Useful for Data Mining and Social Network Stalking: "The Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling"

[Razer]

I alway check new twitter followers for bots and data mining. Especially
if they don't seem to be 'my type'. This turned up from a follow who was
sweeping for the word "market" and found it here:
<https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/773205524460417024> as a
tweet of a Le Monde Diplomatique link regarding the topic "If they're
going to take your data to market at you you should be getting paid for it"


MIT Technology Review:

Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to
identify the building blocks of all stories.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv July 6, 2016

Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his
theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several
examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of
stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful
shapes.” The video is available on YouTube.

Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have
explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these
arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited
to storytelling than others.

Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture. These include the
simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and
the more complex one of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.”

Vonnegut is not alone in attempting to categorize stories into types,
although he was probably the first to do it in graphical form. Aristotle
was at it over 2,000 years before him, and many others have followed in
his footsteps.

However, there is little agreement on the number of different emotional
arcs that arise in stories or their shape. Estimates vary from three
basic patterns to more than 30. But there is little in the way of
scientific evidence to favor one number over another.

Today (ed. Here in the future... -Rr), that changes thanks to the work
of Andrew Reagan at the Computational Story Lab at the University of
Vermont in Burlington and a few pals. These guys have used sentiment
analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used
data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of
six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex
narratives,” they say.

MOre:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic-emotional-arcs-of-storytelling/

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