Voyant – links to Cirrus, Site, and brief discussion

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=aa8b3eb88143e0f8226245d16b403a45&view=Cirrus&stopList=keywords-d5f4ebe4b9b6f5743038c35b188319d7&whiteList=&visible=45

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=aa8b3eb88143e0f8226245d16b403a45

Unsurprisingly, the two most commonly appearing words in my documents were “Science” and “Fiction.” The thing that surprised me most was the prevalence of the phrases “Star Trek” and “Star Wars.” I was surprised since I only made one post explicitly talking about Star Wars, and Star Trek was only referenced to support other points I was making. Perhaps the common appearance of these phrases illustrates how impossible it is to discuss the genera of SF without mentioning either one, seeing how they often appear in articles totally unrelated to the works themselves. I was also surprised how the word “space” appeared more than the word “future.” many works of SF see space as the future, so perhaps in a way they are one and the same, though I still would have thought that the word “future” would appear far more often than it did. My most frequently appearing words, in order of frequency, were fiction, science, star, war, and space. This I think gives insight that the things I was concerned with researching in the greatest depth related more to mainstream SF than I had realized, as well as how prevalent franchises like Star Wars are, as I discussed earlier.

 

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