a tool to complement the ongoing work. This article also seeks to make a case for engaging with the principle of the inseparability of the struggle to advance the rights of sexual minorities in Nigeria.

How to Program Positive Medical Device User Experience Using Narratives, Storytelling and Priming

This study investigates how narratives and storytelling in relation to the delivery of a medical device to a patient influence the psychological effect of the device on the patient. The effect was investigated in a pilot study designed as a randomized control experiment in which an experimental group was exposed to positive narratives and storytelling in delivery of cosmetic breast enhancing surgery. The control group went through the same surgical procedures but without hearing these positive stories. Results show that the experimental group reported significantly more positive user experiences than the patients who were not exposed to the stories. It is concluded that narratives and storytelling enhance a positive psychological outcome and that more research in this area could help design the delivery of medical devices to patients.