{"id":3074,"date":"2019-02-05T01:51:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T01:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2019-02-05T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T01:54:07","slug":"week-4-timelines-and-alternate-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/2019\/02\/05\/week-4-timelines-and-alternate-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 3 – Communal Reading and Voyant"},"content":{"rendered":"

In terms of my own reading, with Herland <\/em>specifically, I find that my mind tries to find common themes throughout the text. Primarily with our current text, I look for the sociological concepts that are sprinkled throughout our reading. While doing this, I try to apply the social commentary given off by the reading to today\u2019s society\/ current ideals we have in modern culture. After our class discussion last Wednesday and hearing what everyone had annotated, I observed that we all seemed to take notice of the same situations and themes. There was a strong theme of male vs. female throughout our reading, which we all seemed to agree upon. We were all also very caught up on the oddity that was the cat and dog discussion towards the beginning of chapter 5. I think that this communal reading experience makes it easier to compare ideas with one another since you are able to see each other\u2019s annotations. You are able to see someone else\u2019s thought out ideas and opinions and can then compare them with how interpreted the text.<\/p>\n

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This seems easier than only having a discussion in which you have to remember what everyone else is constantly saying in order take part and keep up with what is being said. With the annotations and ideas in front of you, it\u2019s easier to formulate and think about your responses in order to add to the discussion. Now that we have spent time reading Herland<\/em>, I have the background and context that I wasn\u2019t given when initially using Voyant to analyze the text. Voyant had simply given different aspects of the text such as words that come up frequently and other aspects. It wasn\u2019t until we began to read the text that these different aspects began to click into place and make more sense. These were no longer random facts put into different formats. I now understand how each piece comes together to construct the story back into its original form. Honestly, I still have somes trouble navigating through Voyant. But, something that I did find intriguing by using Voyant that I wouldn\u2019 have realized by only using the physical copy as a reference were how many times certain words or names came up within the story. For instance, the name Terry comes up an astounding number of times when the text is analyzed using Voyant. This leads me to believe that Terry is someone who is meant to be somewhat of a focal point throughout the story, instead of simply a side character. This point may have been less clear if I had been making observation solely based on the physical text alone. I am going to keep playing around with Voyant more since it is still somewhat hard for me to navigate. I think there may just be so many aspects to it that I get confused when trying to take in all of the information it is providing. I would like to get familiar enough with Voyant so that I find it to be helpful with the reading experience instead of mostly confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In terms of my own reading, with Herland specifically, I find that my mind tries to find common themes throughout the text. Primarily with our current text, I look for the sociological concepts that are sprinkled throughout our reading. While doing this, I try to apply the social commentary given off by the reading to today\u2019s society\/ current ideals we have in modern culture. After our class discussion last Wednesday and hearing what everyone had annotated, I observed that we all seemed to take notice of the same situations and themes. There was a strong theme of male vs. female throughout our reading, which we all seemed to agree upon. We were all also very caught up on the oddity that was the cat and dog discussion towards the beginning of chapter 5. I think that this communal reading experience makes it easier to compare ideas with one another since you are able to see each other\u2019s annotations. You are able to see someone else\u2019s thought out ideas and opinions and can then compare them with how interpreted the text. This seems easier than only having a discussion in which you have to remember what everyone else is constantly saying in order take part and keep up with what is being said. With the annotations and ideas in front of you, it\u2019s easier to formulate and think about your responses in order to add to the discussion. Now that we have spent time reading Herland, I have the background and context that I wasn\u2019t given when initially using Voyant to analyze the text. Voyant had simply given different aspects of the text such as words that come up frequently and other aspects. It wasn\u2019t until we began to read the text that these different aspects began to click into place and make more sense. These were no longer random facts put into different formats. I now understand how each piece comes together to construct the story back into its original form. Honestly, I still have somes trouble navigating through Voyant. But, something that I did find intriguing by using Voyant that I wouldn\u2019 have realized by only using the physical copy as a reference were how many times certain words or names came up within the story. For instance, the name Terry comes up an astounding number of times when the text is analyzed using Voyant. This leads me to believe that Terry is someone who is meant to be somewhat of a focal point throughout the story, instead of simply a side character. This point may have been less clear if I had been making observation solely based on the physical text alone. I am going to keep playing around with Voyant more since it is still somewhat hard for me to navigate. I think there may just be so many aspects to it that I get confused when trying to take in all of the information it is providing. I would like to get familiar enough with Voyant so that I find it to be helpful with the reading experience instead of mostly confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/technology-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}