An Analysis of the Episodic Writing Process

Writing for an episodic series vastly differs from writing for a short film. This essay explores the major differences between writing a short film in contrast to writing an episodic series and how these differences impact the writing process. The essay examines the topic by breaking down my own experience writing an episodic series and the key findings I uncovered throughout that process. I describe my series, Scythe, and the central themes and characters that encompass the series. With a central theme of death, I describe how I worked to establish an emotional tonal balance between drama and humor within my writing. The overall goal is to break down the episodic process in order to utilize it in my own writing. I start by stating the research I conducted on writers who have successfully written an episodic series and examining their method. I analyze produced episodic series and discuss how the process is successfully utilized. Comparing my experience writing short films with my experience writing an episodic series, I describe how writing for an episodic requires a different level of preparation than writing for short film. In addition, I elaborate on the three major formats of episodic series: procedural, serialized, or hybrid. The style of the series impacts the way the story is written and alters the progression of the story. Overall, the key differences between writing an episodic series and a short film are tied to the beginning approach, the format of the piece, and the method of developing the story arc through the written work

Deep transitions: theorizing the long-term patterns of socio-technical change

The contemporary world is confronted by a double challenge: environmental degradation and social inequality. This challenge is linked to the dynamics of the First Deep Transition (Schot, 2016): the creation and expansion of a wide range of socio-technical systems in a similar direction over the past 200–250 years. Extending the theoretical framework of Schot and Kanger (2018), this paper proposes that the First Deep Transition has been built up through successive Great Surges of Development (Perez, 2002), leading to the emergence of a macro-level selection environment called industrial modernity. This has resulted in the formation of a portfolio of directionality, characterized by dominant and durable directions and occasional discontinuous shifts in addition to a continuous variety of alternatives sustained in niches or single systems. This historically-informed view on the co-evolution of single socio-technical systems, complexes of systems and industrial modernity has distinctive implications for policy-making targeted at resolving the current challenges

Deep transitions: emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality

Industrial society has not only led to high levels of wealth and welfare in the Western world, but also to increasing global ecological degradation and social inequality. The socio-technical systems that underlay contemporary societies have substantially contributed to these outcomes. This paper proposes that these socio-technical systems are an expression of a limited number of meta-rules that, for the past 250 years, have driven innovation and hence system evolution in a particular direction, thereby constituting the First Deep Transition. Meeting the cumulative social and ecological consequences of the overall direction of the First Deep Transition would require a radical change, not only in socio-technical systems but also in the meta-rules driving their evolution – the Second Deep Transition. This paper develops a new theoretical framework that aims to explain the emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality of Deep Transitions. It does so through the synthesis of two literatures that have attempted to explain large-scale and long-term socio-technical change: the Multi-level Perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transitions, and Techno-economic Paradigm (TEP) framework

Realization and Characterization of a Four-Channel Integrated Optical Young Interferometer

In this paper, we report the realization and characterization of a four-channel integrated optical Young interferometer (YI), which enables simultaneous and independent monitoring of three binding processes. The simultaneous and independent measurement of three different glucose concentrations shows the multi-purpose feature of such device. The phase resolution for different pairs of channels was /spl sim/1/spl times/10/sup -4/ fringes, which corresponds to a refractive index resolution of /spl sim/8.5/spl times/10/sup -8/ . The observed errors, which are caused due to mismatching of spatial frequencies of individual interference patterns with those determined from the CCD camera, have been reduced by using different reduction schemes. In addition, we have investigated a novel method for discrimination of the refractive index change from the thickness of a bound layer during an immunoreaction, as well as measuring the temperature change the takes place during such a process

Energy security, employment and the policy-industry interlock: explaining the role of multi-scalar socio-spatial embeddedness in industry destabilization

Existing literature on industry destabilization has relatively neglected the embeddedness of industries to their regional and national contexts. This might result in overestimating the potential for industry destabilization in specific localities. Combining the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model and the geography of transitions literature this article analyses the developments in the Estonian oil shale energy industry between 1995-2016. We show that the ties between the industry and its local context serve as an important stabilizing mechanism offsetting the destabilizing pressures as conceptualized by the DILC model. The cancelling out of two mechanisms on a local level leads to a misalignment of scales where the continued presence of global pressure of climate change is not matched by local dynamics. Hence in contrast to what the DILC model implies, there is no straightforward transmission of international pressures on local industries: instead this process is mediated through and likely heavily influenced by national and regional considerations. The findings imply that for industry destabilization and energy transitions to occur, not only the regime but also its connections to the local context need to be destabilized and transformed

The roles of users in shaping transitions to new energy systems

Current government information policies and market-based instruments aimed at influencing the energy choices of consumers often ignore the fact that consumer behaviour is not fully reducible to individuals making rational conscious decisions all the time. The decisions of consumers are largely configured by shared routines embedded in socio-technical systems. To achieve a transition towards a decarbonized and energy-efficient system, an approach that goes beyond individual consumer choice and puts shared routines and system change at its centre is needed. Here, adopting a transitions perspective, we argue that consumers should be reconceptualized as users who are important stakeholders in the innovation process shaping new routines and enacting system change. We review the role of users in shifts to new decarbonized and energy-efficient systems and provide a typology of user roles

Infoühiskonna määratlemine: kriitiline teooriaülevaade

My Master’s thesis aimed to provide reader with an overview of the theoretical field of information society. The task included a) critically reviewing the contributions of notable information society theorists; b) assessing the scale and scope of such theories; c) comparing the merits of arguments put forth pro and con information society, thus trying to create a theoretical dialogue between different strands of thought. The first part of my work concentrated on pointing to previous classifications of information society (by Frank Webster, Alistair S. Duff and Charles Steinfield & Jerry L. Salvaggio), that is describing various indicators used to denominate a society as „information society”. Presuming the notion of „information society” refers to a distinctively new type of society, I concluded that the emergence of such society would entail wide-ranging tranformation processes across numerous societal realms. Comparing the different classifications of forementioned theorists, I also concluded that „information society” seems to be a somewhat exclusionary term and the treatments of information society rarely include many important spheres, such as arts or psychology. I then moved on to present the thoughts of two most influential macro-theorists on the field of information society: Daniel Bell (his seminal „The Coming of Post-Industrial Society” (1973) and also „The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism” (1976)) and Manuel Castells (his trilogy „Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture” (1996-1998)). Setting their ideas against various criticisms, I aimed to show many contradictory or weakly argued ideas in their otherwise skilful treatments. I also pointed to some superficialites concerning a) the level of the individual; b) the historical dimension. The last theoretical chapter concentrated on creating a historical perspective to the seemingly „new” processes of contemporary. Mainly reviewing the ideas of Brian Winston, James Beniger and Paschal Preston I presented the view according to which the dynamics of „information society” can by and large be explained with an extension of historical continuities, ie the deepening of capitalist logic. Comparing the scales of reviewed theories and the arguments used to justify or repudiate our societies being „informational”, I concluded that in some conditions reasonable parts of the arguments can be viewed as complementary, for example, synchronical views describing better what is „new” in our age and diachronical views bringing out the historical roots of some of those „newnesses”. Thus there needn’t necessarily be a conflict between different schools of thought.http://tartu.ester.ee/record=b2119826~S1*es