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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Aaron Hertzmann

      That is indeed true, and why all this matters. Our most popular storytelling is, for the most part, confined to a very narrow lane—fiction or nonfiction, dragons or Facebook. Game of Thrones broke out for a while, before sinking back into the limited genre.https://twitter.com/AaronHertzmann/status/1129404350139326464 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann
      Replying to @zeynep
      Beautifully written. I think it’s also why the dominance of superhero stories is so scary: the solution to all our problems is a Strong Man punching our enemies.
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Randall Harp

      Thank you! Yep, this lack of sociological imagination in storytelling is a bigger problem than one show. That's why it's worth discussing even if you don't care about this one genre—the storytelling method dominates everywhere from journalism to fiction.https://twitter.com/reharp/status/1129431954405953538 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Randall Harp @reharp
      a very good article about narratives and storytelling even if you don’t care about game of thrones https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1129390511436050432 …
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Laura E. Hall

      Yep, it was. Until they ran ahead of the novels and turned back to the more common storytelling structures which leave a lot of analysis on the table. (Also, they apparently suck at that form, too, but I digress).https://twitter.com/lauraehall/status/1129465570833788928 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Laura E. Hall @lauraehall
      This fully nails it, and identifies what made #GameofThrones compelling in the first place. It's a story about the structures of society and the effect they have on the people within them https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1129390511436050432 …
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Onur Altındağ

      That’s my thesis right there.https://twitter.com/quoting_marx/status/1129516967247962113 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Onur Altındağ @ronuraltindag
      If your all time favorite show is The Wire, you never liked the Hollywood productions but were surprised how much you initially enjoyed watching The #GoT and now you are really disappointed yet can't quite figure out why: let @zeynep take your hand. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/?redirect=1# …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Yeah, I actually wanted to write about why we are getting the technological transition/critique story mostly wrong. Not that the individuals don't matter, but there is so much more than them to this moment. https://twitter.com/atschrag/status/1129731154821701634 …

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2019

      So I will watch the #GOT finale but haha it will be hilarious if there is some deep sociological current that is explained only in the final episode that ties everything together in brilliant fashion. Keyser Söze seeing dead people, something something very sociological haha.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2019

      In case anyone is missing the soooo very subtle point of Daenerys and her troops. #gameofthrones Very subtle.pic.twitter.com/zMks6puyvs

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2019

      But, but dragon fire can't melt iron thrones. (aka #GameOfThronesFinale spawns off a million YouTube videos).

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 May 2019

      Another Emmy to Dinklage. Maybe the whole cast? (Except the one who stares into the distance all the time! Maybe he's a great actor, too, but who knows? No role till the end.) Breathtaking visuals. Stunning use of music. Someone tell me why they had a Night King at all? ktxbye.🤷‍♀️

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 May 2019

      Groan to realizing that they left all the young Stark stories open for endless sequels. First botch the final season because they are in a rush to ruin whatever can still be ruined for Star Wars, and then will give CSI:GenericTown feels onto whatever interesting came before.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 May 2019

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Julian Bishop  🍣

      I've been getting this question a lot. I do have some suggestions but thinking of crowdsourcing this. What's your favorite novel/film/drama/fiction that does a good job telling the sociological story? Rich characters but situated in their time and place.https://twitter.com/jbishdope/status/1131358808553295872 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Julian Bishop  🍣 @jbishdope
      Replying to @zeynep
      This was spot on. thank you. Do you have any novel rec's that pull off a sociological narrative successfully?
      5:56 PM - 22 May 2019
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        2. mcc‏ @mcclure111 22 May 2019
          Replying to @zeynep

          You know, if it's okay to recommend a video game, I want to recommend "Analogue: A Hate Story"/"Hate Plus"? "Hate Plus" is basically the story of a tiny society on a spaceship falling into revanchist fascism It's sort of like a novel where you can read the chapters in any order

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        3. mcc‏ @mcclure111 22 May 2019
          Replying to @mcclure111 @zeynep

          Another "interactive fiction" video game: "A Mind Forever Voyaging". It's from 1985(!) and it's basically about being a time traveling sociologist, you travel to different time periods in one society and try to act like a photojournalist capturing moments that represent the world

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        2. Jonathan Zittrain‏Verified account @zittrain 22 May 2019
          Replying to @zeynep

          Almost a caricature of what you describe, perhaps, but isn’t Asimov’s Foundation about (if not embodying) exactly this idea?

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 May 2019
          Replying to @zittrain

          Same idea, yep. Can't totally say the same for rich character development there. 😬

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        1. Reema Faris‏ @rmfaris 22 May 2019
          Replying to @zeynep

          When I saw your question, the first title that came to mind was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn although it’s been decades since I read it! I’d have to go back and have another look.

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        1. Kai  😷 🏴‏ @caerule_us 22 May 2019
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          The Expanse. Political drama, action, sci-fi... all in one!

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        1. Ben Rosengart‏ @fivetonsflax 22 May 2019
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          War and Peace

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        1. diana brace‏ @dianacolada 22 May 2019
          Replying to @zeynep

          Middlemarch

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        1. Erik Pavia‏ @erikpavia 22 May 2019
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          William Gibson is good at this.

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        1. Katherine Firth‏ @katrinafee 22 May 2019
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          War and Peace is the classic!

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