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Journal of Cultural Analytics
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ISSN 2371-4549 · Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University · 210 artikel di indeks
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Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools
We quantify the representation, or presence, of characters of color in English Language Arts (ELA) instruction in the United States to better understand possible racial/ethnic emphases and gaps in literary curricula. We contribute two datasets: the first consists of books listed in widely-adopted…
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The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset: Data collection, scope, and data quality
The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset consists of 35,972 translated titles of fiction originally published in German between 1980-2020 by 6,457 authors in 86 languages. It represents the first freely available dataset of bibliographic translation data extracted from the German…
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Online Reviews as Communal Formations. A Corpus Linguistic Approach
Within the framework of our research we intend to show how online reviews could be seen not only as texts, but as digital practices and as part of “communal formations”. In order to justify our claim, we have collected extensive data from different literary review resources as well as reviews of…
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Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain
This paper explores the reception of classical works in Early Modern Britain during the hand press era, between the 1470s and 1790s. It investigates canon formation, knowledge transmission, and the integration of digital archives in quantitative book history. The study quantitatively maps changing…
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Parler Games: A Narrative Framework Analysis of Parler Conspiracy Theories and the January 6th Insurrection
Parler, a prominent right-leaning "echo platform," became a forum in late 2020 for Trump supporters convinced the 2020 election was fraudulent as they abandoned or were banned from Twitter. This study suggests that a narrative analytical approach to the discussions on Parler in the period from the…
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Geotropes: Situating Postcolonial Bestsellers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Conceptions of the literature of the Global South, and of India in particular, have been powerfully shaped by the work of a small number of well-known authors writing in English. The possible distortions resulting from this limited canon have garnered significant scholarly attention in the past two…
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Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure
Sentiment analysis, particularly with the advent of large language models, is reshaping our understanding of narrative. Emotional arcs in both fictional and non-fictional narratives surface latent structures that challenge traditional notions of plot and character. One reason is that feature…
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Computation and Form, Reconsidered
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, critics have continually reconsidered the compatibility of computation and the humanities. Often, questions of “form” have played key roles in these conversations. In the 1940s, for example, critics asked whether word-counting might capture…
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Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters
Despite frequently avowed commitments to formalist methodologies, computational literary studies (CLS) has insufficiently accounted for the importance of the formal architectures of the computational models it employs—particularly deep learning neural networks. Arguing against the tendency to treat…
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Tug-of-War of Emotion: Measuring and Modeling Sentiment Cycles in Chinese-Language Pop Song Lyrics, 1967-2023
Scholars of popular music often assume that trends in the sentiment of pop song lyrics (becoming more positive or negative over time) “mirror” those in listeners’ preferences or the ethos of societies. For example, the detected monotone downward trend in the sentiment of English-language pop lyrics…
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The Eclectic Reader
Eclecticism has been among the most central concerns in the sociology of cultural consumption for 30 years, but hardly any research has been done on the eclecticism of readers. We have been using data from Goodreads to address this blind spot. Our research enables us to describe some general…
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Pranks and the Viral Canon: On Top-Creator Content from YouTube to TikTok
Since the early 2000s, digital pranks—or filmed practical jokes—have earned a reputation for platform-based popularity. But how prominent are such pranks amongst other “viral” genres? And what might they reveal, more generally, about viral video as a cultural form? In this essay, I address these…
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Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse
This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments. Through analyses of rhyme and rhythm, it reveals how large language models (LLMs) exhibit a stubborn, formal stuckness in their outputs. The paper demonstrates that LLMs often…
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Revisiting Weimar Film Reviewers’ Sentiments: Integrating Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models
Film reviews are an obvious area for the application of sentiment analysis, but while this is common in the field of computer science, it has been mostly absent in film studies. Film scholars have quite rightly been skeptical of such techniques due to their inability to grasp nuanced critical…
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Soviet View of the World. Exploring Long-Term Visual Patterns in “Novosti dnia” Newsreel Journal (1945-1992)
Newsreels, short documentary news films, were an influential channel of mass communication and propaganda in the Soviet Union. They served as an important means of visualizing the world for audiences in the way the Soviet authorities wanted it to be depicted. Studies in Soviet visual culture have…
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Quantifying Women’s Marginalisation in Ibero-American Film Culture During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Network-Science Proposal
The research presented here uses the tools of social network analysis to empirically show a socio-cultural phenomenon already addressed by the social sciences and history: the historical marginalisation of women in the field of cinema. The novelty of our approach lies in the use of a large amount…
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Approaching a National Film History through Data. Network Analysis in German Film History
The present paper is an attempt at importing network analysis as a method and applying it to a field that has hitherto been examined in different ways: the study of national cinema. The approach was motivated by the perceived conundrum in the existing studies of German cinema that filmhistorical…
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A Counterfactual Canon
The article analyzes the relationship between gender and taste at Shakespeare and Company. Using the *Shakespeare and Company Project* datasets, we discover that the majority of the books in the lending library were by men, and that women were almost twice as likely as men to borrow books by women…