Is it Wrong to Analyze Culture with Google Books?

Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.”  She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an […]

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August 8, 2011

Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.”  She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an historian.” Read more at Miller-McCune

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