Prof. Craig Saper offered a series of tentative definitions of DH as well as discussed models of reading and literacy in an age of big data sets, algorithmic mining, and AI-chat-bots. Since UCF has generated so much important research in the study of texts and technology, Saper also highlighted a few of earlier UCF faculty projects in an effort to reconcile what look like very different premises about the impact of computation on literacy, intelligence, and culture.
Professor Saper is the Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at UMBC in Baltimore where he continues research begun in texts and technology at UCF on reading machines and changes in literacy.
The talk, which was given in CHDR’s new space, will be avaiable online soon.