Texts & Tokens

How can computation augment culture as data?

Published

April 9, 2026

In-Class Agenda

Underwood, Ted. “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), June 4, 2015. https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/.

Nguyen, Dong, et al. “How We Do Things with Words: Analyzing Text as Social and Cultural Data.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3 (August 25, 2020): 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.00062.
Underwood, Ted. “Wordcounts Are Amazing.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), February 20, 2013. https://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/.
Walsh, Melanie, and Maria Antoniak. “The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism.” Post45: Peer Reviewed, April 21, 2021. https://post45.org/2021/04/the-goodreads-classics-a-computational-study-of-readers-amazon-and-crowdsourced-amateur-criticism/.
Explore the interactive versions of the graphs https://melaniewalsh.github.io/Goodreads-Classics/.

Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 546-55. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Use the JSTOR link for PDF & Hypothesis https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.51 or use the Manifold Platform link https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/557c453b-4abb-48ce-8c38-a77e24d3f0bd.

Koeser, Rebecca Sutton. “Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math.’” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 40, no. 4 (2015): 376-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454.
Schmidt, Ben. “Sapping Attention: When You Have a MALLET, Everything Looks like a Nail.” Sapping Attention (blog), November 2, 2012. http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-you-have-mallet-everything-looks.html.