{"id":2548,"date":"2017-11-12T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2017-11-12T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T23:25:47","slug":"blog-post-6-mapping-decadence-not-food-tho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/12\/blog-post-6-mapping-decadence-not-food-tho\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 6: Mapping Decadence (not food tho)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are exploring various mapping techniques and how we can apply these to our own digital humanities projects. I chose to explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/mappingdecadence.wordpress.com\/\">Mapping Decadence<\/a> project which\u00a0<em>plot twist<\/em>\u00a0was actually not about food whatsoever. The project aims to geographically visualize relations between authors and publishers of the Decadence Movement, which was a cultural, literary, and artistic movement of the 19th century. To better inform myself, I gracefully Googled a definition and found this:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The [Decadence] movement was characterized by self-disgust, sickness at the world, general skepticism, delight in perversion and employment of crude humor and a belief in the superiority of human creativity over logic and the natural world&#8221;<\/em> (Wikipedia, the best source (; )<\/p>\n<h3>Assumptions, Revelations, and Obscurities<\/h3>\n<p>The goal of the project was to show that physical proximity largely determined which Decadent authors would collaborate with certain publishers. This can be easily seen in the maps through color coordination (see below). However, I think it is important to note that there are only four Decadent authors featured in this map. To make a wholistic claim regarding geography and collaboration, there should probably be many more creatives from the Decadent era documented within this map. This obscures our POV of the data\u00a0and shows that the maps were more tailored towards the mapper&#8217;s hypothesis and own POV. It does overall reveal that this pattern of physical proximity could be well-assumed for many large authors of the Decadent Era.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2552\" style=\"width: 836px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/webmap\/viewer.html?webmap=cf626831c7b14603ae8d5a45f55a6c54&amp;extent=2.2455,48.8188,2.4258,48.8965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2552 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Mapping.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Mapping.png 836w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Mapping-300x179.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/11\/Mapping-768x459.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachilde (purple pin) worked very closely with Mercure de France (red dot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If I were to envision a new version of this map, a lot more data would need to be included to add more authors and artists of the Decadent Movement. It&#8217;s difficult to claim something about the era as a whole when people from the entire era are not represented. I would also color code the publishers to be coordinated with the individual authors they worked with rather than just giving each publisher their own color. This makes it a bit confusing to follow the correlation between each author and their publishers. In my opinion, adding specific author-publisher colors would better highlight the relation the mapper is trying to show in the overall project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are exploring various mapping techniques and how we can apply these to our own digital humanities projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}