Thursday, November 21 / 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM • LaSalle 2 (Floor 7)

Session 34
Big Data and Its Discontents: Assumptions about Reading History in the Automated Analysis of Texts

Chair: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School for Social Research
Discussant: Daniel Hirschman, Brown University

1. Distant Reading, Novel Models • Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College.

2. Three Forms of Historical Description. Selecting Coverage from the New York Times over Many Decades in Pursuit of Continuity. • Alix Rule, New York University (NYU).

3. Political Discussion and Debate in Narrative Time: The Florentine Consulte e Pratiche, 1376-1378 • John F. Padgett, University of Chicago; Katalin Prajda, University of Chicago; Benjamin Rohr, University of Mannheim; Jonathan Schoots, Stellenbosch University.

4. Relational Templates in Policy Documents • John W. Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara; Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School for Social Research; Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona; Devin Cornell, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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