1. Abolitionist Newspapers and Maintaining 8-Year Project Momentum with Lauren Klein and Sandeep Soni

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Diaries of Social Data Research

Katherine A. Keith, Naitian Zhou, & Lucy Li

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Large-scale data has become a major component of research about human behavior and society. But how are interdisciplinary collaborations that use large-scale social data formed and maintained? What obstacles are encountered on the journey from idea conception to publication? In this podcast, we investigate these questions by probing the “research diaries” of scholars in computational social science and adjacent fields. We unmask the research process with the hope of normalizing the challenges of and increasing accessibility in academia. Music: Jon Gillick.

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1. Abolitionist Newspapers and Maintaining 8-Year Project Momentum with Lauren Klein and Sandeep Soni

Diaries of Social Data Research

54 minutes 38 seconds

4 years ago

1. Abolitionist Newspapers and Maintaining 8-Year Project Momentum with Lauren Klein and Sandeep Soni

This episode features two guests: Lauren Klein, an associate professor of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, and Sandeep Soni, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Their Cultural Analytics paper, "Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers", was published earlier this year in 2021, with an additional co-author, computational linguist Jacob Eisenstein.

Sandeep and Lauren discuss the challenges involved in this project---a project that began with a conversation between Lauren and Jacob over dim sum---from gathering and cleaning noisy data to maintaining research momentum over the project’s eight year lifespan.

Paper link: https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.18841