Categories & Topics

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss assigned materials
• Present on text analysis and data visualization of culture projects

Assigned Materials

• Walsh, Melanie, and Maria Antoniak. “The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism.” Post45, April 21, 2021. https://post45.org/2021/04/the-goodreads-classics-a-computational-study-of-readers-amazon-and-crowdsourced-amateur-criticism/.
• Sinykin, Dan. “How Capitalism Changed American Literature.” Public Books, July 17, 2019. https://www.publicbooks.org/how-capitalism-changed-american-literature/.

Additional Materials

• Rebecca Sutton Koeser (2015) Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 40:4, 376-392, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454
• Walsh, Melanie, and Maria Antoniak. “The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 6, no. 2 (April 20, 2021). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.22221
• 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.