Browsing by Subject "Gossip"

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Can episodic memory deter cheating and promote altruism?
(Springer, 2024-04-18) Keven, Nazım
Episodic memory gives us the ability to mentally travel back in time to revisit and relive past experiences. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the function of episodic memory. According to the orthodox view, episodic memory should be considered a part of a constructive system that simulates the future for sophisticated foresight and flexible planning. In this paper, I offer a novel alternative view. I argue that episodic memory provides invaluable information about the past behavior of others, allowing us to identify reliable and trustworthy partners while avoiding dealing with cheaters. Theoretical models demonstrate that cooperation in groups can be maintained if potential partners use information about an individual’s past behavior to guide their behavior toward that individual. In these reputation-based models of human cooperation, individuals with a history of cheating are ostracized, whereas those with a history of cooperative behavior flourish. Against this theoretical background, it is possible to see a function of episodic memory in facilitating information exchange about others, helping group members make effective partner choices, and avoiding the risk of interacting with cheaters. If correct, episodic memory may have played a significant role in the evolution of human cooperation.
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The forums of internet sites as places to exchange gossip
(2007) Kocabay, Hatice
In Turkey, from the 1990s onwards as the internet use has become more and more widespread, people have gained the opportunity of putting the things they know into writing and share them with others on the internet thanks to the convenience provided by new technologies. With the opening of the forums, information sharing on a wide range of subjects has increased. Even if the purposes on the establishment of the forums (politics, sport, health, art, literature etc.) and their target audiences (women, men, football fans, students, clerks etc.) differ from one another, it is an undeniable fact that the forums opened by various internet sites increase the speed of information sharing. At the present day, due to their speed quality, forums also function as places to exchange gossip. Cyber media which enables its users to access thousands of people is also preferred to exchange gossip due to the fact that it increases the speed of gossip circulation. Members of the internet sites write their views by using a user's name, i.e. a nickname, so nobody has to explain anything to anyone and nobody is responsible for what s/he writes on. This also helps gossip to spread rapidly amongst people on cyber media. Throughout this study, the role of the forums of various internet sites, basically estabhshed as "the platforms of information sharing", in the transmission of the gossip as verbal culture and reproduction and the circulation speed of it will be analyzed.
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Kentte mitsel korku: “fısıltı” depremleri
(Geleneksel Yayıncılık, 2007) Sheridan, R. A. A.
Bu yazıda, dedikodu olgusu halkbilimi açısından ele alınacak ve 1999 Marmara Depremi’nden sonra Türkiye’de yaygın biçimde gündeme gelen “fısıltı depremi” olgusu üzerine yoğunlaşılarak, depremin, dedikodu kaynağı olarak çağdaş kent bağlamında taşıdığı önem ve bu konuda halk tarafından ileri teknoloji ortamında oluşturulan ve aktarılan anlatıların işlevinin yanı sıra sergiledikleri mitsel boyut da incelenip değerlendirilecektir.