{"id":706,"date":"2017-05-19T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/digital-computational-studies\/?p=706"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:53:40","slug":"graphs-volume-2-chapter-3-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/digital-computational-studies\/graphs-volume-2-chapter-3-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 3, About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A manually interpreted graph of gossip in Volume 2, Chapter 3. Each edge begins with the character speaking and terminates at the character being spoken about. Female nodes are pink, and male ones are blue. The nodes are sized by out-degree, so characters who talk more appear as larger nodes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manually determining the character about whom other characters were talking proved to be a difficult and interesting task.\u00a0 Mr. Woodhouse\u2019s role in the conversation is particularly notable.\u00a0 He almost never directly addresses the conversation, instead making observations such as, \u201cOnce, I felt the fire rather too much; but then I moved my chair a little, a very little, and it did not disturb me\u201d (134). \u00a0Emma and Mr. Knightley are far more focused on the conversation at hand, while Mr. Woodhouse is far more likely to follow his own train of thought and provide only tangentially relevant observations.\u00a0 This is evident in the graph, as Mr. Woodhouse\u2019s network only includes the characters in the room, revealing his inability to engage in the wider conversation.\u00a0 This characteristic is only evident on this small-scale graph.\u00a0 Because the community of the novel is so small, Mr. Woodhouse\u2019s is about the same as anyone else\u2019s on the scale of the full novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also notable in this chapter is the method by which the news of Mr. Elton\u2019s engagement gets to Emma.\u00a0 Mr. Elton has sent a letter to the Coles; Mr. Cole shares this letter with Mr. Knightley; and Mrs. Cole shares the information with Miss Bates.\u00a0 Both Mr. Knightley and Miss Bates arrive at Hartfield to share the news with Mr. Woodhouse and Emma.\u00a0 Mr. Knightley hints at the news, and I recorded this as talking \u201cabout\u201d Mr. and Mrs. Elton, if not explicitly.\u00a0 Miss Bates seems upset to hear that Mr. Knightley has heard this news before her \u2013 \u201cWhere could you possibly hear it, Mr. Knightley? For it is not five minutes since I received Mrs. Cole\u2019s note\u201d (136).\u00a0 Miss Bates\u2019s role is that of the town gossip, and she knows that her ability to spread information is her greatest social capital.<\/p>\n

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A manually interpreted graph of gossip in Volume 2, Chapter 3. Female nodes are pink, and male ones are blue. The nodes are sized by in-degree, so characters who are most talked about appear as larger nodes. Note that women are more responsible for circulating gossip in the previous graph, while men are more often the subject of gossip, as in this graph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see the characters\u2019 various roles displayed in the graph.\u00a0 Miss Bates\u2019s network, of course, has the furthest spread, as she routinely mentions five or ten characters in her long-winded passages.\u00a0 Removing her from the network results in 56.03% edge visibility; approximately half of the graph relies on her, unsurprisingly.\u00a0 Mr. Knightley, on the other hand, has a more contained reach.\u00a0 He is focused on the people in the room and on Mr. and Mrs. Elton, the primary subject of conversation.\u00a0 As a wealthy man, Mr. Knightley does not need to engage quite as fully in the network of gossip as Miss Bates does in order to hold social importance.\u00a0 Emma\u2019s network is more wide-ranging than Mr. Knightley\u2019s but less so than Miss Bates\u2019s.\u00a0 Surprisingly, removing Mr. and Mrs. Elton from the graph results in a 75.86% visibility of edges, so the network largely stays intact even without any gossip about their marriage.\u00a0 This is likely because the chapter opens with some conversation about other topics, and Miss Bates also mentions a variety of other characters in her gossip about the Eltons, so there is plenty of surrounding gossip to maintain the structure of the network.\u00a0 This would seem to suggest that although Mr. Elton\u2019s engagement is significant to the community insofar as it removes one eligible bachelor, the gossip of the town can and will continue regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manually determining the character about whom other characters were talking proved to be a difficult and interesting task.\u00a0 Mr. Woodhouse\u2019s role in the conversation is particularly notable.\u00a0 He almost never directly addresses the conversation, instead making observations such as, \u201cOnce, I felt the fire rather too much; but then I moved my chair a little, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-digital-computational-studies","category-jane-austen","tag-jane-austen-project","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}