Macroanalysis and the Culture Industry

Just a short followup to our in-class discussion of Matt Jockers’s Macroanalysis.  Not surprisingly, much of Jockers’s general message was preaching to the converted, given that we’re all here as volunteers interested in the digital humanities. Not surprisingly, much of what we had to say in terms of general appreciation, statistical methodology, presentation, and so forth […]

Of DH, Musicality, and Language

In our first class, naturally, we talked about what DH is, which led to the consideration of what qualifies someone as a DH practitioner.   And that discussion turned out to be pretty enlightening, with the use of some provocative (in a good sense) metaphors.

Designing a Digital Humanities course

This is the first time I’ve designed a DH course (though far from the first course I’ve designed, of course).   It wasn’t an easy process, and the product is necessarily idiosyncratic, but, writing the afternoon before the class’s first meeting, I’m pretty excited. I started by thinking about what I wanted students to come away […]

First post

Every blog needs a first post, and here’s mine.