Today Web-related software development seems to be faced with a crisis not unlike the one that occurred a generation ago when in the 70s computer hardware experienced an order of magnitude increase in computational power. While this made possible the implementation of a new class of applications larger both in size and complexity, the methods for software development available at that time were...

Scholars repeatedly argue that ‘audience engagement’ as a concept and, consequently practice, remain inconsistent and ambiguous. Such conceptual inconsistency is in tension with the relevance phenomenon of audience engagement has gained contemporary discussions about journalism. In this article, we tackle by conducting qualitative examination all academic peer-reviewed publications (217) dealt ...

Telling a great story often involves a deliberate alteration of emotions. In this paper, we objectively measure and analyze the narrative trajectories of stories in public speaking and their impact on subjective ratings. We conduct the analysis using the transcripts of over 2000 TED talks and estimate potential audience response using over 5 million spontaneous annotations from the viewers. We ...