Tag: distant reading
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Distant reading or missed-it reading?
The concept of distant reading is seen as the “improper way” to read a text, according to many scholars of literature. Essentially, distant ready is a way to encompass and learn from many texts without closely reading them. Of course there is the practical reason for distant reading; it takes considerably less time and can…
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Distant Reading: Understanding and Comprehending
Distant reading is a tool that is becoming more popular, as well as more fascinating and more advanced. As Edward Whitley says, “…the virtue of information visualization is that it can make complex data sets more accessible than they might otherwise be…” (188). Distant readings allow us to draw comparisons between different words and events…
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Distant Reading Can Give the Reader an Overview of the Subject Matter
Distant reading is not reading from far away, but rather reading the themes of a work. The difference between reading an article and getting the distant reading of an article is similar to looking through a microscope versus a telescope. A microscope gets the details and exact information of a document, while a telescope gives…
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Is Powell an eligible Moravian? On Distant Reading
Distant Reading is basically a “machine reading”. Using effective algorithms, we can “read” documents in a smart and statistical way. The easiest two methods of distant reading are 1. finding the most frequent words 2. finding the connections between most frequent used words. By doing those research processes, we can “read” documents from different angles.…
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Distant Reading and its Significance
While at first it may be difficult to grasp the concept of distant reading, as it can appear confusing or meaningless, it is a very useful tool for analyzing works of literature from a far. Distant reading can help to evaluate the trend of individual words, as seen on Ngram, or compare readings by determining…
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On Distant Reading
In class last week we discussed the differences between distant reading and close reading and how they can complement each other as we analyze texts. Clearly the mass digitization of libraries and archives has given the reader access to previously under accessed resources. With tools such as Voyant a reader can now perform new ways…