23 papers
Archetypometrics of 'Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Storytelling inherently revolves around characters. Using the television sitcom `Friends' as a case study, we investigate how well archetype vectors capture both individual charact…
Stop using Media Bias/Fact Check in research
Alejandro Javier Ruiz Iglesias, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Ashley M. A. Fehr +2
The paper critiques the Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFB) dataset, showing it lacks scientific rigor and arguing that researchers should stop using it for misinformation studies.
The queer Hero versus the Fool bias of the queer trait: An archetypometric analysis of the collective portrayal of queerness in fictional stories
Ashley M. A. Fehr, Calla Glavin Beauregard, Julia Witte Zimmerman +4
Visibility in media is pivotal for identity development and for broadening societal views of gender and sexuality. Queer representation has increased in recent years, yet damaging…
Buffy versus Bella: An archetypometric analysis and comparison
Calla Glavin Beauregard, Julia Witte Zimmerman, Ashley M. A. Fehr +6
Fictional stories and characters embody and encode social norms, and their study is a powerful tool through which to understand culture and society. Vampire stories and folklore, i…
Narrative Structure in Tropes: A Computational Analysis of `Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Tropes are recurring narrative devices in television and film. We carry out a computational analysis of tropes in the sitcom Friends, using human-curated trope annotations from TVT…
Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework instead of valence-arousal-dominance
P. S. Dodds, T. Alshaabi, M. I. Fudolig +7
From work emerging through the middle of the 20th century, the essence of meaning has become widely accepted as being described by the three orthogonal dimensions of valence, arous…