Arclight Symposium will take place at Concordia University, Montreal from May 13-15, 2015. The symposium brings together media historians, digital humanities scholars, and “big data” critics for a wide-ranging discussion about the advances and pitfalls of digital methods for media history. Arclight
The Arclight Software Application: An In-Development Preview
This past March, Eric Hoyt previewed an early version of the Arclight software application at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Montreal (you can read more about that session, as well as other digital projects at SCMS,
#DHSCMS: Digital Humanities, Tools, and Approaches at SCMS 2015
This conference report is reposted with the kind permission and cooperation of Antenna. This year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Montreal featured a number of excellent panels that were broadly dedicated to “the digital.” Eric Hoyt (@HoytEric)
Digging into the Early Film Credits Dataset: Preliminary Findings, Interpretive Challenges, and Inspired Inquiries
We have some great news: a prototype version of the Arclight app has been completed. While we are continuing to refine it for use by researchers and the broader public, the app is already capable of running fast Scaled Entity
Three Myths of Distant Reading
“To understand literature … we must stop reading books” (Moretti qtd. in Schulz). This provocative statement appears in Kathryn Schultz’s New York Times article about distant reading. To those unfamiliar with digital humanities scholarship and Franco Moretti’s approach of distant