This module will introduce you to document driven research methods and walk you through the process of collecting and interpreting this data. Before you review the tutorial materials, read the following articles, which provide an overview of document-driven research methods.

    • Bénel, Aurélien and Christophe Lejeune, Christophe. “Humanities 2.0: Documents, Interpretation and Intersubjectivity in the Digital Age.” International Journal of Web Based Communities 5 (2019): 562-576.
    • Drouin, Jeffrey. “Close- and Distant-Reading Modernism: Network Analysis, Text Mining, and Teaching the Little Review.” The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies:Special Issue Visualizing Periodical Networks 5, 1 (2014): 110-135.
    • Gitelman, Lisa. “Introduction: Paper Knowledge.” In Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, 1-20. Duke UP, 2014.

After reading the above articles, review the following video, created by Dr. Louise Kane. Afterward, you should be prepared to complete document driven data Task 1 and Task 2.