By and large, what has made the very notion of computational humanities thinkable is the digitization of texts. This includes the conversion of print texts into digital form as well as the digital production of texts—the vast majority of texts produced in the 21st century are “born digital,” even if they are subsequently circulated in print form.
This course is an entry-point into interrogating digital texts. By design, this course focuses mostly on method and goes light on theory. We make the minimal assumption that texts are emissions of historical/cultural processes. The ways in which we theorize the relationship between texts and those underlying processes depend very much on the discipline in which we work. My hope is that as we grapple with these analytic methods, we can reflect on how to incorporate them into our own respective disciplinary frameworks.
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