{"id":170,"date":"2019-01-08T22:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w19\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:20:10","slug":"homework-4-due-february-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w19\/homework-4-due-february-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework 4: Due February 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Choose five texts from Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Visualize them using Voyant<\/a>, and experiment with various views and settings. (You may find this guide helpful.<\/a>) Write a paragraph or two about what you did, what you found out about the texts, and what you couldn’t find out this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critiques of text analysis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Baker, Paul, and Erez Levon. \u201cPicking the Right Cherries? A Comparison of Corpus-Based and Qualitative Analyses of News Articles about Masculinity.\u201d Discourse & Communication<\/em> 9, no. 2 (April 2015): 221\u201336. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1750481314568542<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berry, David. \u201cThe Computational Turn: Thinking about the Digital Humanities.\u201d Culture Machine<\/em> 12 (February 18, 2011): 1\u201322. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bode, Katherine. \u201cThe Equivalence of \u2018Close\u2019 And \u2018Distant\u2019 Reading; Or, toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History.\u201d Modern Language Quarterly<\/em> 78, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 77\u2013106. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00267929-3699787<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinsman, Melissa, and Alex Galloway. \u201cThe Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Alexander Galloway.\u201d Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, March 27, 2016. https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/the-digital-in-the-humanities-an-interview-with-alexander-galloway\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan Baretta, Silvio R., John Markoff, and Gilbert Shapiro. \u201cThe Selective Transmission of Historical Documents: The Case of the Parish Cahiers of 1789.\u201d Histoire & Mesure<\/em> 2, no. 3 (1987): 115\u201372. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3406\/hism.1987.1328<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyers, Tom. \u201cThe Perils of the \u2018Digital Humanities\u2019: New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory.\u201d Postmodern Culture<\/em> 23, no. 2 (2013). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/pmc.2013.0038<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fish, Stanley E. \u201cWhat Is Stylistics and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?-Part II.\u201d Boundary 2<\/em> 8, no. 1 (1979): 129\u201346. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/303144<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pechenick, Eitan Adam, Christopher M. Danforth, and Peter Sheridan Dodds. \u201cCharacterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution.\u201d PLOS ONE<\/em> 10, no. 10 (October 7, 2015): e0137041. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0137041<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pettit, Michael. \u201cHistorical Time in the Age of Big Data: Cultural Psychology, Historical Change, and the Google Books Ngram Viewer.\u201d History of Psychology<\/em> 19, no. 2 (2016): 141\u201353. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/hop0000023<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putnam, Lara. \u201cThe Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They CastThe Transnational and the Text-Searchable.\u201d The American Historical Review<\/em> 121, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 377\u2013402. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ahr\/121.2.377<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stubbs, M. \u201cTexts, Corpora, and Problems of Interpretation: A Response to Widdowson.\u201d Applied Linguistics<\/em> 22, no. 2 (June 1, 2001): 149\u201372. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/applin\/22.2.149<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swafford, Annie. \u201cProblems with the Syuzhet Package.\u201d Anglophile in Academia:  Annie Swafford\u2019s Blog<\/em> (blog), March 2, 2015. https:\/\/annieswafford.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/02\/syuzhet\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenen, Dennis Yi. \u201cToward a Computational Archaeology of Fictional Space.\u201d New Literary History<\/em> 49, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 119\u201347. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/nlh.2018.0005<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weingart, Scott. \u201cLiveblogged Review of Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers, Part 2.\u201d the scottbot irregular, April 15, 2013. http:\/\/www.scottbot.net\/HIAL\/?p=34775<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Widdowson, H. G. \u201cOn the Limitations of Linguistics Applied.\u201d Applied Linguistics<\/em> 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2000): 3\u201325. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/applin\/21.1.3<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On web design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are just too many books and resources on this topic for me to attempt to winnow them down. However, at a quick glance, this list of books<\/a> looks pretty solid. Don’t forget that UCLA people have access to an extensive library of ebooks<\/a> on technical topics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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