Skim before discussion:
Distant Horizons (Underwood) 4 points: the risk of forgetting pleasure; the risk of preoccupation with technology; the missing curricular foundation; an addiction to distant reading - in Drive
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Melissa Parham
Educational Technology and the Humanities: a History of Control
Blog 4 requires you to transfer your knowledge from what you have learned this semester. Please write a letter to an older person in your family in which you explain in plain, non-technical language what you learned this semester and how it is important to you (and to them, to your country, etc).
Here are some ideas of topics you could address in your letter (you do not need to discuss them all): How has the promise of speed reading been fulfilled by computer-assisted analysis? Why are computational notebooks important today? Has the notion of surface reading changed the way you think about close reading (or reading, in general)? How is computer-assisted reading (differently) useful for texts you know well vs for texts you don't know at all? Is there something that you miss about slow reading? Should students of the future be able to include visualizations in their writing? In what domains do you think surface reading can help the student of tomorrow? What archives do you wish existed like Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive?
If you would like to include anything in your final blog (pictures, hand written notes in any language, drawings), feel free, provided that it gets across the point.
lab work -- preparing final work (in pairs)
I can accommodate virtual office hours during the next week that will be off due to National Day.