‘Disruptive’ media events, such as terrorist attacks or environmental disasters, are difficult to interpret due to an inability to grasp the story. In the media, such events are unwieldy and difficult to interpret due to their spread across platforms, media types and wide coverage – such events make a lot of 'noise'. This leads to problems for media scholars, who analyse how narratives construct different political, economic or cultural meanings around such events. Offering media scholars the ability to explore and create lucid narratives about media events therefore greatly supports their interpretative work. This project studies how exploratory search can help to understand how ‘disruptive’ events are constructed as narratives across media, and instilled with specific cultural-political meanings. This project approaches this question specifically by using CLARIAH components (DIVE+’s navigation and bookmarking pane) to examine how scholars use and create narratives to understand media events. Academic insights conclude how exploratory search supports narrative generation. Software-specific insights produce recommendations at the entity, interface and user level, provide starting points for media research, and recommendations for auto-generating narratives based on exploratory search practices. This project is a Research Pilot in the context of CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). See also: https://berberhagedoorn.wordpress.com/research/#NarrativizingDisruption Project team: Sabrina Sauer (RUG) & Berber Hagedoorn (RUG) Lora Aroyo (VU University) Liliana Melgar (UvA, CLARIAH) Victor de Boer (VU University) Roeland Ordelman (Beeld en Geluid)

1. Narrativizing Disruption
Berber Hagedoorn & Sabrina Sauer (RUG)
Lora Aroyo (VU University)
Liliana Melgar (UvA, CLARIAH)
Victor de Boer (VU University)
Roeland Ordelman (Beeld en Geluid)

2. How exploratory search can support media researchers to
interpret ‘disruptive’ media events as lucid narratives
DIVEEVENT-BASEDBROWSEROFLINKEDHISTORICALMEDIA
Research Phases
1. a. Select disruptive media events for input in DIVE
about conflict and breaking news
1. b. Construct event narratives using new DIVE features
1. c. Organize focus groups with media researchers
2. Realize incremental innovations to new DIVE features
3. Test implemented changes with same focus groups MEDIARESEARCHERS

3. DATA LEVEL
• Enrichment of
annotation, links,
entities, narratives
about events
INTERFACE LEVEL
• Recommendations
for automatic
suggestions of
starting points for
search & exploration
USER LEVEL
• Relation between
exploratory search
and & narrative
creation
• In-depth insights
into search process
of media
researchers
INSIGHTS of
NARRATIVIZING
DISRUPTION