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[PAST EVENT] Close Reading vs. Distant Reading Texts: What we can we learn from expanding our gaze?
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In this hands-on workshop, STLI Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching Paul Vierthaler will discuss the processes and affordances of distant reading, sometimes considered the opposite of close reading. Instead of carefully reading and analyzing a single work (or a group of works), distant reading takes thousands of pieces of literature and feeds them into a computer for analysis. What questions can be asked of a distant reading, and how do we do it?
Prof. Vierthaler will be showcasing Voyant Tools, one of the most popular and useful applications for distant reading in the Digital Humanities.
Join us for lunch on Wednesday, February 21 from noon to 1pm in the Ford Classroom in Swem Library. Register below.
Sponsored by: Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation
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