Read: What is a corpus? What is freeware? What kinds of open access journals are there? What is the Plos One Open Access Journal? What is a paywall?
Watch: How can we make our own corpus? (slides are in Drive) (10 mins)
Watch: AntCorGen - Getting Started (6 mins)
Watch: Finding keywords (5 mins)| Finding collocations (8 mins) | Finding clusters (6 mins)
Quick writing: Follow the steps to download AntCorGen described in the video above. Create a folder and choose 50-100 journal articles in a field of interest to you following Anthony's instructions. Use AntConc (from the Harry Potter fan fiction exercise) to analyze the small corpus that you have created and share briefly your findings to the Chat and tell us why you think it is important. (Do not use Voyant Tools for this exercise unless you reduce the size of the corpus to about 10 texts). (due: 0600, 1 Oct)
2. Skim: the corpus of "movement interviews" that we were provided in the data folder in Drive. Prepare some points for a general discussion of them on Thursday's synchronous class.
Develop your Week 4 quick writing in Chat further into a blog posting of 750 words. Why did you choose the original subject that you did? How would you rate your expertise in this field? What features do you find most prominent in 100 articles? What kinds of repetitions do you find in academic language? What are the keywords? Are there interesting collocations? If you scale up to 200 or 300 articles do you find differences? How might this kind of analysis help you to identify bias in scientific publications? This exercise works because of the open access journal database--for what "paywalled" database would you like to be able to do such text mining? Be sure to include visuals demonstrating your results.
Discussion : What is data storytelling? What were you able to see from your Harry Potter analysis? (or the South Asian or Black American corpus)? What subject of journals did you pick and why?
Demo of keyword / collocation / cluster analysis | Discussion of AntCorGen
Discussion of Sxip/Coco's interviews and what kinds of stories we can tell from them. (MFW, LFW, sentence length, collocations, keywords)
This assignment is a storytelling exercise about the "Movement Interviews." (The text of your exercise should be less than 1250 words). It will be done in pairs (you will discuss the topic together and write up the assignment together--the same text / visuals can appear on both pages or a link).
Sign up for partners here. Note that in the column "USE" I indicate the interview that you must use. You can combine it with others if you like.
Questions that you want to address in your assignment:
how many interviews did you choose to work with? which ones?
what is the general topic of the interview(s) you are writing about?
what feature did you focus on? (most frequent/least frequent words, collocations, etc.)
did the surface reading help you pay attention to something in the movement interviews?
if you were to add some "close reading" to your analysis of the interviews what would you add?
how can you use the data of these interviews to tell a story?
Feel free to add graphs, tables or screenshots from Voyant Tools, AntConc or even hand-drawn visualizations to your text.
The instructor will share the results of your work with the artists and we will workshop the results altogether synchronously at the end of October.
Next week we will work with a corpus of science fiction drawn from Project Gutenberg.
Read: What is Project Gutenberg? PG Mission Statement.
2. Read: the introduction to this short book about science fiction (Seed). Make a short list of your favorite sci-fi films, books.