Blog Post - Response to Bots and Self-Generating Texts

I found that this blog post was comprised of the topics of bots, text, creation, and generating because those are the top 4 most used words within the blog. This was interesting because the words bots and generating are in the title as well as most commonly used within the body of the text. When looking at the world snippet (below), I was not surprised to see the words bots, create, human, generating, and text in the biggest font and having the greatest connection with one another. If I had not written/read the blog post “Response to Bots and Self-Generating Texts,” I could still hypothesize what the genre of the text would be from the key words and phrases provided by the Voyant technology data-mining website.

    When I plugged in the top 4 most commonly used words from our blog into Google’s Ngram viewer, the results were not in strong correlation with one another. The words “text” and “create” follow the same linear pattern, with a slight upwards spike in the 1940s and a downward shift closer to the 2000s. The words text and create have a steep upwards slope in the 1980s-90s which is important to note because that was when the Internet was becoming a prevalent part in everyone’s lives. The word “bots” seems to have little to no data, while the word “generating” has very little to no data until the the 1900s with a small jump near the 1970s. With such little data, I cannot hypothesize much.

Blog Post - Response to E-Lit - 75 most common words

This post was a response to electronic literature, and we focused on a piece titled “Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge” by Dinty Moore. His name was the word used most commonly. This makes sense, as we frequently referenced his work. The most common words all make sense within the context of the post: moore, story, literature, electronic, plimpton, etc. 

When plugging the three most common terms into an Ngram viewer, I disregarded ‘Moore’ and ‘Plimpton’ as they are names and are unlikely to wield results. When using the words ‘story,’ ‘literature,’ and ‘electronic,’ the result was the following:

The word ‘story’ has always had fluctuating popularity. There is a correlation between a rise in the frequency of both ‘literature’ and electronic’ from around 1940 to 2000. During that time, there was a rise in the number of digital products being researched and made available, and before this time they were almost unheard of. ‘Literature’ has always had some popularity, and it is steadily increasing over time (with a few dips here and there). If the Ngram viewer could show up to this year, I would be curious to see if there was an even greater correlation between them because of the rise in popularity of electronic literature.

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