Navigating the mise-en-page: Interpretive machine learning approaches to the visual layouts of multi-ethnic periodicals

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Joshua Ortiz Baco, Sarah H. Salter, Jim Casey

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Abstract

This paper presents a computational method of analysis that draws from machine learning, library science, and literary studies to map the visual layouts of multi-ethnic newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th century United States. This work departs from prior approaches to newspapers that focus on individual pieces of textual and visual content. Our method combines Chronicling America’s MARC data and the Newspaper Navigator machine learning dataset to identify the visual patterns of newspaper page layouts. By analyzing high-dimensional visual similarity, we aim to better understand how editors spoke and protested through the layout of their papers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)49-61
Number of pages13
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2989
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 Conference on Computational Humanities Research, CHR 2021 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Nov 17 2021Nov 19 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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