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Give Me A Story Memorable Enough, And I Shall Move The World: A Proto-Typology Of Storytelling In Online Petitions Of Human Rights International Non-Governmental Organizations, Aaron Kelly Anderson
Give Me A Story Memorable Enough, And I Shall Move The World: A Proto-Typology Of Storytelling In Online Petitions Of Human Rights International Non-Governmental Organizations, Aaron Kelly Anderson
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This study investigated the storytelling elements of 81 online petitions from 10 human rights international non-governmental organizations (HR-INGOs). The purpose was to analyze the content, structure, and context of the stories in these petitions and reconcile them into a typology—or “proto-typology,” since it was based on a specific sample of HR-INGOs and was intended for future studies to build upon. The study adapted the combined content-analysis (CCA) methodology devised by Hamad et al. (2016). There were three text-mining techniques (word frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and hierarchical clustering) and then a qualitative stage of narrative inquiry to conduct the data analysis …