Preliminary Business

• Attendance
• Upcoming readings and assignments: see Schedule
• Forming into teams 
• Team formation page 
• Popular culture
• Film/TV
• Genres: Sci-Fi, horror
• Gender
• Underrepresented identities 
• Writing (novels, machine writing, POC writing
• Next steps for teams:

Upcoming team tasks	Upcoming solo tasks
Meet at least once outside class by Monday Feb. 12th
Wed. Feb 14th: in-class project planning workshop	Wed. Feb. 14th:  Digital Analysis (Distant Reading) Assignment due -- Write a 3-4 page essay that uses any tool or method of digital analysis to assist in in making an interpretive argument about a work or collection of works.
[No class Monday Feb. 19th, campus holiday]
Wed. Feb. 21: team presentations of project ideas
	Mon. Feb. 26th: E-Lit Creative Assignment Solo Assignment due -- Conceptualize and demonstrate (at least in partial form) how you would create an E-lit work.

 

 

Today's readings:  (red links are to professor's annotated versions)

• David M. Blei, "Probabilistic Topic Models" (2013)  -- (read only to end of p. 79, before the math begins)
• Ted Underwood, "Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough" (2012)
• Andrew Goldstone's interface for exploring topic models. The Signs model has some extra, later-developed features. Especially helpful in learning how to work with these models is the guide page on "Interpreting the topic model of Signs" 
• topic models of 100 years of literary criticism journals
• topic models of 40 years of the Signs journal of "Women in Culture and Society"
•  Practicum: Topic Modeling  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Today's readings:  (red links are to professor's annotated versions)

• Stephen P. Borgatti,, et al. (2009), "Network Analysis in the Social Sciences"  [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through the campus network or from off-campus through the UCSB VPN or Library Proxy server] 
• Franco Moretti, "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," (Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #2, 2011)  (diagrams)
• Ian Gregory & David Cooper, "Geographical Technologies and the Interdisciplinary Study of Peoples and Cultures of the Past" (2013)  [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through campus network or off-campus through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 35-64 
•  Practicum: Social Network Analysis or Mapping  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page