Work Site & Tools for Investigating The Masses

On these pages we’ll see what we can discover about The Masses by applying a range of visualization tools and quantitative analysis to the MJP’s catalogue records (MODS files) and text transcripts (TEI files) of the magazine. If you would like your own copy of the data files we used to make these charts, you can find them in the Masses folder on the MJP’s sourceforge repository.

Introduction: Some General Statistics about The Masses

• A synchronic overview of The Masses
• A diachronic overview of The Masses: pages — words vs. items — contributors — genres —over time

Topic 1: Contributor and Genre Networks in The Masses

• Contributors to different volumes of the magazine
• Contributors of different genres to the magazine

Topic 2: Gender and The Masses

• The gender of the Masses contributors
• A variety of “women” in the Masses transcripts

Topic 3: The Masses’ Book Review Network

• Book reviewers and the authors they reviewed in The Masses

Topic 4: Topic Modelling with The Masses Text Transcripts

• The Masses transcripts on Voyant, organized by volume/year
• The Masses transcripts on Voyant, organized by genre
• The Masses transcripts on Voyant, organized by volume/year as well as genre

Results and Research Questions

• Scholarly claims about The Masses that can be tested using the Masses work site tools
• Research problems and questions raised by our quantitaive analysis of the MJP’s Masses data files