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Weiye Loh

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

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Literature Statistics Content Analysis

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  • 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.
Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Literature Statistics Content Analysis

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  • The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.
  • This research, which has only recently become possible, thanks to a new generation of powerful digital tools and databases, represents one of the many ways that technology is transforming the study of literature, philosophy and other humanistic fields that haven’t necessarily embraced large-scale quantitative analysis.
  • There is also anxiety, however, about the potential of electronic tools to reduce literature and history to a series of numbers, squeezing out important subjects that cannot be easily quantified.
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  • Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s plan to create a voluminous online library and store has raised alarms about a potential monopoly over digital books and the hefty pricing that might follow. But Jon Orwant, the engineering manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents, said the plan was to make collections and searching tools available to libraries and scholars free. “That’s something we absolutely will do, and no, it’s not going to cost anything,” he said.
  • Mr. Houghton sought to capture what he called a “general sense” of how middle- and upper-class Victorians thought, partly by closely reading scores of texts written during the era and methodically counting how many times certain words appeared. The increasing use of “hope,” “light” and “sunlight,” for instance, was interpreted as a sign of the Victorians’ increasing optimism.
Gideon Burton

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications will Transform via Cybermetrics - 3 views

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      Gideon Burton on 26 May 10
       
      Note the features of this online writing: -situates itself relative to ongoing discussion (via explicit reference and links) -contains an explicit thesis statement early in the post -includes headings to make subsections easier to navigate and the longer post easier to read -includes appropriate images to draw interest, break up the text, and illustrate the argument -includes mild use of formatting options for emphasis (highlighting in this case) -includes hyperlinks to references -quotes and cites both traditional and online sources (uses the blockquote formatting for a longer quote) -links not only to sources for quotations, but to relevant entities or organizations, or to discussions of the issue (maybe less scholarly, but timely and relevant) -rhetorically, it lays out a story about the past, situates a phenomenon in the present, and discusses the impact for the future of these ideas within our more mediated digital environment -includes relevant tags -has received comments from others (due in part to the author "pinging" or announcing that he'd published a post on his blog via Twitter or other social media
Audrey B

Henry Thoreau and 'Civil Disobedience' - 0 views

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  • Prior to his arrest, Thoreau had lived a quiet, solitary life at Walden, an isolated pond in the woods about a mile and a half from Concord. He now returned to Walden to mull over two questions: (1) Why do some men obey laws without asking if the laws are just or unjust; and, (2) why do others obey laws they think are wrong?
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      Audrey B on 31 May 10
       
      The two questions that led Thoreau to go to Walden Pond.
  • Transcendentalism became Thoreau’s intellectual training ground. His first appearance in print was a poem entitled “Sympathy” published in the first issue of The Dial, a Transcendentalist paper. As Transcendentalists migrated to Concord, one by one, Thoreau was exposed to all facets of the movement and took his place in its inner circle. At Emerson’s suggestion, he kept a daily journal, from which most of Walden was eventually culled. [12]     But Thoreau still longed for a life both concrete and spiritual. He wanted to translate his thoughts into action. While Transcendentalists praised nature, Thoreau walked through it.
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      Audrey B on 31 May 10
       
      So while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond in solitude, he was also apart of the Transcendentalist movement. "Thoreau was exposed to all facets of the movement and took his place in its inner circle...he kept a daily journal from which most of Walden was eventually culled." Thoreau lived as an observer and researcher of other people's actions. He wanted to learn more and eventually "translate his thoughts into action." Translating his thoughts to action took years but eventually lead to "Civil Disobedience"--an essay written in result of turning thoughts into action.
Carlie Wallentine

E-book Sales Stats - 0 views

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ebooks publishing

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  • Carlie Wallentine on 27 May 11
     
    A short article about the rise of e-book sales.
Carlie Wallentine

Ebooks in Education - 0 views

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ebooks education free publishing formating

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  • Carlie Wallentine on 31 May 11
     
    A great website on ebooks in general and in education.
Gideon Burton

Ebooks the way nature intended | Enhanced Editions - 0 views

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ebooks publishing ebook iPhone

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 May 11
     
    New modes of delivering multi-media, multi-modal books (via the iPhone). I wonder if this is now dated since the advent of the iPad, or whether anything like this can really get traction if it is for a dedicated device (no matter how popular the iPhone is).
Gideon Burton

Catalog of Free e-books | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing an... - 2 views

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ebooks catalog

shared by Gideon Burton on 10 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 10 Jun 11
     
    A nice list of sites and services for free eBooks
Amy Whitaker

Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement-blog - 0 views

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  • Amy Whitaker on 09 May 11
     
    This is a great blog post on Lawrence Lessig's take on the free access movment (Lessig is the author of the digital culture book, Remix). This is relevant to anyone reading anything regarding digital collaboration and copyright laws.
  • Ben Wagner on 09 May 11
     
    Thanks for posting this it really adds to what Dr. Burton was just talking about with opening up the Library database, Definitely going to try and watch the whole video at some point.
Nyssa Silvester

Red Lemonade | The future of publishing begins with you - and it starts here, right now. - 0 views

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Collaboration writing crowdsourcing

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  • Nyssa Silvester on 10 May 11
     
    Site that brings readers, writers, and editors together to collaborate.
Ben Wagner

Book Country, an Online Site by Penguin Group - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Digital Publishing

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  • Ben Wagner on 04 May 11
     
    Social Networking for Aspiring Authors
Sam McGrath

Participate on evly.com - 0 views

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crowdsourcing

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  • Sam McGrath on 06 May 11
     
    This is specifically for crowdsourcing. It seems like the first step toward what is describe in Rainbows End. The idea of this type of social network is kind of exciting.
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