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Audrey B

What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair ... - 0 views

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Martin Luther King twitter civil disobedience

shared by Audrey B on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    Baratunde Thurston imagines how the civil rights leader would have expressed himself in 140 characters. It is interesting to see that MLK was a reader and follower of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". There is civil disobedience going on all across the web. Was Thoreau also a precursor for an influx of electronic civil opposition?
Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Literature Statistics Content Analysis

shared by Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • A decline in references to “God,” “Christian” and “universal” is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism.
  • Yet large searches can also challenge some pet theories of close reading, he said: for example, that the Victorians were obsessed with the nature and origins of evil. As it turns out, books with the word “evil” in the title bumped along near the bottom of the graph, accounting for less than 0.1 percent — a thousandth — of those published during the Victorian era.
  • As Mr. Cohen is quick to acknowledge, the meaning of those numbers is anything but clear. Perhaps authors didn’t like to use the word “evil” in the title; perhaps there were other, more common synonyms; perhaps the context points to another subject altogether.
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  • Ms. Martin at Princeton knows firsthand how electronic searches can unearth both obscure texts and dead ends. She has spent the last 10 years compiling a list of books, newspaper and journal articles about the technical aspects of poetry. She recalled finding a sudden explosion of the words “syntax” and “prosody” in 1832, suggesting a spirited debate about poetic structure. But it turned out that Dr. Syntax and Prosody were the names of two racehorses.
  • Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10
     
    A decline in references to "God," "Christian" and "universal" is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism.
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