Story:Mashing Texts Personas - Sidney

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The user is a women’s studies student investigating literary and social networks associated with first-wave feminism.
 
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She starts with Orlando, does a chronology of first-wave feminism and notices the Langham Place Group, and from there dives into the Degrees of Connection tool
 
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She looks first at all the organizations linked to the LPG
 
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Then at all the people associated with the LPG
 
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Then she wants to filter by kinds of association and takes a look at social networks, political networks, and literary/publishing networks.
 
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Having decided to explore social networks, she wants to see how dense the network was, so she wants to see how all those connected with the LPG are connected with each other.
 
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Take 18thc as a starting point
 
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Foreground all the literary relations
 
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Get at the sonnet: show links by genre; choose sonnet
 
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They see who had something to do with sonnets
 
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They remove unhelpful links or nodes or both
 
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Cf the interactive map of the London Tube
 
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5  Cultural formation exploration: Allow people to explore groups associated with different identity and experiential categories.
 
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[see some of our discussions of Cultural Formation tag for thinking through this in more detail]
 
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A user is a cultural critic who wants to identify writers associated with Africa
 
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She starts by identifying all those writers with entries (note we’d have to signal that limitation for these searches) associated with Africa, and sees that in a cultural formation context it comes up in a range of subtags:  geography, geogheritage, nationality
 
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She wants to compare that to people who have some association with Africa generally (equivalent to the search for entries by place search in the people entry point), compare the two groups and see what the overlap is.
 
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She looks at the excerpt and notes that in the case of Maud Sulter, Africa is not contained in a subtag but in Cultural Formation generally as a context, but that Black occurs in a racecolour tag. So she wants to look at the word Black in CF and see what kind of overlap there is with Africa in a CF tag.
 
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Once she has a set of associations she likes, she wants to be able to retain the groups she ends up with and run other kinds of searches on them.
 
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See also the relevant stories on the CWRC wiki:
 
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http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/Story:VisualizingSocialNetworks
 
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http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/Story:Mapping_Theatrical_Relationships
 
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6      Geographical associations
 
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Starting with the poetess subset, the user wants to get a sense of how those involved in the poetess movement were distributed geographically. In particular because London was the publishing centre, she wants to get a sense of how kind of pull it exercised on writers.
 
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She wants to compare the distribution of places of birth and places of death.
 
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She wants to consider the distribution of people living in London vs the people merely visiting London, and see how it changes, if it does, over time.
 
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She wants to consider the proportion of people involved in the subset who published inside London as opposed to outside of London (this would mean drawing on the bibl dbase rather than on just pPlaceOfPublication tags)
 
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As she identifies other areas of activity, such as alternative places of publication such as Dublin or Edinburgh, or the residences of particularly influential writers such as Felicia Hemans, she wants to see to what extent other people in the network/subset are connected to those places
 
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She wants also to try to assess what impact the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840 may have had on where writers lived in relation to where they published, so she would want to see whether patterns of relationships to places of publication change significantly after this date.
 

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