Category Archives: digital humanities

May 2, 2013

Macroanalysis featured in Inside Higher Ed

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The May 1, 2013, edition of Inside Higher Ed featured an Intellectual Affairs column on Matthew Jockers’s new book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. From IHE: Jockers uses his digital tools to analyze novels by, essentially, crunching  them–determining what … Continue reading →

August 21, 2012

NBC News on digital methods and literary history

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In a new Future of Tech column at NBC News.com, Devin Coldewey previews University of Illinois Press author Matthew Jockers’s forthcoming book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (June 2013). Jockers … has devised a method of comparing thousands of books to one another … Continue reading →

January 24, 2012

New York Times Opinionator on Stephen Ramsay’s “Reading Machines”

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In a January 23, 2012, New York Times Opinionator column on digital humanities, Stanley Fish explores Stephen Ramsay’s new book Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. “At times [Ramsay] argues that however alien algorithmic criticism may seem, it is really a … Continue reading →