Russell Conjugation Illuminator

Goals

• How do we make the concepts in this paper more accessible to people? https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181
• What shape would a tool take to accomplish this?
• What value can we create with this tool?
• How do we turn it into a system/ecosystem/community/entity/mvp that sustainably provides value?
• What's a catchy name for this project?

Project Name Candidates

• decolouring book/ page(s)
• desaturating glass
• decolourer/ desaturator
• bullshit detector

Resources

• Bertrand Russel Video
• List of Russel Conjugations, Add More Here
• Unbiased Jesus Reporting
• Twitter Thread listing adjectives and some details
• Emotive Conjugation and Russel Conjugation Dictionary
• Weasel Words
• Corporate Weasel Words
• Weasel Words
• Weasel Words
• Loaded Language
• Quora Loaded Language
• Lackoff Framing
• George Carlin on Euphemisms

Previous Attempts

• Russell conjugative Github Project

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Project Meeting Notes

03/05/2020, working document

Problem definition

The problem with emotional conjugation is that the reader is being made to feel a certain way an thing/idea/topic/concept without realizing that they are being manipulated.

Stakeholders

The project group acts as stakeholders for this project.

Emotive Conjugations Product MVP

MVP-1

• 10 articles mockup  
• List of conjugations + browser plugin that already exists for highlighting

MVP-2

• Crowdsourcing data - people highlight and submit conjugations to tool database
  • Positive emotions
  • Negative emotions
• Detection on each page
• Actions: 
  • Highlight
  • List and count of each 
• Method: Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script to start

Persona Focus

(For build and marketing purposes)

• Language: English
• Domain: News
• Format: Text
• Country: USA (because country specific phrases and lingo) with appropriate comms
• User: Readers
• Browser: Firefox or Chrome
• Hardware: PC / Laptop
• Age: 18-60 (guess)

Emotive Conjugations Product potential

• Actions: 
  • Data inverted - Emotional Gradient slider as well
  • Adblock type thing - Can have always on or manual options
• Block of content specific database
• Publicly viewable database of emotive conjugations on different websites with histogram
• Natural Language Processing - “Becky was standing on the side of the road. Then that cow crossed the road.” 
• Videos: youtube to start
• Users can suggest alternative terms or phrases for the word or phrase they highlighted
• User puts in their political position to give more data

Persona Focus

(For subsequent releases and further marketing purposes)

• Language: English+
• Domain: News
• Format: Text and Video
• Country: USA (USA+ ?)
• User: Readers and watchers
• Platform: Firefox or Chrome on PC (and mobile?)

Other

• A Google Chrome Extension to get started
• Dataset
• A Tooltip software such as: https://www.tippedjs.com / https://github.com/staaky/tipped to display the synonymns from
• To sort out collaboration tool and/ or documentation repository for data from competitive research conducted by @extremerouge
• Reorganise project wiki pages
• Define timeframe and project roadmap
• Define segments in target audience, alongside communication channels and content formats
• Clarify approach to testing (assumption: soft launch for this community but what about QA in SDLC?)
• Clarify what (amount of) content marketing we will need prior to MVP launch, as it launches and post-launch