{ "audit_id": "JLI-STORY-CODEBOOK-AUDIT-2026-10-30-v1", "audit_date": "2026-10-30", "source_observation_date": "2026-09-20", "sources": [ { "filename": "short-form-hook-corpus-2026.json", "sha256": "d854e2fec64db8a8ae1170a21bde3fcea58b1f73f8ffc6eafdca9ce83dc3345c", "dataset_id": "JLI-DATA-HOOK-PAYOFF-2026-V1", "version": "1.0" }, { "filename": "storytelling-corpus-2026.json", "sha256": "d386334259a103c84a350081825bc9f2c774553b3fda1295c29aa992caa4b3d1", "dataset_id": "jli-short-form-storytelling-corpus-2026-v1", "version": "1.0" } ], "join_key": "researchId", "denominator": 52, "unmatched_records": 0, "missing_join_fields": 0, "rows": [ { "structure_id": "small-request-to-reversal", "label": "Small request → generosity → reversal", "definition": "A bounded request opens the exchange; the participant responds; later context changes who is helping whom.", "include": "The initial request must create the interaction and the direction of assistance must later reverse.", "exclude": "Exclude price-first exchanges, welfare checks, and stories that begin inside a practical action.", "limitation": "The opening request does not independently establish that every later reaction was unplanned.", "opening_type": "assistance-request", "editions": 16, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-005", "SFS-2026-024" ] }, { "structure_id": "welfare-check-to-support", "label": "Welfare check → personal context → support", "definition": "An immediate check-in identifies a condition or concern; circumstances emerge; the story moves toward support.", "include": "The first clear beat must ask about the participant’s immediate wellbeing or situation.", "exclude": "Exclude openings led by a request from Josh, a price question, or a result preview.", "limitation": "A welfare question documents the recorded exchange, not an independent verification of every circumstance discussed.", "opening_type": "welfare-check", "editions": 8, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-001", "SFS-2026-020" ] }, { "structure_id": "need-to-context-to-response", "label": "Immediate need → context → response", "definition": "A concrete need is stated first; conversation supplies context; a practical or emotional response follows.", "include": "A participant or scene must state a specific need or constraint before the broader story is known.", "exclude": "Exclude welfare questions and small requests made by Josh.", "limitation": "The need may be participant-reported; the transcript does not independently verify private records.", "opening_type": "immediate-need-statement", "editions": 7, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-006", "SFS-2026-023" ] }, { "structure_id": "transaction-to-discovery", "label": "Transaction → purpose discovery → support", "definition": "A price, sale, or service starts the video; the reason behind it becomes the larger story.", "include": "The transaction must be the first clear premise and lead to a documented purpose or circumstance.", "exclude": "Exclude general requests for food or money that are not framed as an exchange.", "limitation": "A purchase or price question alone does not verify the participant’s wider account.", "opening_type": "transaction-question", "editions": 7, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-007", "SFS-2026-045" ] }, { "structure_id": "action-to-conversation", "label": "Action → conversation → resolution", "definition": "The video begins inside a practical action; conversation reveals context; the action develops into a response.", "include": "A visible or practical action must precede the full explanation.", "exclude": "Exclude openings where a question or statement already supplies the premise.", "limitation": "The transcript captures spoken evidence more completely than visual staging or shot sequence.", "opening_type": "action-first", "editions": 5, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-003", "SFS-2026-051" ] }, { "structure_id": "recap-to-update", "label": "Recap → present update → outcome", "definition": "An earlier encounter is re-established; the video moves to the present; a new result or next step is delivered.", "include": "The story must depend on an earlier public encounter and add a current update.", "exclude": "Exclude result-preview edits that reveal the later outcome before the chronology.", "limitation": "The update supports the stated result in that edition, not every later outcome.", "opening_type": "contextual-recap", "editions": 4, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-008", "SFS-2026-018" ] }, { "structure_id": "result-to-flashback-to-reveal", "label": "Result preview → flashback → reveal", "definition": "A later result is previewed; earlier context explains how it arose; the full reveal returns at the end.", "include": "The opening must disclose or preview a later result before returning to earlier chronology.", "exclude": "Exclude chronological update stories that do not preview the result.", "limitation": "Previewing an outcome describes edit order; it does not establish why viewers stayed.", "opening_type": "outcome-preview", "editions": 3, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-010", "SFS-2026-032" ] }, { "structure_id": "unexpected-statement-to-context", "label": "Unexpected statement → context → response", "definition": "A surprising statement creates the first narrative question; conversation explains it; the story redirects toward a response.", "include": "The opening claim must be unusual enough to create the main question resolved by later context.", "exclude": "Exclude ordinary statements of need or direct welfare questions.", "limitation": "Only two eligible corpus records use this structure, so the pattern is descriptive and small-sample.", "opening_type": "unexpected-statement", "editions": 2, "example_ids": [ "SFS-2026-047", "SFS-2026-050" ] } ], "interpretation": "The eight stored primary opening groups and eight whole-story structure groups partition these same 52 editions identically. Their matching distributions are not independent evidence of an opening-to-structure association.", "limitations": [ "Describes stored labels in one selected single-creator corpus; not a statewide, national or platform-wide estimate.", "No new video viewing or recoding; coding procedure, coder count, tie breaking and inter-rater reliability are not established by this audit.", "Does not validate every assignment or establish causation, performance, participant outcomes or industry-wide storytelling rules.", "Original editions remain immutable, including their separately documented timestamp erratum." ] }