#generative narrative

The EU-funded project aims to classify online rumours into four types: speculation – such as whether interest rates might rise; controversy – as over the MMR vaccine; misinformation, where something untrue is spread unwittingly; and disinformation, where it’s done with malicious intent.

The Uses of Enchantement - Bruno Bettelheim new edition 1991 - Penguin Psychology

Morphology of the Folktale - Vladimir Propp 1968 - University of Texas Press

I've been working on a new prototype of TIAM, which will be on display at the ACM Multimedia conference from November 28th to December 1st in Scottsdale, Arizona. The next step will be moving from Max/msp to a browser version in the next couple of months.

"Narrative Science transforms data into high-quality editorial content. Our technology application generates news stories, industry reports, headlines and more — at scale and without human authoring or editing. Narratives can be created from almost any data set, be it numbers or text, structured or unstructured."

Janet H. Murray on the interactive narrative Digital storytelling does not signal the end of traditional narrative, argues Janet H. Murray, MIT professor, Educom Medal winner, and author of Hamlet on the Holodeck. Instead, as the following interview reveals, it marks the development of a new kind of literature that can make sense of our complex world. 

Nice podcast over at Radiolab about Artificial Intelligence. Subjects include ELIZA, Furby and Cleverbot  (found via Mike) 

Atelier Carvalho Bernau came up with a system to generate book covers for Octavo Publicaties. This write up from the New Yorker's Book Bench blog explains it all.