# Francesca Polletta

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How Characters and Storytelling Drive Social Change

Professor Francesca Polletta researches the role of storytelling in social movements. She says stories can do three things: get us to care about an issue, create or jump-start a movement, and tell new stories about issues in fundamentally different ways. Social movements’ most important impacts are…

Episode 11: Bullshit Jobs

This week, we read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, a book that dissects the social, historical, and cultural theories implicit in our acceptance of the bullshitization of labor! Truly one of the most elegant and accessible approaches to this topic out there. Thanks to our honored guest and friend L…

Francesca Polletta on Coding Stories and Studying Online Forums

In this episode we speak to Francesca Polletta. Francesca is a professor of sociology at the University of California Irvine. She is the author of It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics and Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements. Francesca has also …

Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?

As part of the sociology department's Distinguished Visiting Scholars Series, Francesca Polletta discusses storytelling when used as a political campaign tool, including its use in the United States' 2004 presidential elections. Polletta is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University…

The Storytelling Craze

When did everyone become a storyteller? Decades after George Lucas and Steve Jobs made storytelling a big business, every company now wants to tell “Our Story.” Instagram and TikTok let everyone else tell their “stories,” and the number of people calling themselves storytellers on LinkedIn is now m…

Decoder Ring - The Storytelling Craze

When did everyone become a storyteller? Decades after George Lucas and Steve Jobs made storytelling a big business, every company now wants to tell “Our Story.” Instagram and TikTok let everyone else tell their “stories,” and the number of people calling themselves storytellers on LinkedIn is now m…

Decoder Ring - The Storytelling Craze

When did everyone become a storyteller? Decades after George Lucas and Steve Jobs made storytelling a big business, every company now wants to tell “Our Story.” Instagram and TikTok let everyone else tell their “stories,” and the number of people calling themselves storytellers on LinkedIn is now m…

Episode 25: Two of Wands

C’mon and let me know… Should I stay or should I go? The Two of Wands. For the visionaries, for the world changers. But maybe also for those who are content where they are.  Things to learn more about from today’s episode: Francesca Polletta: It was Like a Fever Verta Taylor: Social Movement C…