..., techniques that derive from the fields of computational linguistics and data visualization—can further illuminate these mysteries. It also describes how the unique demands of the archive of slavery pose challenges to the field of digital humanities as it is currently conceived. By contrasting a set of...

...Gary Hall What forms will literary and cultural criticism take in the twenty-first century, given the move toward open access, open data, and open government that is currently being promoted in the name of greater efficiency and transparency? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led...

... through rapid-scanning technology, captured the enormity of the storm, its dynamic cloud structure, and the sharpening of the storm’s eye as the continent dimmed under the setting sun. But despite the complicated process of data gathering and transmission that is involved in meteorological satellite...

...Katherine D. Johnston Abstract This essay analyzes increasingly ubiquitous data collection and posits that metafiction is especially well suited to grapple with the significance of metadata and data surveillance, given its own preoccupation with watching itself watch. Making a critical intervention...

..., audio playback, and visual culture—early magnetic recording materialized. In so doing, the essay offers scholars of both new and old media a sense of how we might better historicize the ostensible permanence and immateriality of contemporary data cultures and their digital economies. “Making the Perfect...

...Jessica Hurley Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 . By Halpern Orit . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . ix, 342 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper, $27.95 . The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism . By Jaffe Aaron . Minneapolis...

...: Contemporary Narratives of Ameri- can Jewishness, 197–99. Grausam, Daniel. Review Essay: “The Way We Talk Now about the Way They Were Then: Recent Work on the ‘Contemporary 389–98. Hall, Gary. “Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven...

... , 83 – 110 . New York : Harcourt, Brace and World . Burdick Anne . 2012 . Digital_Humanities . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gitelman Lisa . 2006 . Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gold Matthew K. , ed. 2012...

... of the “big data” approach to literary history, which he dubs here “macroanalysis.” He provides explana- tions of various techniques for large-scale text analysis, supporting them with examples based on a corpus of Irish American literature. Jockers’s goal is to complement, and perhaps...

... purchases, dunning delinquent customers, and acknowledging new and paid-up subscribers. To gain a better sense of the paper’s subscribership, Gardner exhaustively cross-examined the 3,396 acknowledgments of subscribers with three decades of census data (1850–80). Not incidentally, this inquiry yields...

..., but I will outline reasons supporting the claim that the shift toward private funding in public universities has caused this decline in educational outcomes. In making this argument I will rely particularly on data from William Bowen, Matthew Chingos, and Michael McPher- son’s Crossing the...

... display units” and track the “medleys of data on every screen, all the flowing symbols and alpine charts, the polychrome numbers pulsing” (C, 13). In addition to the screens, which function multiply as conduits for financial data and as televisions and video-recording devices, the limou- sine...