#distantreading — Public Fediverse posts

#dariah2026 last session of the conference going on #ai #llm #infrastructure - it might be the heat but I find it increasingly irritating that the underlining common ground is to agree on the so-called assistance of research and #DigitalHumanities via #ai - it reminds me of early days when we were discussing #distantreading : Analysing thousands of books only takes seconds. Now, all problems of format transformation, annotations, data cleaning and modeling are solved in seconds by #ai ? Really?

Presenting my course Machines of Knowledge, which introduces media studies students to #distantreading at the MA Digital Cultures information market today! Apart from technical skills & a basic understanding of #dataanalysis, the course teaches three different theoretical approaches. Students can apply (data) feminism, postcolonialism or the public spheres theory to Apple podcast reviews and YouTube comments. We emphasize the use of #opensource tools & invite students to experiment with #Python.

Mélanie-Becquet et al. introduce BookNLP-fr, a French adaptation of the #BookNLP pipeline by @dbamman et al., enhancing #genre classification with interpretable features and expanding tools for #distantreading in #CLS. https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3924 #CCLS24 #NLP #DigitalHumanities #DH

Les #DHNord2024, à partir d'aujourd'hui et durant 3 jours : Journées #dhnord 2024: prospective et nouvelles perspectives en humanités numériques. Le programme est juste..."mind-blowing"🤯=>https://journees-dhnord2024.sciencesconf.org/
#DH #HTR #computervision #IA #distantreading #infrastructures #SHS

📢 Im heutigen Beitrag zur #DigHis23 diskutiert @ChristianWachter die methodologischen Herausforderungen seines neuen Projekts zur Untersuchung der heterogenen Konzepte von #Demokratie in historischen Zeitungen der #WeimarerRepublik. Dazu bedient er sich mit dem #ScalableReading einer Kombination aus Close und #DistantReading.

📰 Zum Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8322406

#DigitalHistory #histodons

👥 #GraphMapsTrees | #DistantReading

✅ Pour celles et ceux que ça intéresse, des explorations par les #graphes, la #cartographie ou les #ArbresGénéalogiques de 4 romans et pièce de théâtre mettant en œuvre une quête familiale et/ou généalogique :

✔ Pas même le bruit d’un fleuve d’#HélèneDorion https://blog.apps.education.fr/articles/lieux-de-romans-geographie-de-pas-meme-le-bruit-dun-fleuve-dhelene-dorion-20202023-07-16t154020475z
✔ Forêts de #WajdiMouawad 👉 https://blog.apps.education.fr/articles/le-systeme-de-personnages-de-forets-de-wajdi-mouawad-20092023-07-25t000542493z
✔ Lignes de faille de #NancyHuston 👉 https://blog.apps.education.fr/articles/le-systeme-de-personnages-de-lignes-de-faille-de-nancy-huston2023-08-28t095002156z
✔ Magnus de #SylvieGermain 👉 https://blog.apps.education.fr/articles/le-systeme-de-personnages-de-magnus-de-sylvie-germain-20052023-08-29t170721382z

Very Lesenswert! #RobinAusts Rückblick auf unseren #distantreading #literarystudies workshop #bilinked #unibielefeld im Dezember 2022. Organisiert von den Communities of Practice Open Humanities und Data Literacy, mit @rebsim @thiliel

https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/innoteach/entry/workshop_r%C3%BCckschau_distant_reading_in

While searching for more #BASIC #BreakOut listings in #Paperware from the 80s, I found "A Evasão" in a portuguese translation of Peter Shaw's "Games for the ZX Spectrum". Nothing in the game code or its paratexts ("É uma versãode um jogo muito conhecido.") tells that this is a Breakout game.

This accidental discovery shows why it seems to be important to automatize BASIC code reading and interpretation.

#DistantReading #RetroGames

If you would like to work with #BigData, here are some:

Metadata of 200.000+ digitized works in the digitized collections of the Berlin State Library:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7716098

Fulltexts of about 30.000 digitized and OCR'd works in the digitized collections of the Berlin State Library:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7716032

Both datasets are accompanied by datasheets according to @timnitGebru et al's famous proposal https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1803.09010

Enjoy!

#culturalheritage #GLAMs #ResearchData #distantreading

Has anyone got recommendations for easy-to-scrape #digital #archives on #feminist or #postcolonial themes? I am looking for alternative sources to do #distantreading with students. So far, we have mainly used social media data. Everything that's open access and has decently structured HTML or download options for XML could be an option.

[Book] en #openaccess 🔓 "Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology" De Gruyter Oldenbourg; 2022 ▶️https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110729214/html
#distantreading #digitization #newspapers #history #DH #numérisation #massdigitization

In meinem jüngsten kurz vor Weihnachten veröffentlichten #openaccess-Artikel gehe ich im Rahmen eines Sonderbands zu #DistantReading der Frage nach, wie die Briefe Augustins nach ethischen Fragestellungen durchsucht werden könnten. #Augustinus #Briefforschung #Ethik #TopicModeling https://doi.org/10.25784/jeac.v4i0.1011

Was haltet ihr denn so von "binge reading"?

#DigitalHumanities #DH #LitWiss #DistantReading

@M_K_Schumacher Er würde dir vermutlich selbst zustimmen. Dass wir die Bücher (the great unread) nicht lesen sollen, war ja eher Rhetorik, um den quantitativen Ansatz des #distantreading zu stärken. Im Endeffekt checkt man die Ergebnisse ja eher wenig bis gar nicht, wenn man nicht reichlich Leseerfahrung hat.

In mir regt sich seit geraumer Zeit ein Zweifel daran, dass Moretti recht damit hatte, dass viel (selber) lesen nicht hilft. Ich glaube viel lesen und / oder viel gelesen zu haben hilft vielleicht doch. Auch und gerade bei der Arbeit mit Graphen, Karten und anderen Visualisierungen (von Daten, die aus literarischen Texten gewonnen wurden) 🤔

#DigitalHumanities #DistantReading #LitWiss

An #introduction:
I work at the intersection of #VictorianLiterature, especially #poetry and #poetics, with #digitalhumanities. I'm currently #distantreading poetry using #textanalysis, #machinelearning, and #networkanalysis. Always growing my knowledge of #rstats and #dataviz.
At UML, I also teach courses in #literarytheory, #sciencefiction, #bannedbooks, and #LGBTQ writers. Life coach for #academics and adults w/#ADHD.

On the side: movies, reading, yoga, life with dogs, #aiart.