Noah Amir Arjomand
Biographic Data
| ID | 5704203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Amir Arjomand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Arjomand |
| SIGNATURE | ARJOMAND N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2239-021X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empirical Fiction
This paper discusses methods for using narratives of composite characters in qualitative social scientific writing. When anonymization is required, authors can use composite narratives to better protect participants, to compress data into intelligible sequences, and to avoid problematic claims to scientific authority. However, to date, authors of composite texts have failed to adequately explain how they deal with problems of sampling, selection,…
Fixing Stories
Awareness systems or echo chambers? Latin American journalists’ usage of Twitter as a news gathering tool
Twitter holds the potential to help journalists — especially at independent news organizations in the Global South with limited resources — to diversify their news gathering beyond reliance on traditional gatekeepers. However, both Twitter’s design and journalists’ news gathering routines may be reinforcing, rather than breaking, media echo chambers. This study gauges how journalists in developing countries are using Twitter and whether new tools…
Every Turk Is Born a Soldier
This essay follows a young barber named Mehmet as he joins the Turkish military in the wake of the country's July 15, 2016, coup attempt. Mehmet's preconscription rituals are used as an synecdochic entry point for a discussion of masculine dignity and control over public space as key dimensions of postcoup Turkish politics. The rituals that Mehmet plays out the night before basic training mirror the larger-scale symbolic and physical advance of P…
The Struggle for Kabul's Libraries
In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term, competition for resources and skilled labor between state and nongovernmental organizations, and a cultural conception of information as a resource to be privately …
Empirical Fiction
This paper discusses methods for using narratives of composite characters in qualitative social scientific writing. When anonymization is required, authors can use composite narratives to better protect participants, to compress data into intelligible sequences, and to avoid problematic claims to scientific authority. However, to date, authors of composite texts have failed to adequately explain how they deal with problems of sampling, selection,…
Every Turk Is Born a Soldier
This essay follows a young barber named Mehmet as he joins the Turkish military in the wake of the country's July 15, 2016, coup attempt. Mehmet's preconscription rituals are used as an synecdochic entry point for a discussion of masculine dignity and control over public space as key dimensions of postcoup Turkish politics. The rituals that Mehmet plays out the night before basic training mirror the larger-scale symbolic and physical advance of P…
The Struggle for Kabul's Libraries
In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term, competition for resources and skilled labor between state and nongovernmental organizations, and a cultural conception of information as a resource to be privately …
Every Turk Is Born a Soldier
This essay follows a young barber named Mehmet as he joins the Turkish military in the wake of the country's July 15, 2016, coup attempt. Mehmet's preconscription rituals are used as an synecdochic entry point for a discussion of masculine dignity and control over public space as key dimensions of postcoup Turkish politics. The rituals that Mehmet plays out the night before basic training mirror the larger-scale symbolic and physical advance of P…
Fixing Stories
Awareness systems or echo chambers? Latin American journalists’ usage of Twitter as a news gathering tool
Twitter holds the potential to help journalists — especially at independent news organizations in the Global South with limited resources — to diversify their news gathering beyond reliance on traditional gatekeepers. However, both Twitter’s design and journalists’ news gathering routines may be reinforcing, rather than breaking, media echo chambers. This study gauges how journalists in developing countries are using Twitter and whether new tools…
Empirical Fiction
This paper discusses methods for using narratives of composite characters in qualitative social scientific writing. When anonymization is required, authors can use composite narratives to better protect participants, to compress data into intelligible sequences, and to avoid problematic claims to scientific authority. However, to date, authors of composite texts have failed to adequately explain how they deal with problems of sampling, selection,…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)