Inspired by the “Spiegel-Mining” talk from David Kriesel, a friend of mine and a Prof. from the Hochschule Magdeburg scraped a german website that regularly publishes reviews of social work literature, and mined the resulting 18.000 articles, hoping for interesting insights.
In an attempt to visualize the discourse, we created several topic maps, like the one below, which you can find on the accompanying (german) website. The colours represent the gender of the authors of the review. Note that we are not entirely sure if this gender assignment is made by the editors or the authors. Also, the expiclit gender assignment was removed and can not be found on the scraped website anymore.
Section of the concept Web, visualized with Gephi
The findings were not that surprising: people who the website identified as woman tend to write reviews on topics that one could consider traditional female-dominated fields, like child care.