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The Remaking of Reading:
Data Mining and the Digital Humanities
Matthew Kirschenbaum
University of Maryland
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Google Books
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The Internet Archive
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Amazon.com
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Amazon.com Text Stats
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Amazon.com Concordance
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“Humankind writes more than it can read.”
–Gabriel Zaid
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But is Reading “at Risk”?
“For the first time in modern history, less
than half of the adult population now reads
literature, and these trends reflect a larger
decline in other sorts of reading.”
� NEA, 2004
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But What is Reading?
� “Cover to cover”
� Excerpts, selections
� Grazing, browsing
� Skimming, scanning
� Speed reading
� Reference/look-up
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Thomas Jefferson’s Revolving Bookstand
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“Not Reading”
� “As long as there have been books there have been more books than you could read. In the life of a professional or scholar, reading in the strong sense of "close reading" almost certainly takes a back-seat to finding out what is in a book without actually reading all or even any of it. There are age-old techniques for doing this, some more respectable than others, and they include skimming or eyeballing the text, reading a bibliography or following what somebody else says or writes about it. Knowing how to "not-read" is just as important as knowing how to read.” –Martin Mueller
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Turning the Pages
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Open Content Alliance
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Project Gutenberg
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Literature Online (LION)
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Google Books
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Microsoft
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Amazon
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A Poem on a Page Exists as a Unified Visual Event
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
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But the Codex Atomizes a Text’s Visual Field
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Word Cloud
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TextArc
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TextArc 2
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Nora: “Her breast is fit for pearls . . .”
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Nora: “A full fed Rose . . .”
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Repetitive Strain: Reading The Making of
Americans
� “Everyone then sometime is a whole one to
me, everyone then sometime is a whole one
in me, some of these do not for longs times
make a whole one to me inside me. Some of
them are a whole one in me and then they go
to pieces again inside me, repeating comes
out of them as pieces to me, pieces of a
whole one that only sometimes is a whole
one in me.”
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The Remaking of the Reading of The Making of Americans
Image courtesy of Tanya Clement.
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Mind the Gaps (Chapters 1 and 4 Especially)
Image courtesy of Tanya Clement.
Detail of narrative gaps, chapters 1-6
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Longest Repetition (Highest on Y-Axis) Exactly in Middle
Image courtesy of Tanya Clement.
Repetitions charted for length per location
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Reading the Z-Axis
Images courtesy of Tanya Clement.
Above, repetitions charted by ID,
length and count (A); Right,
repetitions charted by ID, length
and count (B)
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The Text’s Ring Structure
Image courtesy of Tanya Clement.
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Conclusion: “Digitization”
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Questions, Comments?