The New York Times Project
Below you will find an interactive graphic generated by Voyant which provides a visual analysis of linguistic trends using a corpus composed of 80 articles from The New York Times relating to "Women and Girls" between the years 1940 and 2016. While the data visualization presented provides interesting information, it also evokes further questions pertaining to cultural understandings of women's issues and interests as presented in the media.
The following pages contain Voyant analyses for articles split into groupings of twenty years (scores) for the purpose of presenting shifts in media language with relation to the core issues of the various feminist waves. They are accompanied by points of interest that I have personally noted in my research, as well as images and short videoclips which relate to different feminist theorists and movements of the era to provide context to possible influences.
I urge you to interact with the embedded graphics, and to look up any terminology that interests you, exploring the project in which ever format suits you best.
Notes:
• This project acts as an example of what can be accomplished by text mining media data using a select number of tools. Any inferences or conclusions are purely provisional as they have been made using a fractional percentage of all articles related to "Women and Girls" that have been published by the NYT within the set time-frame and may therefore be largely inaccurate.
• All of the data presented has come from either The New York Times website,or ProQuest Historical Newspapers accessed through the University of Guelph.
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