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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Distant reading"”.
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Auditing Canadian Curricula for the Prevalence of Personal-Finance Related Terms Using Text-Frequency and Distant-Reading Software Tools
This quantitative research study explores each set of provincial curriculum documents (save for Quebec) for the frequency of user-selected personal-finance based terms. The data from each province is compared and examined to answer: which provincial curriculum mentions user-selected …
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Rational Creatures: Using Vector Space Models to Examine Independence in the Novels of Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson (1800–1820)
… led to a proliferation of studies that apply ‘distant’ reading to textual data. There is an uneasy relationship between the increased use of computational methods and their application to literary studies. Much of the current literature has focused on the exploration of large corpora. However, …
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… within debates surrounding modes of “close” and “distant reading” (Moretti 2000) as they are played out in both the fields of world literature and digital literary studies, this work proposes an alternative digital humanities approach to the study of world literature to the modes of “distant …
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A Field of Relations: A Mixed Analysis of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” with Voyant, a Text Analysis Tool
… tools of text analysis, which is a method of distant reading. In this paper, I provide a mixed analysis of “Recitatif” through close reading and text analysis via Voyant, a digital tool. I concentrate on the recitative device, how it facilitates the message of the story, and how the results …
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"What's in a Name": Speech Prefixes in Early English Printed Drama, 1570-1625
… Printed Drama, 1570-1625 combines methods of distant reading common to the field of Digital Humanities with more traditional close reading practices to argue that speech prefixes are not only able influence the way readers view specific characters and plays, but they also have the ability to …
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Reading Law's Great Unread: Qualitative Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence and the New Empirical Legal Research
… this dissertation explores how the methods of “distant reading” can be used to develop new classes of critical insights about law. After situating the project theoretically, this dissertation reports on a series of new computational studies about Canadian law. Chapter 1 measures Canadian …
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Expanding the Frame: Realising Engagement Through an Interactive, Visualisation-Based Search in Digital Humanities Research Environments
… have begun to explore concepts behind Moretti’s Distant Reading and Jocker’s Macroanalysis. While the study of these types of visualisations has largely focused on their ability to provide higher-level insights, little exploration has been conducted concerning their effectiveness within the …
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Rhetoric Beyond the Digital/Physical Divide: The Internet and Digital and Physical Hybridity
… discourses, with supplementary methods including distant reading and interface analysis. In the first case study, I consider a social media app that leveraged smartphone geolocation technology to situate anonymous online discourse within physical locations and analyze responses to the service and …
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Europapolitische Themen in Wahlkämpfen: Chancen und Herausforderungen der Anwendung von Blended Reading-Verfahren für die Europäische Integrationsforschung
… und theoriegeleiteten Analysen oder Close und Distant Reading. Allerdings existiert in der Politikwissenschaft bislang kein Best Practice-Workflow für die Analyse großer Textdatenmengen webbasierter Daten, mit dem intersubjektive Nachvollziehbarkeit und Reliabilität im Forschungsprozess …
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River Banks, Rabbit Holes and Railway Children: Charting Series of Children's Classics
‘The classic’ is a muddled, confused and conflicted term in children’s literature scholarship and educational policy. This thesis frames an analysis of the classic through a focus on ‘the series’, which is a dominant yet overlooked publishing phenomenon that aims to reproduce and repackage classic …