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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for “Measuring Narrative and Literature” on 
 November 9\, 12–1pm Eastern\, 9–10am Pacific\, 5–6pm Greenwich Mean 
 Time. This exciting virtual event will bring together two projects working
  on cutting-edge research into narrative\, literature\, and culture: the B
 ookNet project and Contemporary Literature’s Vexed Democratization. \n\n
  \n\nFollowing the talks\, there will be time for questions and discussion
  among the presenters and attendees. We hope to see you there!\n\n \n\nThi
 s event is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. RSV
 P here.\n\n \n\nContemporary Literature’s Vexed Democratization: Juliana
  Spahr (Professor\, Mills College) and Stephanie Young (Adjunct Professor\
 , Mills College) will speak about the Contemporary Literature’s Vexed De
 mocratization project\, which explores the literature and writers that can
  be found in literary circles and how they came to be prestigious. Using a
  range of approaches including data collection\, computational analysis\, 
 archival research\, and close reading\, investigators explore the insular 
 nature of contemporary literary production. Much of this work examines the
  contradictions that define contemporary literature. On the one hand\, tec
 hnological changes in literary production and distribution have resulted i
 n a dramatic increase in the number of works published each year. At the s
 ame time\, the path to becoming a writer has become more difficult\, and m
 ore exclusionary than in the past. This work began with a dataset of winne
 rs and judges of major literary prizes from 1919-2020 (recently published 
 at post45) From this data\, investigators published a series of articles e
 xploring contradictions within literary prestige: “Who Gets to Be a Writ
 er?”\,  “On Poets and Prizes”\, and “Literature’s Vexed Democrat
 ization”. Currently\, investigators are working to expand the dataset so
  as to explore the relationship between literary prestige (as established 
 by these various literary prizes) and marketplace sales. They are also in 
 process on a study of prize judges and a detailed social network analysis 
 of the dataset.\n\n \n\nBookNet: Yakov Bart (Associate Professor\, Marketi
 ng\, D'Amore McKim School of Business) and Samsun Knight (Assistant Profes
 sor of Marketing\, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management\; Res
 earch Affiliate of Northeastern's DATA Initiative) will share insights fro
 m the BookNet project\, which seeks to fill a gap in quantitative narrativ
 e research by developing and introducing a new method for constructing “
 narrative experience” outcomes data. In this project\, Knight and Bart a
 re developing a new\, standardized survey that can be administered at scal
 e to create common experience-related metrics that one can use to compare 
 movies across an unprecedentedly rich array of dimensions. The team is des
 igning and testing a survey on how narratives are experienced (“How fast
 -paced was the middle of the story?”\; “How closely did you identify w
 ith the main character?”\; “Did the world of the story feel real?”) 
 using movies. The goal of the project is to groundbreaking new research on
  narratives along two new dimensions. First\, the existence of common metr
 ics across stories will allow for innovative new descriptive and historica
 l analysis of how stories have changed over time\, how viewers’ preferen
 ces differ across geographies\, and how companies and institutions might b
 etter tailor their narrative approaches to communicate better\, or to eval
 uate stories better. Second\, the team plans to leverage these data to bui
 ld and validate new\, innovative approaches to quantifying narrative attri
 butes and measuring narrative speed\, cohesion and flow. Further work on t
 his project is continuing under the Impact Engine program.\n\nThis event i
 s free and open to the public\, but registration is required. RSVP here.\n
 \nWe hope that you will join us!
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SUMMARY:DH Office Hours: Measuring Narrative and Literature
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