Quantitative Text Analysis: Intersections with Feminism, Postcolonialism, Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory

moderated discussion / birds of a feather (BoF)
Authorship
  1. 1. Katherine Bode

    Australian National University

  2. 2. Alison Hedley

    McGill University

  3. 3. Natalie M. Houston

    University of Massachusetts - Lowell

  4. 4. Anouk Lang

    University of Edinburgh

  5. 5. Emily Murphy

    University of British Columbia

  6. 6. Rianna Walcott

    King's College London

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This forum brings insights from bodies of theory attentive to the material effects of hierarchies and difference - including but not limited to feminism, critical race theory, queer theory, and postcolonialism - to bear on quantitative text analysis. It seeks to bring into view the power relations that inform processes of corpus construction and that underlie the computational models, analytical frameworks and platform architectures through which born-digital texts are obtained. Questions the forum will open up include how the positivistic claims of objectivity associated with quantitative text analysis might be resisted and subverted, how quantitative text analysis might interrogate and dismantle hierarchies rather than reinforcing them, and the kinds of infrastructural, institutional or systemic changes that are needed to instantiate alternative modes of text analysis.

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Conference Info

In review

ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO

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