What was remarkable about 2004 was the way the media embraced Bush's frame for the election, his narrative assumptions, even when they didn't really like him.
However, it is the very task of an uncertainty assessment to transform information of various kinds (quantitative, qualitative, narrative, implicit assumptions, etc).
One problem with that kind of narrative is the assumption that it rests on, that there is more conspiracy belief today than there was in the pre-internet age.
Texts in political economy discourse challenged the 'efficiency narrative' (ie, the assumption that technology, however expensive, will increase efficiency and hence bring return on investment and progressive cost-savings) put forward by techno-economic regimes.
Bell and Grant are just two of the artists who flit through Harris's narrative, undermining easy assumptions about modernist rejections of history and tradition in the process.
For the narrative task, the assumptions were first checked.
We argue that it is important, however, that preventative strategies are underpinned not by sensationalised narrative and untested assumptions but by sober and robust assessments of appropriate empirical data.
We have also allowed double-loop learning [ 21], deepening understanding of experience through reflection during our work and in developing this paper – stepping back from the initial narrative, interrogating our assumptions, and viewing it from different perspectives.
Withered and shrunken, they had taken on the greyish colour of mud…" Rothfield argues that medicine provided novelists with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions and models of professional authority, and early medical realist novels in particular tended to portray illness as "either a fundamental ontological predicament or a punctual sign of innate moral inadequacy" [ 18].
The conclusions I jumped to while playing were revealed for what they were as the story unfolded: assumptions based on previous games, inferior narratives and low expectations.
