Podcast | Grass Whispering Infolklore

Principles of Infolklore (Ep 6)

Let’s go back to the principles of Infolklore.

Some of you will remember how I am deducing The principles of Infolklore.

Previous episodes:

Ep 1 - Aug 20

Ep 2 - Aug 27

Ep 3 - 3 Sept

Ep 4 - 10 Sept

Ep 5 - 17 Sept

I use a combination of my own written work, what scholars would call a vocabulary. I use that as a lens to look at the transcripts of Volya Radio, of RIA Melitopol and of RIA Pivden. I had noticed that they are particularly interesting artefacts. They appear to practise what I call the Code of Positive Trolls. I have theorised it since February 2020.

I am using a neural network algorithm, a frontier model, in a kind of recursive loop, which I think is the technical term. It goes through the archive again and again and again. We start with some principles in mind and look for them in the words spoken on Volya Radio. Then we find out whether they are general principles of Infolklore that turn up elsewhere in the text. Then, with those in mind, we go back through the whole data set again, and again.

So every week I speak to you, new and interesting aspects of the data set are emerging. So are new understandings, on my part, of what constitutes Infolklore.