http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-essential-introductory-theorizations-of-the-model Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: What are essential introductory theorizations of the Model? en-US Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:06:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-essential-introductory-theorizations-of-the-model#post-2036 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:06:52 +0000 Michael Ullyot 2036@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I'd like to ask both a research and a teaching question, about the most productive *and* accessible theorizations of the Model in artistic, scientific, and in-between disciplines like ours.</p> <p>I'm teaching a course (this fall) in my university's interdisciplinary arts-and-science undergraduate program on the very broad theme of 'representation.' I'm comparing the relationships between scientific theories, artistic representations, and quantitative/tractable models of research objects (in any field) that make them computationally addressable. </p> <p>The question is this: which essays or articles would best introduce these advanced undergraduates to the third category? </p> <p>Willard McCarty's essay, "Modeling: a study in words and meanings" from *A companion to digital humanities* (2004), is cited in Matt Burton's "Joy of Topic Modeling" blog post last month &lt; <a href="http://mcburton.net/blog/joy-of-tm/" rel="nofollow">http://mcburton.net/blog/joy-of-tm/</a> &gt;. This seems the natural place to start, but I wonder if readers have used other texts to induce intelligent non-specialists to join, or at least to grasp, our field.</p> <p>These are my other texts:<br /> * David Bohm, *On Creativity*<br /> * Virginia Woolf, *The Waves* (and Stephen Ramsay's work on the same)<br /> * Richard Dawkins, *The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing*</p> <p>With thanks,<br /> Michael Ullyot </p>