The methodology used for digital textual analysis assumes that texts acquire meaning not in isolation, but as part of a system, in other terms, a large corpus. In large digital textual corpora, elements can appear repeatedly but human reading might overlook because of focusing solely on detail and linearity. Macroanalysis, machine reading, or distant reading, in the words of Matthew Jockers, Stephen Ramsay, or Franco Moretti, brings in computational and algorithmic elements and applies quantitative methods that do not exclude qualitative approaches: computers process data firstly, and then (ideally) humans read and interpret it as text.
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