Digitale Lehre
In literary studies, the digital humanities approach investigates the emergence of literary history. To achieve this, vast amounts of texts and contextual data must be analyzed. Therefore, statistics and natural language processing are the methods of choice. Since data-based literary studies necessarily assume that text meaning cannot be understood without information about text reception, the very act of reading must be considered. The cognitive processing of artworks such as texts becomes a research domain of its own right. The rapidly growing research area of cognitive humanities provides not only experimental data but also a range of challenging conceptual problems that we want to tackle in this seminar. In the first part, we reconsider the digital humanities approach from the viewpoint of reception analysis. The second part comprises recent studies that enable us to understand key categories of cognitive humanities like cultural attitudes, attention, narrative fallacy, and judgment. From this background, we will, in the last part, discuss some big questions at stake here.
This course is taught in English.
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Digital Teaching
In literary studies, the digital humanities approach investigates the emergence of literary history. To achieve this, vast amounts of texts and contextual data must be analyzed. Therefore, statistics and natural language processing are the methods of choice. Since data-based literary studies necessarily assume that text meaning cannot be understood without information about text reception, the very act of reading must be considered. The cognitive processing of artworks such as texts becomes a research domain of its own right. The rapidly growing research area of cognitive humanities provides not only experimental data but also a range of challenging conceptual problems that we want to tackle in this seminar. In the first part, we reconsider the digital humanities approach from the viewpoint of reception analysis. The second part comprises recent studies that enable us to understand key categories of cognitive humanities like cultural attitudes, attention, narrative fallacy, and judgment. From this background, we will, in the last part, discuss some big questions at stake here.
This course is taught in English.
- Lehrende: Thomas Weitin