Mapping biases in baseball tales: the Black Sox scandal

Hackney, Sarah

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Title

Mapping biases in baseball tales: the Black Sox scandal

Author(s)

Hackney, Sarah

Issue Date

2016-03-15

Keyword(s)

• Baseball
• Network Analysis
• Research Networks
• Information Bias
• Visualization

Abstract

This research investigates how the use of network visualizations can be used to highlight potential bias in narratives and citation networks that prioritize the use of a single ‘definitive’ source, using the Black Sox Scandal as an example. Using the network visualization tool Gephi, a picture of player involvement in the scandal is depicted, as described in the first-person account of Chick Gandil. Reweighting the network using eigenvector centrality, it is shown how Gandil uses his own narrative to position himself outside the central nexus of blame for the events. The next step of this project is to use these same tools to evaluate the network of research that has taken place around the Black Sox Scandal, to determine whether the culpabilities and accepted series of events is weighted or distorted by Eight Men Out, the definitive popular work on the subject.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

IConference 2016 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89357

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/16553

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