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TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMAN MACROANALYSIS MATTHEW L. JOCKERS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS ibona, Chica, and Springfiid 5 METADATA ‘oan hae tins pce ee “This chapter ofa fst example of the moana ppeoach brings new ‘nowiede to our understanding oferaryhstory. This chapter also begin the larger exploration fin uence that ms ning thread i this book. The evidence presented heres primary quanta was gathered fom alarge Mera bbiogphy sing ad hoe computational ols. To an extent this chapter ofthe inecary record In the absence fall ext, his ibiographi metadata a 5 aCalfornian, Norris wa ased and began her wring etree in and among ‘he rsh communiy of San Francisco. fer marrying, though, she moved to Theres of More projet were elena the keynote aie tthe 07 liga humanities conference a Campaign bana and then pulsed i Cita Ingay “Thereof my sls ofthe sh American iat ve reer in formats fst in co? a ned ett tld “Neto ning the ean Ltery Corps the Univesity ofS, Lol a! et spinatte ote Mera Language Asotin ppe ed Beyond Metadata ¥ forc Inthe database, she consistently cased Norris "This proces of baman ong aa for anal hsb ued with ntereting realise Gomcall 308 Thee ar other wos that hae stomped to encplte age segment Ames terry histor: Myon pale warn ich Aces hrs inte, Metadata » Fe. cheng ting oA en period that Fanning ientser as ene when Irish Americans were Fave been silenced by cultural an social forces. Where I the ot ‘hat Fanning postulates? ‘When the resus are rgeaphe, as shown in gure 5.2, 19 at sd then begin a forty-year period of ascendancy ‘iesten waiters clearly dominated the early pat ofthe sett centr, ‘further seperation oftexts base on thor gender revels even more about ‘what washappeninginthis period To begin Sigure 3 showsalltects separated by gender, With the exception ofthe 150s, ale productivity is consistently eater than fale prodctvty Aside fom thi eomewhst curious tion Fea tne pig Pe ean Sey i inthe tho, the male and femalelins tend tofllow similar couse suggest Ing thatthe general trends in eh Amara literary production are driven by forces exeral to gender” Svea vera ve 83. Cong ai ot er ey L_ ——— = eo FS GF FS HF ve Cate a tiny eid & Fim. Something special for rsh American women or that thee was something spe- ial about the Irish women who wert west of till ore ky that twas some ‘combination ofboth ‘este authors, both mal and ‘ema, certainly spear to have countered ny literary cession ofthe East. Tat they succeeded in doing so despite or pethaps dicey because ofa signdicanty smaller Ith ethic popaation in ‘the Wests facinating. igure 56 incorporates canes gues to explore ish ‘Ameccan literary ouput inthe context of ester and western demograpics, ‘he chact plots rsh American bods published per ten thowsand ish bore sore sparsely populated West produced more books per capita, In further dramatzrg the probleme with Fanning’ argument American author being tiled inthe ery part ofthe twentieth century thee data revel a counteristtive tend in trary productivity. Geo. ‘apical moved from the heart of the publishing nds inthe Eat rsh Americans inthe Wes were also further removed fom the primary bs rsh "Shere ave argued tht its mat ily acombicaion ofboth actos lockers, 08h bar tha ofeastr, In theg305asan example western writers were producing ‘sworsfor every ten thousand rh immigrants Eastafthe Msissppia the ‘same year ish American authorsmanaged ust as books per ten thousand oF "ook for every thirty thousand lsh immigrants” Even nthe years oatide of {canis fundamentally honda anecllNewerteles bene be ‘erate, Coleco sch thi on fom Aland Stet Pes ee * Sec hp/bds lesan com cpio ee) round for even deeper macroanal esearch because the collection hasbth rich metadata and fal et. ‘Wehvesen what ppearsto bes strong connection between geography and Metaéata * ant-Cutolc and anttrih prejudice that typified the ate 1600, when poor "haa inmignn one ren rs Ara some bene stigma and steretyi ‘comparing the fequency and distrbution of specific word types—ethnic and religious markersin thiscase—over ime nd by eion the analysis of public fom igo trough 2000 te wage ef maker words reaches oni percetinthe sand then ever exceeds 6 percent. This it ‘lly ass question: what heppensin or around 680 to cae the pécptous crease! Here we must move rom ur ney found fatto interpretation, "dine ‘ete market ince vords that pial ede would enya a eh thi, These makes inde ac boas ward sh and rn Dubin Shamrock and Dong! asl ales cbs bat equal ode wore and surnames suchas pri Parish arth dice Cath, ag, Mr, Phen (ORagn Oeil Ota Domne Rar Olan Shanna soon, single ‘ext employing on ofthese ethnic identifiers, and accounting for n percent of allthe Ih American texts published that decade, comes from awrite who lived wertofthe Masisppi ‘ites employing eink marks areal predominantly writers ual fe ‘on After goo ll uta few instasces ofthese markers occur in tes of wocks| of Ish eumigratr ‘ook, fom 1886, deals withthe same subject, but provider nothing to ent ‘Theis pol somewhat smiie the one dey angi he content fhe ey ise ‘Toscholarsofesh America iterate and culture, the grogrephicand chron- ‘logical analysis explored here confm an important sespicion about the vole tat culture and geography playin termining not * Ummigation hee wa le donne an avenge of 93 ungue word pes vera Sma sage fem Aun “Formoreonepinim and the perl cst ft thin the weer eset CPP PITI ISTE COPE OP OO EE m5. thant tn rove dec ite “hatha tha onal rade boeing snes woe “Tide eng lost cera lays alee. Ar we move fo pt open, the teo-yearmoving verge re agin doptrom roughly svete bela 280 fy characters in he ter half the antes xy 0 then ‘wet vente haacraer 200 found them very dives (in terms ofc wcabularies—an, by extension thee presumed subjects), whereas a reader of more recent published texts would Sind reter similarity among the tes avalable on this hypothe bookhalt "ebookers. instead of tiles that distinguish one book fram another, what PPRPPPPP EPO OTEIF EE. POPPSIOTE * avauyate ‘the ies, but not onthe specific veeabuary hat deployed” ‘The word romance for example is a popular word in this comps of tes, After removing function words, tin fact the este moet fequently o- fo novelties in this period i uncertain that they utely di library and bookstore shelve icles * Obvious ome ators may at vish 9 tang ota the ct tal, Qt the coat ey ma at ase BiRER ETH GE Pie biaga

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