Examining the Transformation from Original to Fan Fiction via Text Mining: A Case Study for Supernatural
Hintergrund
Fan fictions are an important part of today's reading culture and have gained more and more interest as data material in the Natural Language Processing community. However, fan fictions themselves have become objects of research in various research areas in the humanities like gender studies, fan studies, literary studies and internet studies. Furthermore, various projects in Digital Humanities explore fan fictions via computational text analysis. One interesting point is the question on how the fan community transforms the original work when creating fan fictions.
Zielsetzung der Arbeit
In this thesis, we want to investigate the transformation process between original and fan created fan fictions via methods of computational text analysis on large-scale corpora. As case study for the analysis, we select the popular tv show „Supernatural“ which is among the most popular and famous material for fan fictions. To investigate differences between original and fan fictions we look at the following variables:
* character mentions and character networks
* sentiment and emotion expression
* frequencies of various word types like gender specific words
* other metrics of intertextuality
Konkrete Aufgaben
Investigating the related work for this topic
Formulation of research question and task agenda
Acquisition and preparation of an adequately sized corpus of fan fictions
Acquisition and preparation of a corpus of Supernatural scripts
Analysis of the corpora via text mining methods to investigate differences between the material
Erwartete Vorkenntnisse
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