How might a computational analysis of the humanities in public discourse inform future efforts in humanities education and research? This question motivates this short essay; here, we reflect on key arguments from our longer article “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers” with an eye toward imagining possible use cases and applications for our findings. After summarizing our main claims, we suggest ways of reframing or revaluing advocacy for the humanities based on this research. These include delineating concrete examples of the relationship between humanistic knowledge and the public interest, shifting institutional and disciplinary priorities toward forms of labor that engage a wider variety of publics, and understanding the connections between, rather than focusing on competition among, the humanities and the sciences.
{"title":"What We Learned About the Humanities from a Study of Thousands of Newspaper Articles","authors":"Lindsay Thomas, Abigail Droge","doi":"10.22148/001c.35907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.35907","url":null,"abstract":"How might a computational analysis of the humanities in public discourse inform future efforts in humanities education and research? This question motivates this short essay; here, we reflect on key arguments from our longer article “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers” with an eye toward imagining possible use cases and applications for our findings. After summarizing our main claims, we suggest ways of reframing or revaluing advocacy for the humanities based on this research. These include delineating concrete examples of the relationship between humanistic knowledge and the public interest, shifting institutional and disciplinary priorities toward forms of labor that engage a wider variety of publics, and understanding the connections between, rather than focusing on competition among, the humanities and the sciences.","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45041695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhythms of Silence: Digital audio analysis of Swedish Radio Broadcasting, 1980-1989","authors":"Johan Malmstedt","doi":"10.22148/001c.34715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.34715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41254070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-War British Women Writers and their Cultural Impact: A Quantitative Approach","authors":"Ingo Berensmeyer, Sonja Trurnit","doi":"10.22148/001c.33994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.33994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49067719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between consumers and fans: Writing fan reports as a multifunctional evaluation practice","authors":"S. Meier-Vieracker","doi":"10.22148/001c.33570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.33570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41918518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berenike Herrmann, Noah Bubenhofer, Daniel Knuchel, S. Rebora, Thomas C. Messerli
{"title":"Cultures of E/valuation on the Social Web. A very short introduction to the special issue","authors":"Berenike Herrmann, Noah Bubenhofer, Daniel Knuchel, S. Rebora, Thomas C. Messerli","doi":"10.22148/001c.33086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.33086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48755300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets","authors":"Joshua Kotin, R. Koeser","doi":"10.22148/001c.32551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.32551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43704793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic defenses of the humanities often make two assumptions: first, that the overwhelming public perception of the humanities is one of crisis, and second, that our understanding of what the humanities mean is best traced through a lineage of famous reference points, from Matthew Arnold to the Harvard Redbook. We challenge these assumptions by reconsidering the humanities from the perspective of a corpus of over 147,000 relatively recent national and campus newspaper articles. Building from the work of the WhatEvery1Says project (WE1S), we employ computational methods to analyze how the humanities resonate in the daily language of communities, campuses, and cities across the US. We compare humanities discourse to science discourse, exploring the distinct ways that each type of discourse communicates research, situates itself institutionally, and discusses its value. Doing so shifts our understanding of both terms in the phrase “public humanities.” We turn from the sweeping and singular conception of “the public” often invoked by calls for a more public humanities to the multiple overlapping publics instantiated through the journalistic discourse we examine. And “the humanities” becomes not only the concept named by articles explicitly “about” the humanities, but also the accreted meaning of wide-ranging mentions of the term in building names, job titles, and announcements. We argue that such seemingly inconsequential uses of the term index diffuse yet vital connections between individuals, communities, and institutions including, but not limited to, colleges and universities. Ultimately, we aim to show that a robust understanding of how humanities discourse already interacts with and conceives of the publics it addresses should play a crucial role in informing ongoing and future public humanities efforts.
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The guidelines presented here were developed in a seminar aimed at M.A. and advanced B.A. students. They are based on narratological theories by Marie-Laure Ryan, Gérard Genette, William Nelles, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, and Viveca Füredy. Our contribution focuses on how collaborative annotation tasks can be used in university seminars, especially in the context of teaching students how to critically assess and compare theoretical frameworks and definitions. We also highlight the students’ impression that developing and using annotating guidelines improved their close-reading skills and that the task sensitised them to some of the core challenges of distant reading (e.g. questions of ambiguity and interpretation).
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These guidelines comprise instructions for the usage of a series of markup tags that describe narrative characteristics of fiction. These tags are used to mark disruptions in narration, in the form of narrative level changes, temporal jumps, and instances of subjective narration. The tags are designed to be used in XML, as is the case in the examples in these guidelines, but they can beadaptedforotherplatformslikeCATMA.Therearesixtags: (foranarrativelevelchange, anoccurrenceofastory within a story), (a flashback), (a flash forward in story time), (stream of consciousness), and (free indirect discourse). The guidelines first describe the narrative concepts represented by each of the tags, with reference to Genette and other narratologists. There follows some detail on how the tags should be used specifically in the encoding of texts, with examples taken from a corpus of modernist fiction. Essentially, the tags should be applied at the points inthetextwheretherelevantinstanceofnarrativedisruptionbeginsandends. Thisallowsthemtheencodedtexttobeanalysed afterwards to count the frequency of the tags, and the number of words contained within a tag. In this way, the usage of the tags serves as a method for quantifying the extent of narrative disruption in works of fiction.
{"title":"Annotation Guidelines For narrative levels, time features, and subjective narration styles in fiction (SANTA 2)","authors":"Edward A. Kearns","doi":"10.22148/001c.30699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.30699","url":null,"abstract":"These guidelines comprise instructions for the usage of a series of markup tags that describe narrative characteristics of fiction. These tags are used to mark disruptions in narration, in the form of narrative level changes, temporal jumps, and instances of subjective narration. The tags are designed to be used in XML, as is the case in the examples in these guidelines, but they can beadaptedforotherplatformslikeCATMA.Therearesixtags: <level> (foranarrativelevelchange, anoccurrenceofastory within a story), <analepsis> (a flashback), <prolepsis> (a flash forward in story time), <soc> (stream of consciousness), and <fid> (free indirect discourse). The guidelines first describe the narrative concepts represented by each of the tags, with reference to Genette and other narratologists. There follows some detail on how the tags should be used specifically in the encoding of texts, with examples taken from a corpus of modernist fiction. Essentially, the tags should be applied at the points inthetextwheretherelevantinstanceofnarrativedisruptionbeginsandends. Thisallowsthemtheencodedtexttobeanalysed afterwards to count the frequency of the tags, and the number of words contained within a tag. In this way, the usage of the tags serves as a method for quantifying the extent of narrative disruption in works of fiction.","PeriodicalId":33005,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Analytics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46708873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The concept of narrative levels is widely applied in Literary Studies but often based on different theoretical foundations. To operationalise the concept with a reproducible category for a machine learning approach, these guidelines focus on two coredefinitionsofnarrativelevels, namelyGenette’sconceptofanarratorchangeandRyan’sproposalofillocutionaryand ontological boundaries between levels. We separate the notions of “level” and “narrative” into dedicated subcategories for the narrative level , which reflects a vertical dimension, and the narrative act that encompasses horizontally aligned stories. Furthermore, supplementary aspects, like the boundary type between narrative levels or related phenomena like metanarration and metalepsis, are captured as attributes in conjunction with the annotation category to obtain additional knowledge that might be relevant as training data. The guideline is divided into a first part that discusses narratological theory to define the annotation category as well as the attributes and a second part that gives annotation instructions along with textual examples.
叙事层次的概念在文学研究中得到了广泛的应用，但往往基于不同的理论基础。为了用机器学习方法的可复制类别来操作这一概念，这些指南侧重于两个层次的核心定义，即Genette's concept To anarratorchange和Ryan的提议，即层次之间的逻辑和本体边界。我们将“水平”和“叙事”的概念划分为专门的子类别，用于反映垂直维度的叙事水平和包括水平对齐故事的叙事行为。此外，补充方面，如叙事水平之间的边界类型或相关现象，如元叙事和元叙事，被捕获为与注释类别结合的属性，以获得可能作为训练数据相关的额外知识。该指南分为第一部分，讨论叙事学理论以定义注释类别和属性，第二部分给出注释说明和文本示例。
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