- Next up is Chico Camargo to discuss his work on "The Narrative Navigator: A Tool for Visualising Culture War Narratives in Shortform Video Content." He covers some background theory about levels (micro, meso, macro) of narratives, and different types of narrative strategies. #COMPTEXT2025
- Operationalizing narratives requires detecting narrative elements (entities, characters, plot, relationships). Images can reinforce textual content and are important parts of the narrative in the text. They focus on short videos but the pipeline should work for texts and images. #COMPTEXT2025
- Input: 1 million Tiktok videos Text analysis of Whisper transcripts: topics, entities, events, framing Image analysis of automatically segmented scenes: face and object recognition #COMPTEXT2025
- At the end is an visual, interactive tool with the various extracted information and summaries. Should allow qualitative researchers to examine dominant characters, main (hero, villain) nodes in the network, connections between events, timelines. Goal is to bring in theory. #COMPTEXT2025
- Current challenges: 1. Speaker diarisation (multiple viewpoints are hard) 2. Scene detection (thresholds are hard, data dependent) 3. Community detection is static #COMPTEXT2025Apr 26, 2025 09:47
- He closes with an example of a meme (image and text). In the "old days" we would reduce this to a sentiment score. Now we can extract rich qualitative descriptions using LLMs. Exciting! #COMPTEXT2025
