5 times soap operas enabled social change
- Written by: Tom van Laer, Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney
ShutterstockA fancy term for how stories persuade us is through “narrative transportation”.
People get transported through two main components: empathy with the characters, and imagination of the plot.
Empathy is when people develop positive feelings toward a character and identify with the character’s values and fate.
Imagination...










