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Doc South Data Stewart Varner Digital Scholarship Librarian UNC-Chapel Hill
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Doc South Data. Stewart Varner Digital Scholarship Librarian UNC-Chapel Hill. Distant reading: where distance … is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Stewart VarnerDigital Scholarship Librarian
UNC-Chapel Hill
Distant reading: where distance … is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems.
Franco Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review, January – February 2000
“Part of the explanation for why more historians have not undertaken text mining and topic modeling projects lies in the limited availability of machine readable texts.”
- Stephen Robertson, Director CHMN(http://drstephenrobertson.com/2014/05/23/the-differences-between-digital-history-and-digital-humanities/)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time.
Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co., 1881.
