February 2020 – Another Digital Humanities Blog

Digital Lab #7 – Political Data-Mining

As I alluded to toward the end of the previous lab, I consider all writing to be political, regardless of subject matter or authorial intent. To summarize what I described there, I believe that any form of communication contains inherent biases, which we should recognize and not take for granted. While one’s words may seemContinue reading “Digital Lab #7 – Political Data-Mining”

Digital Lab #6 – Poetic Data-Mining

Jordan Abel’s process in writing “Injun” inspires one to consider and question one’s relationship to the political and ideological undercurrents of historical texts and how they relate to present-day inequalities and injustices. By data-mining novels from and about the “Old West” for instances of such a derogatory term, and then using these texts to craftContinue reading “Digital Lab #6 – Poetic Data-Mining”

Digital Lab #5 – Data in Danielewski’s “Clip 4”

Now that we are starting to use data collecting methods in our analyses of literary texts, I have realized how detail-oriented and deliberate the process needs to be in order to discover any meaningful results. While one could take a large amount of text, plug it into some digital tool, and analyze the results, theContinue reading “Digital Lab #5 – Data in Danielewski’s “Clip 4””

Blog Post #2 – All About Data

While analyzing the origins and methods of processing data may seem tedious, I have found that such a discussion carries great importance when considering the humanist’s relationship with the text. In particular, we should always be cognizant of where our data comes from, if it has been processed, and if so, who processed it. WithoutContinue reading “Blog Post #2 – All About Data”

Digital Lab #4 – Data and Literature

As part of this lab, I altered code developed by Nick Montfort. Since I do not know a way to upload my HTML file to WordPress without a paid account, I will link to a page containing the code here. (I also submitted the HTML file with this URL for the assignment.) Additionally, here isContinue reading “Digital Lab #4 – Data and Literature”