The term ‘distant reading’ resonates across DH: It is played on in book titles (Distant Horizons, Underwood 2019) and adapted to new fields (‘Distant Viewing’, Arnold and Tilton 2019). It spurs alternative formulations (‘Scalable Reading’, Mueller 2012) and is present in mainstream media (“What is Distant Reading?”, Schulz 2011). It is a popular…[Read more]

Several theoretical models have been proposed for genre, such as the Aristotelian scholastic taxonomy, the family resemblance and the prototype theory. However, these models lack of empirical applications to real examples of genres. This proposal is the culmination of a series of analysis, presenting a theoretical, computational and visual…[Read more]

We present results of a project examining the application of text visualization in the context of religious studies and sociology. Our goal is to analyze and compare the online communication of various religious directions. For this contribution we focus on the visualization of collocations for specific religious and spiritual key concepts. As a…[Read more]

Memes are a popular part of today’s online culture reflecting current developments in pop-culture, politics or sports and are created and shared in large scale on a daily basis. We present first results of an ongoing project about the study of online-memes via computational Distant Reading methods. We focus on the meme type of image macros. I…[Read more]