{"id":720,"date":"2017-05-19T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/digital-computational-studies\/?p=720"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:36:49","slug":"graphs-volume-2-chapter-8-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/digital-computational-studies\/graphs-volume-2-chapter-8-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 8, About"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/bowdoin.ensemblevideo.com\/Watch\/Austen2<\/a><\/p>\n

A manually interpreted graph of gossip in Volume 2, Chapter 8. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this chapter, we watch Frank Churchill use gossip to his advantage to deflect attention from his engagement to Jane Fairfax.\u00a0 His relationship with her is simultaneously obscured and front and center; the gift of the pianoforte is all anyone can talk about, but no one suspects that the donor could be Frank Churchill.\u00a0 Frank uses the mystery surrounding the gift and the other characters\u2019 desire to gossip to deflect attention from himself.\u00a0 He allows Emma to form her own suspicions, then simply follows her lead in his own contributions to the conversation.<\/p>\n

Considering Frank\u2019s motives and methods of achieving them, I hypothesized that, in this dynamic graph, Frank would talk about whomever Emma talks about.\u00a0 Emma, then, would initiate a conversation about Mr. Dixon, and Frank\u2019s node would immediately point there as well.\u00a0 If you watch the above animation, you will see that this is indeed what happens.\u00a0 As Emma brings more characters into her suspicions, Frank reflects her thinking, allowing Emma to deceive herself without any obvious guidance from Frank.\u00a0 This pattern reveals Frank\u2019s mirroring of Emma\u2019s language in order to keep his own secret.<\/p>\n

However, this pattern also occurs in the conversation between Emma and Mrs. Weston.\u00a0 Mrs. Weston introduces a potential match between Mr. Knightley and Jane Fairfax, and Emma soundly contradicts her speculations.\u00a0 However, Emma does something that Frank does not in his imitation, which is introduce another topic to the conversation.\u00a0 While Frank is content to follow Emma\u2019s lead, Emma contradicts Mrs. Weston\u2019s ideas by posing the problem of Henry Knightley\u2019s inheritance.\u00a0 Whereas Frank is encouraging Emma\u2019s speculations, Emma refutes Mrs. Weston by diverting the conversation to another character.\u00a0 In all likelihood, it is merely standard for a gossip-driven conversation to follow this pattern of lead and follower, which would explain the structural similarities between two conversations of vastly different motives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/bowdoin.ensemblevideo.com\/Watch\/Austen2 A manually interpreted graph of gossip in Volume 2, Chapter 8. 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. In this chapter, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":718,"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-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}