Distant Reading Franco Moretti, an Italian literary scholar, pioneered a new research technique within the digital humanities known as “distant reading.” Distant reading, as Moretti told the New York Times, is ” understanding literature not by studying particular texts, but by aggregating and analyzing massive amounts of data” (Schulz 3). It is also referred to as “textual/text analysis.” […]
Discovering Digital Documents
In my previous blog post, I utilized the ability of Google N-grams and Wordle to explore fascinating texts such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech and the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. While looking at the texts “off the page” and through digital tools, there were new […]
Digitalizing History
(Wordle of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech) There are many dominant words that significantly stand out in Dr. King’s speech. For example, there is freedom, Negro, dream, day, ring, nation, and every. However there are many subordinate words as well; there is racial, negro’s, Georgia, and colour. Looking at Dr. King’s speech through textual analysis, […]