David Bamman

Biographic Data

ID326962
NAMEDavid Bamman
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEBamman
SIGNATUREBAMMAN D
AFFILIATIONSTufts University
ORCID0009-0003-1171-9408
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools

    Open AccessLi Lucy, Camilla Griffiths et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2025

    We quantify the representation, or presence, of characters of color in English Language Arts (ELA) instruction in the United States to better understand possible racial/ethnic emphases and gaps in literary curricula. We contribute two datasets: the first consists of books listed in widely-adopted Advanced Placement (AP) Literature & Composition exams, and the second is a set of books taught by teachers surveyed from schools with substantial Black…

  • Othering” Through War: Depiction of Asians/Asian Americans in U.S. History Textbooks

    Open AccessMinju Choi, Li Lucy et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher2025References: 27

    Using computational methods, we investigate a data set of 874,125 sentences from 30 U.S. history textbooks used in California and Texas schools to consider how they discuss Asians/Asian Americans. Only 1% of all sentences in our sample has any mention of Asians. Most of these sentences focus on Chinese and Japanese, and when individuals are named, they are usually White. The most prevalent topics in which Asians appear are about war. Discussions …

  • The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction

    Open AccessTed Underwood, David Bamman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Analytics2018

    This essay explores the changing significance of gender in fiction, asking especially whether its prominence in characterization has varied from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. We have reached twoconclusions, which may seem in tension with each other. The first is that gen-der divisions between characters have become less sharply marked over the last 170 years

  • Gender identity and lexical variation in social media

    Open AccessDavid Bamman, Jacob Eisenstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2014Cited by: 37References: 30

    We present a study of the relationship between gender, linguistic style, and social networks, using a novel corpus of 14,000 Twitter users. Prior quantitative work on gender often treats this social variable as a female/male binary; we argue for a more nuanced approach. By clustering Twitter users, we find a natural decomposition of the dataset into various styles and topical interests. Many clusters have strong gender orientations, but their use…

  • ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 1

    Open AccessGregory Crane, David Bamman et al.OTHERA Companion to Digital Literary…2013

    This chapter suggests directions in which an ePhilology may evolve. It makes two fundamental arguments. First, it assumes that the first generation of digital technology has only laid the groundwork for substantive change in classics and the humanities. Second, it advances arguments about what form an optimal digital future should assume. While Greek and Latin provide the focus for the chapter, the arguments apply in various ways to many areas wi…

  • Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media

    Open AccessDavid Bamman, Brendan O’Connor et al.ARTICLEFirst Monday2012

    With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the stream of information from Chinese domestic social media provides a case study of social media behavior under the influence of active censorship. While much work has looked at efforts to prevent access to information in China (including IP blocking of foreign Web sites or search engine filtering), we present here the first large–scale analysis of political content censorship in social media, i.e., t…

  • The Annotation Guidelines of the Latin Dependency Treebank and Index Thomisticus Treebank: The Treatment of some specific Syntactic Constructions in Latin

    Open AccessDavid Bamman, Marco Passarotti et al.CONFERENCEProceedings of the Language…2008

    The paper describes the treatment of some specific syntactic constructions in two treebanks of Latin according to a common set of annotation guidelines. Both projects work within the theoretical framework of Dependency Grammar, which has been demonstrated to be an especially appropriate framework for the representation of languages with a moderately free word order, where the linear order of constituents is broken up with elements of other consti…