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Class 4 Notes

1. Text Analysis

•   Three essays by humanities computing scholars urging that the paradigm of text analysis move beyond the "concordance":

   

  • Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis, Really?" Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-220 [available as .pdf file through UCSB Library proxy access]
  • Julia Flanders, "Detailism, Digital Texts, and the Problem of Pedantry," TEXT Technology No. 2 (2005): 41-70 [available as .pdf file]
  • Stephen Ramsay, "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism," Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 167-174

    [available as .pdf file through UCSB Library proxy access]

     

      

• Definition of "concordance"
• Examples:
  • Index Thomisticus (by Roberto Busa, begun in 1946)
  • Strong's Concordance
• TAPor 
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• WordHoard
• WordNet Vocabulary Helper
• The Agrippa Files
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• Further resources on text analysis:
  • "Method in text-analysis: An introduction" (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, U. London)

2. Game Design

•  Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation" (find passage starting "our deformations do not flee")
• Context:
  • Video game sales
  • 2007 movie box office sales
  • Game Studies journal
  • "Game theory"

   

   

  Model	Paradigm	Design
  Simulation	Schema	Demo
  Code	[Cognitive Map, etc.]	Game
  Representation	Form	Identity/Meaning

• IDEO design process
• Ivanhoe Game