Rachel Buurma DH Seminar
From Commonplace Book
Questions
- what training do we need? My sense is some coding but more stats.
readings
Underwood
- In fact, as Katherine Bode has noted, the questions posed by distant readers are often continuous with the older tradition of book history (Reading); as Jim English has noted, they are also continuous with the sociology of literature (“Everywhere”).
- Distant reading is better understood as part of a broad intellectual shift that has also been transforming the social sciences. The
- In the twentieth century, the difficulty of representing unstructured text divided the quantitative social sciences from the humanities. Sociologists