Distant Reading Activity Pt.2

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To complete the distant reading activity, I use the text linked below to analyze what is everyone’s general opinion on the divergent movie series. To do this I collected data from each of the following articles and used visualization tools to help me get a feel of what the general consensus of opinions on this movie series is. I focused in on the most recent reviews from rotten tomatoes, and Reddit, and then used all the information provided by the articles I’ve read. I decided to track the most recent opinions on the movie since the articles also came out closer to this year compared to the year that the movie had just premiered. After collecting all this information though I have made three observations from using WordCloud and Voyant visualization which are provided below. I have recognized that there are more positive opinions compared to negative opinions, the first divergent movie is most significant to all of the people considered the audience, and the reviews from rotten tomatoes, and Reddit were on the same page about how they believe the movie is bad or predictable, leaving a negative connotation from the wider audience. to observe the content of the text from a different point of view I looked up keywords and phrases on Voyants specifically. To see if there were more negative words or positive words found, more uses of the titles of each movie, and the general opinion on each document that has a different type of person from this very general audience. By doing this, I have learned the general opinion and view that the audience has on the divergent movie series without even having to read each and every review. The visualizations that were created for me showed me exactly what people thought specifically about the movies and it’s interesting to see how others view the movies I would consider my favorite.