[SOA] Here's How Memes Went Viral - In the 1800s - Wired Science

[Carleton, Janet]

This is a really interesting piece that Jenni Salamon from OHS' NDNP project drew my attention to.

This is an awesome project, and includes data from Ohio Historical Society's NDNP Ohio digitized newspapers! http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/data-mining-viral-texts-1800s/

"The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually will include the later 19th century and expand to include magazines and other publications, says Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University and a leader of the project."