Russell Conjugation Illuminator
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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
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Project Meeting Notes
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