Temporal Narrative Monitoring in Dynamic Information Environments
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| author | Farr, David Prochaska, Stephen Moody, Jack Ng, Lynnette Hui Xian Cruickshank, Iain Starbird, Kate West, Jevin |
| author_facet | Farr, David Prochaska, Stephen Moody, Jack Ng, Lynnette Hui Xian Cruickshank, Iain Starbird, Kate West, Jevin |
| contents | Comprehending the information environment (IE) during crisis events is challenging due to the rapid change and abstract nature of the domain. Many approaches focus on snapshots via classification methods or network approaches to describe the IE in crisis, ignoring the temporal nature of how information changed over time.
This work presents a system-oriented framework for modeling emerging narratives as temporally evolving semantic structures without requiring prior label specification. By integrating semantic embeddings, density-based clustering, and rolling temporal linkage, the framework represents narratives as persistent yet adaptive entities within a shared semantic space. We apply the methodology to a real-world crisis event and evaluate system behavior through stratified cluster validation and temporal lifecycle analysis. Results demonstrate high cluster coherence and reveal heterogeneous narrative lifecycles characterized by both transient fragments and stable narrative anchors.
We ground our approach in situational awareness theory, supporting perception and comprehension of the IE by transforming unstructured social media streams into interpretable, temporally structured representations. The resulting system provides a methodology for monitoring and decision support in dynamic information environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Temporal Narrative Monitoring in Dynamic Information Environments Farr, David Prochaska, Stephen Moody, Jack Ng, Lynnette Hui Xian Cruickshank, Iain Starbird, Kate West, Jevin Social and Information Networks Computation and Language Comprehending the information environment (IE) during crisis events is challenging due to the rapid change and abstract nature of the domain. Many approaches focus on snapshots via classification methods or network approaches to describe the IE in crisis, ignoring the temporal nature of how information changed over time. This work presents a system-oriented framework for modeling emerging narratives as temporally evolving semantic structures without requiring prior label specification. By integrating semantic embeddings, density-based clustering, and rolling temporal linkage, the framework represents narratives as persistent yet adaptive entities within a shared semantic space. We apply the methodology to a real-world crisis event and evaluate system behavior through stratified cluster validation and temporal lifecycle analysis. Results demonstrate high cluster coherence and reveal heterogeneous narrative lifecycles characterized by both transient fragments and stable narrative anchors. We ground our approach in situational awareness theory, supporting perception and comprehension of the IE by transforming unstructured social media streams into interpretable, temporally structured representations. The resulting system provides a methodology for monitoring and decision support in dynamic information environments. |
| title | Temporal Narrative Monitoring in Dynamic Information Environments |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17617 |