Computer & Information Sciences

Science of Stories

Published July 2, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

Stories have the power to shape our identities and worldviews. They can be factual or fictional, text-based or visual and can take many forms—from novels and non-fiction to conspiracy theories, rumors and disinformation. This Collection includes primary research papers that propose innovative, data-driven approaches to understanding stories and their impact, on such topics as the nature of narrative and narrative thinking, methods to extract stories from datasets and datasets from stories, the role of narrative in science communication, and the transformative power of stories.

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Introducing PLOS ONE’s Science of Stories Collection | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
February 3, 2020 Yann Benetreau
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January 7, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Science of Stories
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January 7, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Science of Stories
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Mohit Iyyer

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January 7, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Science of Stories
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PLOS ONE Collection

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10.1371/journal.pone.0223833

PLOS ONE How the Avengers assemble: Ecological modelling of effective cast sizes for movies
February 26, 2020 Matthew Roughan, Lewis Mitchell, Tobin South
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10.1371/journal.pone.0231529

PLOS ONE Representation of the spatio-temporal narrative of The Tale of Li Wa 李娃传
April 23, 2020 Zhaoyi Ma, Shuaishuai Liu, Jie He
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PLOS ONE Choosing and enjoying violence in narratives
December 19, 2019 Victoria Lagrange, Benjamin Hiskes, Claire Woodward, Binyan Li, Fritz Breithaupt
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PLOS ONE The Cinderella Complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books
November 22, 2019 Huimin Xu, Zhang Zhang, Lingfei Wu, Cheng-Jun Wang
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Thomas Williams

PLOS ONE Towards story-based classification of movie scenes
February 11, 2020 Chang Liu, Armin Shmilovici, Mark Last
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PLOS ONE Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins
January 15, 2020 Federico Pianzola, Simone Rebora, Gerhard Lauer
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10.1371/journal.pone.0233879

PLOS ONE An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web
June 16, 2020 Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Behnam Shahbazi, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Vwani Roychowdhury
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PLOS ONE Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphical abstracts and published abstracts
November 19, 2019 Kate Bredbenner, Sanford M. Simon
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PLOS ONE Judgments of effort for magical violations of intuitive physics
May 23, 2019 John McCoy, Tomer Ullman
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PLOS ONE Cultural transmission in a food preparation task: The role of interactivity, innovation and storytelling
September 18, 2019 Lucas M. Bietti, Adrian Bangerter, Dominique Knutsen, Eric Mayor
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PLOS ONE Social media’s contribution to political misperceptions in U.S. Presidential elections
March 27, 2019 R. Kelly Garrett
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PLOS ONE Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communication
December 9, 2019 Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Ann Marie Reinhold, Eric D. Raile, Geoffrey C. Poole, Richard C. Ready, Clemente Izurieta, Jamie McEvoy, Nicolas T. Bergmann, Henry King
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PLOS ONE “Hey, that could be me”: The role of similarity in narrative persuasion
April 18, 2019 Joëlle Ooms, John Hoeks, Carel Jansen
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PLOS ONE The coevolution of contagion and behavior with increasing and decreasing awareness
December 3, 2019 Samira Maghool, Nahid Maleki-Jirsaraei, Marco Cremonini
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10.1371/journal.pone.0228008

PLOS ONE Interactive Guidelines: Public Communication of Data-based Research in Cities
January 31, 2020 Sergio Trilles, Carlos Granell, Auriol Degbelo, Devanjan Bhattacharya
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PLOS ONE Modeling narrative structure and dynamics with networks, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling
December 4, 2019 Semi Min, Juyong Park
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PLOS ONE Encouraging perspective taking: Using narrative writing to induce empathy for others engaging in negative health behaviors
October 15, 2019 Victoria A. Shaffer, Jennifer Bohanek, Elizabeth S. Focella, Haley Horstman, Lise Saffran
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PLOS ONE The role of narrative in collaborative reasoning and intelligence analysis: A case study
January 6, 2020 Morgan Saletta, Ariel Kruger, Tamar Primoratz, Ashley Barnett, Tim van Gelder, Robert E. Horn
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10.1371/journal.pone.0225910

PLOS ONE Structural Patterns for Transmedia Storytelling
January 31, 2020 Ryan Javanshir, Beth Carroll, David Millard
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PLOS ONE Constructing and influencing perceived authenticity in science communication: Experimenting with narrative
January 15, 2020 Lise Saffran, Amanda Hinnant, Laura D. Scherer, Susan C. Nagel, Sisi Hu
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PLOS ONE An exploration of automated narrative analysis via machine learning
October 31, 2019 Sharad Jones, Carly Fox, Sandra Gillam, Ronald B. Gillam
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PLOS ONE The impact of mental health recovery narratives on recipients experiencing mental health problems: Qualitative analysis and change model
December 13, 2019 Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Amy Ramsay, Rose McGranahan, Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley, Ada Hui, Kristian Pollock, Julie Repper, Caroline Yeo, Fiona Ng, James Roe, Steve Gillard, Graham Thornicroft, Susie Booth, Mike Slade

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PLOS ONE Call for Papers: Science of Stories

January 7, 2019 PLOS ONE Staff Editors

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