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Tess McNulty, UIUC English

Discussion Topic

Many genealogies of DH put text not just at the center of the field, but a its origins, as scholars created digital editions of literary and historical works and experimented with computational analysis of those materials. From literary corpora to political documents to social media, text continues to be a central data form to the digital humanities, even as methods expand to include more visual, aural, and other data forms.

Core

  • Benjamin M. Schmidt, “Do Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?” (2016) external resource
  • Melanie Walsh and Maria Antoniak, “The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism” (2021), external resource
  • Tess McNulty, “Content’s Forms” (2022), library resource

Penumbra

  • Michael Whitmore, “Text: A Massively Addressable Object,” Debates in the Digital Humanities (2012), external resource
  • Lisa Marie Rhody, “Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis” (2016), external resource
  • Katherine Bode, “Abstraction, Singularity, Textuality: The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘Distant’ Reading” from A World of Fiction (2018), library resource
  • Jo Guldi, “Critical Search: A Procedure for Guided Reading in Large-Scale Textual Corpora,” Cultural Analytics (2018), external resource
  • Scott B. Weingart, “The Route of a Text Message, a Love Story” (2019), external resource
  • David A. Smith and Ryan Cordell, “Textual Criticism as Language Modeling” in Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers (2019), external resource
  • Quinn Dombrowski, DSC /#8: Text-Comparison-Algorithm-Crazy Quinn (2020), external resource
  • James Dobson and Scott Sanders, “Distant Approaches to the Printed Page” (2022), external resource
  • Rachael Scarborough King, “The Scale of Genre” (2021), library resource
  • Gabi Kirilloff, “Computation as Context: New Approaches to the Close/Distant Reading Debate” (2022), library resource
  • Jennifer Guiliano and Laura Estill, “What Gets Categorized Counts: Controlled Vocabularies, Digital Affordances, and the International Digital Humanities Conference” (2023), external resource
  • David O. Oberhelman, “Distant Reading, Computational Stylistics, and Corpus Linguistics: The Critical Theory of Digital Humanities for Literature Subject Librarians” in Digital Humanities in the Library (2024), library resource
  • Hannah Ringler, “Computation and Hermeneutics: Why We Still Need Interpretation to Be by (Computational) Humanists” (2024), external resource

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