{"id":1919,"date":"2018-08-29T01:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremiepgagnon.wordpress.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2018-08-29T01:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:35:42","slug":"publication-text-mining-jrpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeremiepgagnon.net\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/publication-text-mining-jrpgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication – Text Mining JRPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article I have been working on for many years now has been published through the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds<\/a>. The paper grew out of an experimental project that I conducted for the completion of the field papers requirements as part of my PhD degree that the MLCS department had at the time at the University of Alberta. I essentially text mined hundreds of JRPG reviews in order to find meaningful discourses that would help scholars understand the formation of the JRPG genre as a discursive phenomenon. While not all the results introduced groundbreaking elements to the history of the circulation of JRPGs in the anglophone Western world, I believe that it provide enough new elements that could serve as a base for the emergence of renewed inquiries on the genre, as well as reaffirm previous claims backed with statistical evidence.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the element that surprised me the most was that, starting from 2009 onward, JRPGs started to be written on in a much more negative fashion than in previous years. The contrast between these two generated topics covering both positive and negative language offered some paths worth investigating:<\/p>\n

Negative connotations attached to the genre clearly outnumber positive ones with JRPGs becoming objects of harsh critique at a time of an important industry-changing technological shift in game production and marketing. Although JRPGs did have a generally positive reputation in the first few years of the twenty-first century, their image was tarnished by the end of the decade as their higher presence in the media exposed them to conflictual reinterpretations through a phenomenon compa-
\nrable to Appadurai\u2019s \u2018tournament of values\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overall, I think this is just the beginning between text mining and me. Having gone through all the steps to publish this sort of research (both to conduct and explain the project), I am now in a much stronger position to tackle more ambitious projects on gaming culture and digital humanities methods using my own tools. If you have any game-related text data sets that beg to be explored, don’t hesitate to reach out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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