PAD Emotional State Model Applied to Scholarly Literature

To help commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. 50, as well as Black History Month, we are holding a hands-on digital scholarship workshop tomorrow (Tuesday, 02/20/18). The experimental nature of this workshop is to implement the PAD emotional state model, comprised of Pleasure (Valence), Arousal, and Dominance.

Workshop Title: Using JSTOR for Digital Humanities: The Baptist Scholarship Response to Civil Rights

Using the PAD ratings accompanying Warriner, A.B., Kuperman, V., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 1191-1207, I am quite pleased with how well we can classify scholarly text across the PAD spectrum.

We worked long hours preparing this one and I am so excited. We take users through the following:

1. Devise a search within JSTOR to identify articles discussing Baptists and civil rights
2. Use Zotero to download batch records and full-text.
3. Use the prepared Jupyter Notebook to accomplish the following:
   1. Parse the records from Zotero to create a frequency distribution using Google Charts column chart.
   2. Create 4 word clouds, one for entire corpus, and one for publications 1970 and earlier (pre-civil rights movement effects), one for 1971 – 1990 (pre-SBC Resolution effects), and one for 1991 – 2000.
   3. Allow participants to enter multiple keywords and phrases to search for particular aspects of civil rights or race relations.
   4. Creates bubble charts and line charts (again using Google Charts) to show the three PAD dimensions over time.