scholarly journals Exploring Ancient Networks

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niek Veldhuis

A small archive of texts from ancient Iraq is used to demonstrate an approach to network analysis in which traditional close reading and computational text analysis go hand-in-hand. The computational methods produce tables and graphs that link back to online editions of the primary material, enabling the user to check the results.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2094712
Author(s):  
Monika Bednarek ◽  
Georgia Carr

Digital methods are becoming more and more important for text analysis in communications research. However, many computational methods require either relevant technical expertise or multi-disciplinary collaboration, which has impeded their uptake. This article introduces an alternative: computer-assisted linguistic analysis (corpus linguistics), an approach that is increasingly being used outside linguistics and requires less expertise. The article uses a dataset of almost 700 items of health news to demonstrate how such techniques can aid the analysis of (dis)preferred language, sources, stigma and responsibility, framing, and project-specific text analysis. We conclude with an evaluation of the key advantages and limitations of corpus linguistic analysis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fallon R. Mitchell ◽  
Sara Santarossa ◽  
Sarah J. Woodruff

The present study aimed to explore the interactions and influences that occurred on Twitter after Joey Julius’s (NCAA athlete, Penn State Football) and Mike Marjama’s (MLB player, Seattle Mariners) eating-disorder (ED) diagnoses were revealed. Corresponding with the publicizing of each athlete’s ED, all publicly tagged Twitter media using @joey_julius, Joey Julius, @MMarjama, and Mike Marjama were collected using Netlytic software and analyzed. Text analysis revealed that the conversation was supportive and focused on feelings and size. Social network analysis, based on 5 network properties, showed that Joey Julius invoked a larger conversation but that both athletes’ conversations were single sided. Athlete advocacy on social media should be further explored, as it may contribute to changing societal opinion regarding social issues such as EDs.


1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman P. Hummon ◽  
Patrick Doreian

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 297-305
Author(s):  
Bastiaan Versteeg ◽  
Robert Bertrand

This article explores the measurement and assessment of Tone at the Top (TATT) in CEO letters of Dutch listed companies (AEX) over a 10 year period. A combination of quantitative (text analysis) and qualitative research (close reading) is conducted. The main findings indicate that measured TATT is relatively stable for AEX companies over time. However, at closer examination significant deviations from the mean TATT are evident. Possible explanations are provided for these out-of-range TATT scores through the identification of several variables, e.g., difficult operating circumstances, investments and disinvestments, changes in the composition of supervisory boards, corporate governance, and compliance with law and regulations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Liton Chakraborty Mithun

In the volume On Behula's Raft published in 2008 by Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, some significant social, cultural, political and historical aspects of Bangladesh figure repeatedly. This paper tries to explain how these aspects are reflected in Hossain's poems through text analysis of the primary material and some other primary and secondary sources. In this volume, Behula myth is found to be re-created and modified to suit Hossain's exploration into and celebration of, and commitment to Bangladesh, his beloved and beautiful motherland. Some important characters have been highlighted in this volume such as Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina, a victim of fanaticism named Noorjahan, a legendary Bengali female poet called Kankabati and a Dhaka rickshaw-puller named Abushama to present various socio-politico-economic aspects of Bangladesh. Moreover, Bangladesh's liberation war, political reality, problems and potentials have been depicted in most of the poems in the volume. The paper implies that in On Behula's Raft, Hossain (2008) upholds a Bangladesh consciousness on an epical scale which has rendered great significance to the volume. 


Author(s):  
Haidee Kotze ◽  
Berit Janssen ◽  
Corina Koolen ◽  
Luka van der Plas ◽  
Gys-Walt van Egdom

Abstract This article uses the Digital Opinions on Translated Literature (dioptra-l) corpus to study readers’ perceptions of and responses to translation in a naturalistic setting, focusing on the normative constructs or cognitive-evaluative templates they use to conceptualise, evaluate and respond to translations. We answer two main questions: (1) How visible, or salient, is the fact of translation to readers reading a translated literary text, and are there differences in the degree and nature of this visibility for different languages and translation directions? (2) What are the main concepts, and emotional and evaluative parameters that readers use to describe translated literary texts, and are there differences in these concepts and parameters when considered by different translation directionalities and genres? We make use of computational methods, including collocational network analysis, keyword analysis, and sentiment analysis to extract information about the salience of translation, and the networks of emotive and evaluative language that are used around the concept of translation. This forms the basis of our proposals for particular cognitive-evaluative templates.


Author(s):  
Jennifer Davey

At heart of this book lie thousands of letters sent to and from Mary. These letters have either been overlooked or underused by political historians. This chapter considers what Mary’s letters can tell us about Victorian political culture and it is divided into three parts. The first section charts the history of Mary’s archive. It draws attention to the uneven patterns of survival that characterize the archives of aristocratic women and stresses the importance of historicizing the archives used by historians of high politics. The second section explores how Mary used the letter as a political tool to amass and exercise political influence. The final section explores the composition and form of Mary’s political network. Using network analysis, it reconstructs Mary’s position in political society and plots her proximity to the networks that sustained political life at Westminster. Overall, it argues that a close reading of epistolary culture offers a valuable insight into the labyrinthine networks that sustained Victorian political life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Katalin Fehér

Tanulmányunk célja globális látleletet adni az aktuális okos város trendtémákról és koncepciókról a legnépszerűbb nyilvános, kollaborációs dokumentációk alapján. A témát először a tudományos szakirodalom változó hangsúlyainak rövid összefoglalása vezeti fel. Ezt követően kormányzati, üzleti és egyetemi-kutatási együttműködések dokumentumai alapján egy szisztematikus összeállított korpusz bemutatására kerül sor. Az elemzési módszertan ismertetése után kvantitatív szövegelemzésre és szöveg alapú kapcsolatháló-elemzésre kerül sor az aktuális trendtémák kimutatásához. Végül a korpuszban legtöbbet hivatkozott koncepciók rövid ismertetése következik. A végeredmény egy olyan összegzés, mely ajánlásokat fogalmaz meg az okos város tervezéshez a tudományos szakirodalom, a legnépszerűbb és legkeresettebb, széles nyilvánosságnak szóló, összefoglaló dokumentációkban megfogalmazott aktuális trend témák, illetve a kutatási korpuszon legtöbbet hivatkozott városkoncepciók alapján. --- Smart city trends and concepts according to the most popular collaborative documentation The purpose of our paper is to provide a global perspective of the current smart city trend topics and concepts of most popular and collaborative public documents. The field is first presented by a brief summary of its changing emphasis on scientific literature. Therefore, a systematic filtered corpus will be presented based on documents of governmental, business and university research co-operation. After describing the methodological concerns, a quantitative text analysis and text-based network analysis are formulated for detection of current trend topics. Last but not least, the most referred concepts of the corpus are briefly expounded. The outcome is a summary of recommendations for smart city planning applying the scientific literature, the most popular and public documentation of current trend topics, and the most referred city concepts according to the research corpus.


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