This site includes materials for discussion on Day 4 of the UBC Recurring Questions of Technology Summer Institute.
This morning we’ll consider methods for knowledge diffusion and analysis afforded by digital media. We’ll take up N.K. Hayles’s call for a media-specific analysis of digital knowledge artifacts. We’ll also consider the appeal of Franco Moretti, a World Literature scholar and Digital Humanist who argues that methods of interpreting and visualizing patterns in large digital textual corpora – what he terms “distant reading” – may afford a more inclusive way of engaging and theorizing knowledge than previous approaches.
Institute Site: http://eplt.educ.ubc.ca/events/recurring-questions-technology