Feminist modernist digital humanities

Golden, Amanda; Laity, Cassandra

doi:10.1080/24692921.2018.1503786

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“…In their introduction to a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on "Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities," Amanda Golden and Cassandra Laity argue, "Until recently, DH has been prominently associated with scientific neutrality, 'big data,' quantification and the ensuing practices of distant reading or macroanalysis." 43 Although I think this charge against digital humanities is overstated, I share the concern that "purportedly 'objective' knowledge systems can and do inscribe exclusionary, hierarchical assumptions." 44 My work resists the assertion that cultural analytics methods necessitate binary thinking, overconfidence, or disavowal of their own limitations.…”

Section: Dataset: Book Reviews and Metadatamentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Dynamics and Critical Reception: A Study of Early 20th-century Book Reviews from The New York Times

Lavin

2020

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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This paper focuses on book reviews at the turn-of-the century United States in order to underline fundamental compatibilities between large-scale, computational methods and book historical approaches. It analyzes a dataset of approximately 2,800 book reviews published in The New York Times between January 1, 1905 and December 31, 1925. Several machine learning scenarios are employed to investigate how the underlying reviews constructed gendered norms for reading and readership. Logistic regression models are trained and tested to evaluate how effectively lemma frequencies predict the perceived or presumed gender of an author under review. The paper discusses four different feature selection scenarios, as follows: (1) No terms removed, (2) Stop words removed, (3) Stop words, gender nouns, and titles removed, and (4) Stop words, gender nouns, titles, and common forenames removed. For each scenario, the top lemma coefficients are discussed and interpreted. Tracing the norms (gendered and gendering) of The New York Times BookReview in the early twentieth century demonstrates that even the summary-driven book reviews played an important role in mediating hierarchies of taste and distinction. Further, the paper seeks to demonstrate that cultural analytics methods can be used to investigate a range of research questions related to authorship, publishing, circulation, and reception.

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Section: Dataset: Book Reviews and Metadatamentioning

confidence: 99%