Readings

• Jerome McGann “Introduction: Texts and Textualities” “The Textual Condition” and “How to Read a Book” McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1991. Print. Princeton Studies in Culture/power/history. [PDF in Commons Group]
• Walsh, Marcus. “Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism.” The Book: A Global History. Edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. & H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. [PDF in Commons Group – in the same file as the reading below.]
• Gardiner, Eileen and Ronald G. Musto. “The Electronic Book.” The Book: A Global History. Edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. & H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. [PDF in Commons Group- in the same file as the reading above.]
• Nancy K. Miller, “Re-reading as Woman: The Body in Practice” [PDF in Commons Group]
• Gentzkow, Kelly, and Taddy “Text as Data” Journal of Economic Literature 2019, 57(3), 535-574. [https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20181020] [PDF in Commons Group]
  • This reading is both long and challenging, especially for those who do not have a strong computational social science background. To help get through it, try to focus on creating a list of vocabulary terms that are introduced when we start thinking of text as a form of data. What kind of things do social scientists do with text when it is turned into data? What are the kinds of studies that are possible when text is turned into computational data? 
• Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text” [PDF in Commons] 

Notebook

• Copy the Week 3 Notebook on importing and working with text from the GitHub Repository into your Google Colab Folder and complete the assignment.
• You may also want to read along in the first chapter of the NLTK Book