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‘Still Figuring It Out.’
Inductive Reasoning, Costly Signalling,
Social Learning, and the
Growth of Knowledge
John Hartley, AM
Curtin University (Australia) and Cardiff University (Wales)
john.a.hartley@curtin.edu.au
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‘Still Figuring It Out’
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Storytelling
is Inductive Reasoning
Eric D. Beinhocker (2006) The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of
Economics. Harvard Business School Press.
John Hartley & Kelly McWilliam (eds)(2009) Story Circle: Digital Storytelling
Around the World . Wiley-Blackwell.
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Storytelling
is Costly Signalling
“We show that honest signaling of
underlying quality by providing a
benefit to group members can be
evolutionarily stable, and may
proliferate when rare as long as high-
quality individuals are neither too
common nor too rare, and the cost of
signaling is sufficiently greater for low
than for high-quality players.”
Herbert Gintis et al. (2001) ‘Costly
Signaling and Cooperation.’ J. theor. Biol .
213, 103-119 doi:10.1006/jtbi.2001.2406
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Storytelling
is Social LearningTavi Gevinson ‘Still Figuring It Out.’
Discovery
257,483 Views
Engagement
447 Comments2,688 Likes
121 Dislikes
AudienceTop locations
United States
AustraliaCanada
Top demographics
Female, 13-17 years
Female, 25-34 years
Female, 18-24 years
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The Growth of Knowledge
Len Collard:Spirit of
Fremantle
Discovery
160 Views
Engagement
2 Comments
4 Likes
0 Dislikes
Audience
Top locations
AustraliaQatar Malaysia
Top demographics
-
Weho2:FUNNY…
Discovery
98,307 Views
Engagement
167 Comments
153 Likes
40 Dislikes
Audience
Top locations
AustraliaNew ZealandUnited Kingdom
Top demographics
Male, 13-17 yearsMale, 18-24 years
Male, 45-54 years
Psy:Gangnam Style
Dscovery
618,992,701 Views
Engagement
2,635,047 Comments
4,730,655 Likes
256,129 Dislikes
Audience
-
Top demographics
Female, 13-17 yearsMale, 13-17 years
Male, 18-24 years
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Questions
• YouTube has population-wide reach
• Psy = 619m views (in three months)
• Within it, new storytelling institutions are emerging
• TED is one.• Humour is another.
• How can community-based media, arts, and advocacyorganisations compete in this social learningenvironment?
• What can they learn from emergent online storytellinginstitutions?
• How to achieve visibility in the costly signalling game?
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Answers?
“The point is not to give girls the answers,
and not even give them permission to find
the answers themselves, but hopefully
inspire them to understand that they can
give themselves that permission; they can
ask their own questions, find their own
answers, all of that...”
Tavi Gevinson (15), ‘Still Figuring It Out.’