Preliminary Class Business

• New "discussion forum" for class
• See Tom's recent post
• Readings for next class 

1. Project Team Formation

• Model of the "unconference" using "open-space" protocols (e.g., DH THATCamps)
• Announce any initial project ideas you may have. Then, take about 10-15 minutes (more if needed) to circulate and talk; use the board if you wish to post ideas and interests.
        Class Members:
• Mary Jane Davis 
• Alston D'Silva 
• Thomas Doran
• Hannah Goodwin 
• Claire Ihlendorf
• Amanda Phillips
• Elizabeth Shayne 
• Meaghan Skahan 

• Text Encoding
• Concept of Markup Languages
• Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse," Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 49-84   
• Text Analysis
• Tools
• Explore text analysis tools in Toy Chest (especially TaPOR , TaPOR 2 beta, and WordHoard)
• Larger list of text analysis tools
• Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis, Really?", Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-220  
• Excerpt from Julia Flanders, "Detailism, Digital Texts, and the Problem of Pedantry," TEXT Technology No. 2 (2005): 41-70 - read pp. 54-67
• Topic Modeling & Pattern Recognition
• Clay Templeton, "Topic Modeling in the Humanities: An Overview" (2011)
• Stephen Ramsay, "In Praise of Pattern" (2005) (see also the figures accompanying this article)

• Social Network Analysis
• Micro intro
• Mini intro (with tools)
• Full intro: John Scott, "Social Network Analysis," Sociology 22 (2988): 109-27  
• Optional: Alan Liu, "From Reading to Social Computing" (draft essay; see also figures for essay) [locked resource; course login required]

• Text Analysis for Truth Finding or "Deformance"?
• Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation," New Literary History 30, No. 1 (Winter, 1999): 25-56 
• Jerome J. McGann, "Rethinking Textuality" (also available in print as chap. 5 of his Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web [Palgrave, 2001]
• Stephen Ramsay, "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism," Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 167-174