Judging Words by the Company They Keep | Stats + Stories Episode 269 / by Stats Stories

Collin Jennings is an Assistant Professor of English at Miami University. His work explores how computational methods produce new perspectives on the language and literature of the past. His book Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media and Eighteenth-Century Britain is expected from Stanford University Press in Spring 2024.

Episode Description

The close reading of texts is a methodology that's often used in humanities disciplines, as scholars seek to understand what meanings and ideas a text is designed to communicate. While such close readings have historically been done sans technology, the use of computational methods in textual analysis is a growing area of inquiry. It's also the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Collin Jennings.

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