georgian pingbacks: mapping attribution networks in a 19th-century newspaper corpus
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GEORGIAN PINGBACKSMAPPING ATTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN A 19TH CENTURY NEWSPAPER CORPUS
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M. H. BEALSORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
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SCISSORS-AND-PASTE JOURNALISM
A longstanding practice wherein one newspaper reprints, in part of in whole, content from another newspaper, with or without attribution, as part of an explicit or implied reciprocity agreement.
PLAGIARISM OR DISTRIBUTION
Lou Bloomfield, Copyfind (version 4.1.4). Windows. Charlottesville, Va., 2016.
PLAGIARISM OR DISTRIBUTION
Undirected Network of Newspaper Reprints, 1818-1819. Gephi Consortium, Gephi (version 0.9.1 ). Windows. 2016.
PLAGIARISM OR DISTRIBUTION
M. H. Beals and John Wood, Reprint Mapper (version 0.0.4). Windows. Loughborough, UK, 2016.
while (Data >> PM >> OL >> OR >> A_Year >> A_Month >> A_Day >> A_Newspaper >> UI_A >> B_Year >> B_Month >> B_Day >> B_Newspaper >> UI_B)
{++NumLines;if (A_Newspaper == B_Newspaper){}else if (OR <= OR_Tolerance && OL <= OL_Tolerance && OR + OL <=
PM_Tolerance){}else if (A_Year > B_Year){
if (A_Year - B_Year == 1){
int A_Days = MonthToDays(A_Month, IsLeap(A_Year)) + A_Day;
bool bIsLeapYear = IsLeap(B_Year);int B_Days = MonthToDays(B_Month,
bIsLeapYear) + B_Day;if (bIsLeapYear)
B_Days = 366 - B_Days;else
B_Days = 365 - B_Days;if (A_Days + B_Days <=
MaxDaysBetween){
{Comparisons.push_back(Comp);
Comparisons[i].PM = PM;
Comparisons[i].OL = OL;
Comparisons[i].OR = OR;
Comparisons[i].bIsOriginal = false;Comparisons[i].A.UI =
UI_A;
Comparisons[i].A.Newspaper = A_Newspaper;Comparisons[i].A.Year
= A_Year;
Comparisons[i].A.Month = A_Month;Comparisons[i].A.Day =
A_Day;Comparisons[i].B.UI =
UI_B;
Comparisons[i].B.Newspaper = B_Newspaper;Comparisons[i].B.Year =
B_Year;
Comparisons[i].B.Month = B_Month;Comparisons[i].B.Day =
B_Day;++i;bUI_A_Done = false;bUI_B_Done = false;for (unsigned int it = 0;
it != size(UniqueArticle); ++it){
if (UniqueArticle[it].UID == UI_A)
bUI_A_Done = true;if
(UniqueArticle[it].UID == UI_B)
bUI_B_Done = true;}
PLAGIARISM OR DISTRIBUTION
UNAUTHORISED AND UNATTRIBUTED TEXTS
Directed Network of Newspaper Reprints, 1818-1819. Gephi Consortium, Gephi (version 0.9.1 ). Windows. 2016.
IDENTIFYING ATTRIBUTION
GEORGIAN PINGBACKS PROJECT
Particular thanks to the following undergraduate students at Loughborough University: Will Dickinson, Alice Gilbert, Ollie Luhrs, Alex Mackinder, Pooja Makwana, Matthew McCulloch, Jonny Ord, Emily Stanyard and Rebecca
Thompson.
GEORGIAN PINGBACKS PROJECT
GEORGIAN PINGBACKS PROJECT
GEORGIAN PINGBACKS PROJECT
PRELIMINARY RESULTS
The Ipswich Journal of 1820. David Huynh, Open Refine (version 2.6-beta.1 ). 2015.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Ipswich; 36
London; 27
Calais; 3
Cambridge; 3
Hanover; 3
Barking; 2
Dublin; 2Eye; 2
Wisbech; 2Woodbridge; 2
Barking Hall; 1Bayonne; 1 Burking Hall; 1 Colchester; 1 Norwich; 1 Seme; 1 Smithfield Market; 1 Southwark; 1 Thoroughfare; 1
PRELIMINARY RESULTSForeign Office; 1
Hampshire Telegraph; 3
London Gazette; 5
Newry Telegraph; 1
The Bury Post; 1
THE ETHICS OF REPRINTING
The Sydney Gazette, 2 January 1819, p. 2
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