Book,
Hermeneutica : computer-assisted interpretation in the humanities
MIT Press, (2016)
Abstract
The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes' Discourse on Method . But scholarly practices in the humanities are changing as older forms of communal inquiry are combined with modern research methods enabled by the Internet, accessible computing, data availability, and new media. 'Hermeneutica' introduces text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices. It offers theoretical chapters about text analysis, presents a set of analytical tools (called Voyant) that instantiate the theory, and provides example essays that illustrate the use of these tools.
