Fan-Fiction and AO3 Free-Form Tagging Practice: Innovating Open-Source Tools for Tag Network Visualization and Analysis

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dc.contributor.advisorBaljko, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorBestard Lorigados, Elias
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T16:39:09Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T16:39:09Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-30
dc.date.issued2022-12-14
dc.date.updated2022-12-14T16:39:08Z
dc.degree.disciplineComputer Science
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractThe thesis focuses on obtaining, representing, analyzing, and visualizing tag data within the Archive of Our Own (AO3) fan fiction archive, with a focus on the ``Additional Tags" category. The work was undertaken in four components. First, network nomenclature was defined and formally-defined network representations were developed for the AO3 Additional Tag structure. Second, computational techniques were developed to scrape the data from AO3, both in its current state and in its archival state (from the Wayback Machine) and to store it in a format suitable for subsequent processing. Third, techniques were developed to use the scraped data in order to computationally instantiate and visualize the network structures that were developed in the first component. Finally, in the fourth component, a set of network analysis techniques were developed, which were used to extract quantitative characteristics of the networks, to identify relevant changes over time, and to identify co-creation actions between different users in the AO3 community.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/40750
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectComputer science
dc.subject.keywordsData analysis
dc.subject.keywordsData science
dc.subject.keywordsNetwork analysis
dc.subject.keywordsTagging practices
dc.subject.keywordsAO3
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-Computer-Interaction
dc.subject.keywordsTag wrangling
dc.subject.keywordsData visualization
dc.subject.keywordsSoftware engineering
dc.subject.keywordsTagging structures
dc.subject.keywordsArchive of Our Own
dc.titleFan-Fiction and AO3 Free-Form Tagging Practice: Innovating Open-Source Tools for Tag Network Visualization and Analysis
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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