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Article published In: Scientific Study of Literature
Vol. 12:1/2 (2022) ► pp.4–27

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The new monstrous and its resonance with Frankenstein

A method to detail a social mind

ORCiD logo with link | Learning Evaluation and Assessment PsychologyWacoTX
Published online: 3 July 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.22009.tho
Short Abstract
The commonplace that monster stories disguise collective anxiety is evaluated within the frame of nine Artificial Intelligence-themed films produced from 1979 and 2018. I conducted a machine learning classification task with the R open-source platform toward illustrating those films’ resonance with Shelley, M. S. (1818). Frankenstein, or the Modern Promotheus. Public domain. Accessed November 21, 2021 [URL] Frankenstein. This study concludes by calling for substitution of text sets in order to answer pressing questions in the digital humanities. In doing so I assert the cognitive mapping potential revealed in computer-aided reading.
Article outline
  • Archetype, motif, stereotype and meme
  • Frankenstein as a harvest of horrors made ever anew
  • The monstrous and the noble AI at the cinema
  • Procedures
  • Measures
  • Results
  • Peirce and the provisionality of a claim and its measurement
  • References
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