Hermeneutica computer-assisted interpretation in the humanities / Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair.

Author/creator Rockwell, Geoffrey, 1959-
Other author Sinclair, Stéfan.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]
Descriptionviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction: Correcting method -- The measured words : how computers analyze texts -- From the concordance to ubiquitous analytics -- First interlude: The swallow flies swiftly through : an analysis of Humanist -- There's a toy in my essay : problems with the rhetoric of text analysis -- Second interlude: Now analyze that! : comparing the discourse on race -- False positives : opportunities and dangers in big text analysis -- Third interlude: Name games : analyzing game studies -- A model theory : thinking-through hermeneutical things -- Final interlude: The artifice of dialogue : thinking-through scepticism in Hume's dialogues -- Conclusion: Agile hermeneutics and the conversation of the humanities.
Scope and content "With increasing interest being shown in participatory research models, whether it be Wikipedia, World of Warcraft, participatory writing (like Montfort et al's 10 Print or Laurel et al's Design Research) or the more traditional communal research cultures of the arts collective or engineering lab, the Humanities is increasingly relying on computational tools to do the 'heavy lifting' necessary to process all of this information. Hermeneuti.ca, as its name implies, is about hermeneutical things--the computing tools of research that are usually hidden--how to use them, and how they are interpretative objects to be understood. Hermeneuti.ca is both a book and also a web site (http://hermeneuti.ca) that shows the interactive text analysis tools woven into the book. Essentially, Hermeneuti.ca is both a text about computer-assisted methods and a collection of analytical tools called Voyant (http://voyant-tools.org) that instantiate the authors ideas. While there is a definitely an emphasis on classic Digital Humanities work (corpus analysis, information retrieval, etc.), there is also a focus on the development of software as part of a project of knowledge that encompasses the idea of software as an active part of knowledge production that brings this book into the Software Studies series"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015038406
ISBN9780262034357 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

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