“Although the movement to deliver news through games is still a fledgling one, it has attracted the interest of academics, media, and advocates all drawn to a perhaps surprising promise: that video games, when done well, have potential to do something new for our understanding of world events.”
Tag: 07.03.11
Should Chicago’s Great Opera Company Be Performing Musicals?
“By venturing down the road of Broadway musicals in the search for ‘new’ audiences, the Lyric is turning away from its principal mission and diverting its focus, risking damage to its reputation and turning off scores of longtime subscribers in the process.”
Understanding Literature Through “Distant” Reading
“As its name suggests, the Lit Lab tackles literary problems by scientific means: hypothesis-testing, computational modeling, quantitative analysis. Similar efforts are currently proliferating under the broad rubric of ‘digital humanities,’ but Franco Moretti’s approach is among the more radical. He advocates what he terms ‘distant reading’: understanding literature not by studying particular texts, but by aggregating and analyzing massive amounts of data.”