title: Analyzing the public discourse on works of fiction - Detection and visualization of emotion in online coverage about HBO's Game of Thrones.
abstract: This paper presents a Web intelligence portal that captures and aggregates news and social media coverage about "Game of Thrones", an American drama television series created for the HBO television network based on George R.R. Martin's series of fantasy novels. The system collects content from the Web sites of Anglo-American news media as well as from four social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube. An interactive dashboard with trend charts and synchronized visual analytics components not only shows how often Game of Thrones events and characters are being mentioned by journalists and viewers, but also provides a real-time account of concepts that are being associated with the unfolding storyline and each new episode. Positive or negative sentiment is computed automatically, which sheds light on the perception of actors and new plot elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria; WebLyzard Technology, Puechlgasse 2/44, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Arno
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scharl
authors.affiliation: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria; WebLyzard Technology, Puechlgasse 2/44, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hubmann-Haidvogel
authors.affiliation: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Alistair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fischl
authors.affiliation: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Ruslan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kamolov
authors.affiliation: WebLyzard Technology, Puechlgasse 2/44, 1190 Vienna, Austria; University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, Faculty of Information Sciences, Pulvermuehlestrasse 57, CH-7004, Chur, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weichselbraun
authors.affiliation: WebLyzard Technology, Puechlgasse 2/44, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rafelsberger
keywords: Game of Thrones; Interactive dashboard; Knowledge extraction; Television series; Visual analytics; Web intelligence