Introduction: Situating Critical Code Studies in the Digital Humanities- Mark C. Marino
- Jeremy Douglass
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An introduction to the field of Critical Code Studies and summary of author contributions.
BASIC FTBALL and Computer Programming for AllEN
Annette Vee traces the historical and cultural context of FTBALL as an example of programming for all.
Any Means Necessary to Refuse Erasure by Algorithm: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Travesty GeneratorEN
This essay presents a close code reading and analysis of computational poetry published by Lillian Yvonne-Bertram in her 2019 collection, Travesty Generator.
Poetry as Code as Interactive Fiction: Engaging Multiple Text-Based Literacies in Scarlet Portrait ParlorEN
This case study aims to elaborate the value of Scarlet Portrait Parlor as a rich example of how poetry, programming, and interactive fiction can be intertwined if not blurred in a single text.
How to Do Things with Deep Learning CodeEN
Our work draws attention to the means by which ordinary users might interact with, and even direct, the behavior of deep learning systems, and by extension works toward demystifying some of the auratic mystery of AI.
Tracing Toxicity Through Code: Towards a Method of Explainability and Interpretability in SoftwareEN
The software explanability deficit in modern societies can be addressed in part by tracing concept formation through code structures.
Nonsense Code: A Nonmaterial Performance- Barry Rountree
- William Condee
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Nonsense shows us the opportunity that nonmaterial performance creates: to decenter text from privileged position and to recenter code as a performance.
The Less Humble ProgrammerEN
This article examines esoteric programming languages (esolangs) along two axes of complexity: humbleness and computational idealism.
The Explainability TurnEN
I suggest recent moves to assuage worries over the opaque and threatening potential of computation, termed explainability, might contribute to tool criticism within digital humanities.
Tool criticism in practice. On methods, tools and aims of computational literary studies- J. Berenike Herrmann
- Anne-Sophie Bories
- Francesca Frontini
- Clèmence Jacquot
- Steffen Pielström
- Simone Rebora
- Geoffrey Rockwell
- Stéfan Sinclair
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This article reflects a rich array of perspectives on tools criticism, arguing that we need tools and methods as a basic common ground on how to carry out fundamental operations of analysis and interpretation within a community.
Slow Listening: Digital Tools for Voice Studies- Marit J. MacArthur
- Lee M. Miller
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This article provides a critical narrative of our research in applying, developing and refining tools for the analysis of pitch and timing patterns in recorded performances of literary texts.
Bias in Big Data, Machine Learning and AI: What Lessons for the Digital Humanities?EN
This article surveys the ways in which issues of race and gender bias emerge in projects involving the use of predictive analytics, big data and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Politics of ToolsEN
If it is true that our tool-building cannot define or predict the specific political arrangements that may later arise, we should perhaps be most circumspect not when we are tempted to imagine our efforts to be neutral, but rather when we imagine our tools to be acts of resistance or outright political activism.
Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies. A Critical SurveyEN
The article sets up a critique of Sentiment Analysis (SA) tools in literary studies, both from a theoretical and a computational point of view.
Unpacking tool criticism as practice, in practiceEN
This paper explores tool criticism – a critical attitude required of digital humanities scholars when working with computational tools and digital infrastructures.
Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets- Ethan Davis
- Christopher Danforth
- Wolfgang Mieder
- Peter Sheridan Dodds
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This article measures temporal changes in the relevance of proverbs within four corpora,differing in kind, scale, and time frame: Millions of books over centuries; thousands of books over centuries; millions of news articles over twenty years; and billions of tweets over a decade.
Historical GIS and Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions- Sune Bechmann Pedersen
- Mathias Johansson
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This article demonstrates the value of scalable reading of historical travel guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading.
An Integral Web-map for the Analysis of Spatial Change over Time in a Complex Built Environment: Digital SamosEN
The paper focuses on a prototype interactive web-map of the monastic site of San Julián de Samos in north-western Spain and offers a response to questions regarding why and how to create an interactive web-map in the field of architectural history through a particular case study.
SEDES: Metrical Position in Greek Hexameter- Stephen A. Sansom
- David Fifield
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Introduction to SEDES, a program that automatically identifies, quantifies, and visualizes the metrical position of lemmata in ancient Greek hexameter poetry.
Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Elements in classical Arabic Poetry- Heyam Abd Alhadi
- Ali Ahmad Hussein
- Tsvi Kuflik
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A novel, rule-based, automatic framework for identifying rhetorical elements in classical Arabic poetry is described.
Language, Materiality, and Digital NeapolitanitáEN
This article explores how usages of Neapolitan-Italian language on YouTube might counter the linguistic and cultural subordination of Neapolitans.
Machine Learning Techniques For Analyzing Inscriptions From Israel- Daiki Tagami
- Michael Satlow
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A comparison of machine learning models to predict the year of inscriptions from tabular data in the Israel/Palestine dataset.