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	While the digital environment has given way to a range of new and useful means of textual analysis how does a statistical critique of literature and resources fit within traditional approaches? Do the possibilities for digital texts surpass or fall short of traditional approaches to printed materials?		While the digital environment has given way to a range of new and useful means of textual analysis how does a statistical critique of literature and resources fit within traditional approaches? Do the possibilities for digital texts surpass or fall short of traditional approaches to printed materials?
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Distance Reading Articles

Cohen "Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers"

Cohen "In 500 Billion Words..."

Crane "What Do You Do with a Million Books"

Moretti Graphs, Maps, Trees

Distance Reading Discussion Questions

Discussion Question 1:

To start out this week's debate we thought we'd begin with a couple of general questions. With the advent of the digital environment a much larger number of texts and resources have been made available. Practically speaking, is there a point at which there is simply too much available to be able to sort through - in other words, is there ever a point in which there is so much information, or the scale of it is so large, that it in fact impedes effective research?

Discussion Question 2:

While the digital environment has given way to a range of new and useful means of textual analysis how does a statistical critique of literature and resources fit within traditional approaches? Do the possibilities for digital texts surpass or fall short of traditional approaches to printed materials?

Distance Reading Responses

     ** More questions to be posted in the coming days **

Please post your answers and comments here....