Abstract
We present metadata of labeled faces extracted from a Time magazine archive that contains 3,389 issues ranging from 1923 to 2012. The data we are publishing consists of three subsets: Dataset 1) the gender labels and image characteristics for each of the 327,322 faces that were automatically-extracted from the entire Time archive, Dataset 2) a subset of 8,789 faces from a sample of 100 issues that were labeled by Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) workers according to ten dimensions (including gender) and used as training data to produce Dataset 1, and Dataset 3) the raw data collected from the AMT workers before being processed to produce Dataset 2.
Highlights
Time magazine is an American weekly news magazine that has been published continuously since 1923, when it was founded by Henry R
The data we are publishing consists of three subsets: Dataset 1) the gender labels and image characteristics for each of the 327,322 faces that were automatically-extracted from the entire Time archive, Dataset 2) a subset of 8,789 faces from a sample of 100 issues that were labeled by Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) workers according to ten dimensions and used as training data to produce Dataset 1, and Dataset 3) the raw data collected from the Amazon MTurk (AMT) workers before being processed to produce Dataset 2
How has gender representation changed over time? How has the importance of the image of the face changed over time? How does gender representation correlate with the magazine’s text and with the historical context? As noted in the introduction, we were able to address these questions using this data in a concurrent publication.[17]
Summary
Time magazine is an American weekly news magazine that has been published continuously since 1923, when it was founded by Henry R. Time quickly became the most popular news magazine in the United States and, due to its presence as a staple of mainstream news consumption, it has both reflected and influenced American popular attitudes, perhaps more than any comparable publication. Time’s continuous publication over the last nearly one hundred years, along with its position as a powerful popular cultural influence, makes it a unique vehicle for exploring trends in American society, including the centrality of images to twentieth and twenty-first culture, economics, and politics.[2] In our study, we focused upon how Time reflected this visual sensibility through images of individual faces. Tracking and analyzing the faces that appear in the magazine, through both digital-analytic and traditional humanistic means, offers a sense of what type of people – as represented through photographic depictions of their faces -- were considered culturally significant throughout the different eras of the magazine’s publication
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