AMC events

Storytelling, part 2: Theory to Practice, the Hard and Inconvenient Bit

Speaker: Joris J. van Zundert (KNAW). Wednesday 19 November, 15.30-17.30, Spiegelzaal, GG80-82.

Storytelling is the art and science of conveying information and/or knowledge through structured narrative that engages emotions and makes content persuasive. Ideally, we know accurately what effect particular story telling techniques have on an audience. Although there is a a great deal of theory on narrative structure, exposition, tone, pace, literary vocabulary, and so forth, it is also true that much of the effect is still the “dark matter” of storytelling research. In this presentation I explain some computational techniques that we at the Huygens Institute are currently applying, hoping to grasp more of these elusive storytelling effects. The narrative is mid arc however, and things are looking ominous for the heroes of our story…