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Alex Georgakopoulou Stefan Iversen Carsten Stage
Quantified Storytelling
Alex Georgakopoulou • Stefan Iversen Carsten Stage
Quantified Storytelling A Narrative Analysis of Metrics on Social Media
Alex Georgakopoulou School of Education, Communication & Society King’s College London London, UK
Stefan Iversen School of Communication and Culture Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
Carsten Stage School of Communication and Culture Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
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Acknowledgements
A panel on ‘Narrative and Metrics on Social Media’, which we co- organized as part of the Narrative Matters conference, 2018, The Netherlands, served as the first step towards putting on the map of narrative studies this under-represented area and towards beginning to engage in productive conversations with colleagues and students. We are grateful to all those—too many to mention by name—who indulged us in the Narrative Matters conference and numerous workshops since then. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on the book’s proposal with the usual proviso that all remaining errors are ours, and to our Commissioning Editor Cathy Scott for believing in this project. Finally, our thanks go to Dr Anda Drasovean for help with the final editing stages of the book.
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Contents
1 Analysing Quantified Stories on Social Media 1 1.1 Narrating Numbers 1 1.2 Social Media, Metrics and
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