Chapter 1. Introduction
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Guest Lecture: Lauren Klein
- Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139-167.
- D'ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism. MIT press.
- Soni, S., Klein, L. F., & Eisenstein, J. (2021). Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers. Journal of Cultural Analytics, 1(2), 18841.
- Soni, S., Lerman, K., & Eisenstein, J. (2021). Follow the leader: Documents on the leading edge of semantic change get more citations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(4), 478-492.
Chapter 2. Excellence
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- What's the Matter with Book Reviews? (2021) N+1 Magazine.
Chapter 3. Questions
- Owens, T. (2014). Where to Start? On Research Questions in The Digital Humanities. Blog Post
- Bodemer, N. and Ruggeri, A. (2012). Finding a Good Research Question, in Theory. Science.
Guest Lecture: Richard Jean So
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- Pamuk, O. What the great pandemic novels teach us. New York Times April 23, 2020.
- Vadde, A. (2021). Platform or Publisher. PMLA, 136(3), 455-462.
- Wald, P. (2008). Contagious. Duke University Press. For Wald's recent talk on COVID-19 and the outbreak narrative, see for example here.
Chapter 4. Patterns
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Chapter 5. Democracy & Capitalism
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- The New York Times article search.
- Perry, C. & DeDeo, S. The Cognitive Science of Extremist Ideologies Online. arXiv Preprint. (Resource for the details of linkage measures).
- Scheffer, M. et al. The Rise and Fall of Rationality in Language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (see also this reply by Simon DeDeo).
Guest Lecture: Julia Lefkowitz
- Lefkowitz, J. (2018). “Tabloidization” or Dual Convergence: Quoted speech in tabloid and “quality” British newspapers 1970–2010. Journalism Studies. 19:3.
- Conboy, M. (2021). Tabloid culture: Parameters and debates. Global Tabloid. Routledge.
Chapter 6. Measurement and Operationalization
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- Moretti, L. (2013). Operationalizing”: or, the function of measurement in modern literary theory. Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 6.
- Underwood, T. (2013). Measurement and Modeling. (blog response to Moretti's piece).
Chapter 7. A Philosophical Approach to Probability
- Kinney D. (2021). Probability Notes.
- Hájek, A. (2019). Interpretations of Probability. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Briggs, R. (2010). The Metaphysics of Chance. Philosophy Compass. (N.B. the author of this paper now uses the name 'Ray Briggs').
- DeDeo, S. (2021). Bayesian Reasoning for Intelligent People.
- DeDeo, S. (2021). Information Theory for Intelligent People.
Guest Lecture: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
- Music from Earth (Voyager Golden Record playlist)
- Borges, Jorge Luis. The Library of Babel. 1941 (english translation, 1962)
- Buongiorno Nardelli, M. (2020). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the All-Interval 12-Tone Rows. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05007.
- Buongiorno Nardelli, M. (2020). Tonal harmony and the topology of dynamical score networks. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 1-15.
- Buongiorno Nardelli, M. (2020). Topology of networks in generalized musical spaces. Leonardo Music Journal, 30, 38-43.
- Buongiorno Nardelli, M. (2019, October). MUSICNTWRK: data tools for music theory, analysis and composition. In International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (pp. 190-215). Springer, Cham.
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Chapter 8. Application: Linkages in Philosophical Reasoning
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- Gary, A. (2021). Analytic Feminism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Anscombe, G.E.M. (1958). Modern Moral Philosophy. Philosophy. 33:124.
Chapter 9. Application: Topic Modeling in the Culture Industry
- Blei, D. Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities. Journal of Digital Humanities. 2:1.
- Weingart, S. Topic Modeling for Humanists: A Guided Tour. ScottBot.net.
- Graham, S. et al. Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET. Programming Historian.
Guest Lecture: Nan Z. Da
- Da, N.Z. The Computational Case Against Computational Literary Studies. Critical Inquiry. 45
Examples of archives & corpora for Digital Humanities scholarship
- Novel450 collection of 450 novels in English, French and German, 1770-1930 [https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/txtlab_Novel450/2062002/3]
- History of Black Writing Novel Corpus, a corpus of 53 publicly accessible novels (450+ in the complete collection) by African American writers [https://textual-optics-lab.uchicago.edu/black_writing_corpus]
- Archive of Our Own (AO3), an open fanfiction, fanart, fanvideo database containing over 5.6 million works [https://www.archiveofourown.org]
- Tribal Writers Digital Library, including works by American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, with an emphasis on lesser-known works and writers. [https://ualrexhibits.org/tribalwriters/]
- Prozhito Diaries project, a two-century corpus of ego-document from Russia including both elites and “ordinary” citizens, revealing methods of self-creation and conceptualization of the genre of diary writing [https://prozhito.org/]
- Freedom On the Move, a crowdsourced collection of runaway slave advertisements from North America [https://freedomonthemove.org/]
- Hansard parliamentary records from the United Kingdom, 1803-2005; and letters, reports, speech transcripts, and first-hand accounts from the French Revolutionary parliament, 1787-1794 [https://www.english-corpora.org/hansard/] & [https://github.com/frenchrevdata]
- Avalon Project, containing legal, historical, and diplomatic documents, 4th Century BCE – 20th Century, including treaties between the United States government and Native Americans, 1778-1868 [https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ntreaty.asp]
- Records of Indentures and Apprenticeships in the Port of Philadelphia, 1771-1773, containing 4-5,000 contracts for indentured servitude and apprenticeship [https://github.com/AmericanPhilosophicalSociety/Historic-Indenture-Data]
- Racial Lines, containing character dialogue and racial/ethnic identity from 780 Hollywood movies produced between 1970 and 2014 [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KERZQY]