A cautionary note about "distant reading" [#DH]

Last thing I’ll say is that we often forget that “distant reading” originally (in 2000) meant the project of synthesis & collaboration among scholars of diff periods & national lits. Subsequently, we/I were fooled into thinking computation could replace that human-achieved scale. https://t.co/JhbNulBuJ1

— Ryan Heuser (@quadrismegistus) August 13, 2021