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Mark Olsen, "Text as Social Object: Ways to Read at Different Distances"

When	Friday, Feb 28, 2020, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Campus location	Communications Building (CMU)
Campus room	202
Event Types	Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors	Sponsored by Textual and Digital Studies, with support from French & Italian Studies and the Simpson Center’s Digital Humanities Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Description	The past decade has seen the development of models of distant reading as a way to leverage the emergence of large scale data sets. In this talk, Mark Olsen will outline some different ways that texts can be read at a distance, which can rely on non-textual data, and will describe some of his current work to facilitate a return to close, or at least closer, reading of texts in a big data environment. Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) on big data and textual reuse, 3:30pm in Communications 202. Simpson Center for the Humanities Digital Humanities Annual Lecture; part of the Material Texts Colloquium Series organized through the Textual and Digital Studies Program; Series; co-sponsored by UW Libraries, and French and Italian Studies For more information about the Material Texts Colloquium series see: depts.washington.edu…

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