Comments on: Social Networks, 19th-century novels, Gossip Girl

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:09:07 +0000

Thanks, Sean and Sara, for comments. Sorry they remained in moderation for a few days — I hadn’t checked to see if anything needed approval. Nice to hear from you both — and thanks for the links.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:56:44 +0000

Here's another link regarding the social networking/19c novels paper.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:15:14 +0000

I took Writing New York in Spring ’09 and Prof. Waterman and Patell’s lectures about Edith Wharton (with Waterman’s occasional references to Gossip Girl) inspired the last couple of lines of my blog post for NBC Niteside (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/niteside/NTSD-Society-Crowd-Starting-to-Snub-the-Term-Socialite-Publisher-102051968.html)

I still remember your lectures vividly! Amazing class.

By: Sean Nortz

Sean Nortz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:59:56 +0000

Love the literary social networks thing. Reminds me – I was dealing with sociogram software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociogram) in another class when researching the Television stuff, and I had this amazing idea in my head of this wiki-based online sociogram of the Downtown continuum. It could be called six degrees of Andy Warhol. I had some little charts drawn up just to keep track of sources, but it could be something really great. You’ve probably seen this, which is a similar idea but is totally linear: http://www.wardshelley.com/paintings/downtownbody.html

Also, glad someone is doing the REALLY difficult cultural research work: watching contemporary prime time television…but I saw a similar sort of graph mapping out the story lines of Twin Peaks, it was a glorious mess.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:36:55 +0000

By the way, were we supposed to understand last night that Nate’s soon to be sleeping with the ACTUAL Gossip Girl? ZOMG.