Theoretical Grounding for Computer Assisted Scholarly Text Reading (CASTR)

Digital humanities technology has mainly focused its development on scholarly text digitalization and text analysis. It is only recently that attention has been paid to the activity of reading in a computerized environment. Some main causes of this have been the advent of the e-book but more importa...

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Published inScholarly and research communication Vol. 3; no. 2
Main Author Meunier, Jean-Guy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing Press Simon Fraser University 02.09.2012
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Digital humanities
Digitization
Reading
Text analysis
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Summary:Digital humanities technology has mainly focused its development on scholarly text digitalization and text analysis. It is only recently that attention has been paid to the activity of reading in a computerized environment. Some main causes of this have been the advent of the e-book but more importantly the massive enterprise of text digitalization (such as Gallica, Google Books, World Wide library, and others). In this article, we analyze, in a very exploratory manner, three main dimensions of computer assister scholarly reading of text: the cognitive, the computational and the software dimension. The cognitive dimension of scholarly reading pertains not the nature of reading as a psychological activity but to the complex interpretative act of going through argumentations, narrations, descriptions, demonstrations, dialogues, themes, etc. that are contained in a text.
ISSN:1923-0702
1923-0702
DOI:10.22230/src.2012v3n2a73