Analyzing the public discourse on works of fiction – Detection and visualization of emotion in online coverage about HBO’s Game of Thrones

•“Westeros Sentinel” – a visual analytics dashboard for Game of Thrones.•Extraction of affective and factual knowledge from news and social media coverage.•Emotional categories from semantic knowledge bases.•Automated annotation services for contextualized information spaces.•Interactive visualizati...

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Published in:Information processing & management 2016-01, Vol.52 (1), p.129-138
Main Authors: Scharl, Arno, Hubmann-Haidvogel, Alexander, Jones, Alistair, Fischl, Daniel, Kamolov, Ruslan, Weichselbraun, Albert, Rafelsberger, Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytics
Computer & video games
Digital media
Emotions
Game of Thrones
Interactive dashboard
Knowledge extraction
Media coverage
News media
Novels
Social networks
Studies
Television programs
Television series
Visual analytics
Visualization
Web intelligence
Web portals
Webs
Websites
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Summary:•“Westeros Sentinel” – a visual analytics dashboard for Game of Thrones.•Extraction of affective and factual knowledge from news and social media coverage.•Emotional categories from semantic knowledge bases.•Automated annotation services for contextualized information spaces.•Interactive visualizations to explore context features. This paper presents a Web intelligence portal that captures and aggregates news and social media coverage about “Game of Thrones”, an American drama television series created for the HBO television network based on George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels. The system collects content from the Web sites of Anglo-American news media as well as from four social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube. An interactive dashboard with trend charts and synchronized visual analytics components not only shows how often Game of Thrones events and characters are being mentioned by journalists and viewers, but also provides a real-time account of concepts that are being associated with the unfolding storyline and each new episode. Positive or negative sentiment is computed automatically, which sheds light on the perception of actors and new plot elements.
ISSN:0306-4573
1873-5371
DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2015.02.003