Reading Machines

Author : Stephen Ramsay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093445
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Machines written by Stephen Ramsay and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts. Computers can handle vast amounts of data, allowing for the comparison of texts in ways that were previously too overwhelming for individuals, but they may also assist in enhancing the entirely necessary role of subjectivity in critical interpretation. Reading Machines discusses the importance of this new form of text analysis conducted with the assistance of computers. Ramsay suggests that the rigidity of computation can be enlisted in the project of intuition, subjectivity, and play.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0823433099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Machines written by David A. Adler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many simple machines do you use every day? Probably more than you realize! Machines make work easier— helping break things apart, lift heavy objects, and change the power and direction of force applied to them. In this accessible picture book, celebrated nonfiction author David A. Adler outlines different types of simple machines—wedges, wheels, levers, pulleys, and more—and gives common examples of how we use them every day. Anna Raff's bright illustrations show how simple machines work—and add a dose of fun and humor, too. Two appealing kids and their comical cat use machines to ride see-saws, turn knobs, and even eat apples. Perfect for classrooms or for budding engineers to read on their own, Simple Machines uses clear, simple language to introduce important mechanical vocabulary, and easy-to-understand examples to illustrate how we use machines to solve all kinds of problems. Don't miss David A. Adler and Anna Raff's other science collaborations—including Light Waves; Magnets Push, Magnets Pull; and Things That Float and Things That Don't.

Author : White Eric White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474441513
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic written by White Eric White and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of readingReading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown's 'reading machine' and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change.

Author : Erin Seagraves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606177273
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Neighbors and Their Simple Machines written by Erin Seagraves and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Byron Barton
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0694001902
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machines at Work written by Byron Barton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘With the call of ‘Hey, you guys! Let’s get to work,’ women and men shoulder drills and picks, board cranes and cement mixers, and set their equipment bulldozing and steamrolling across vibrant page spreads. Barton generates the excitement of road and building construction for young sidewalk engineers.’ —BL. 1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC) 1987 Children's Books (NY Public Library)

Author : Audrey Watters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254606X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Machines written by Audrey Watters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.

Author : Manuel Portela
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019469
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripting Reading Motions written by Manuel Portela and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing.

Author : Shawna Ross
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137595698
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Modernism with Machines written by Shawna Ross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature. From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture. With the publication of a variety of volumes that define and debate the digital humanities, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary history. Each of the case studies in this book emphasizes literary interpretation and engages with histories of textuality and new media, rather than dwelling on technical minutiae. Reading Modernism with Machines thereby intervenes critically in ongoing debates within modernist studies, while also exploring exciting new directions for the digital humanities—ultimately reflecting on the conjunctions and disjunctions between the technological cultures of the modernist era and our own digital present.

Author : Jennifer Liberts
Publisher : Step Into Reading
ISBN 13 : 1101940263
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monster Phonics (Blaze and the Monster Machines): 12 Step Into Reading Books written by Jennifer Liberts and published by Step Into Reading. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Join Blaze and the monster machines for Monster phonics! Blaze, AJ, Gabby, and their friends roar into reading in this fun and educational phonics book set."--Container.

Author : Grant Hamilton
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178535325X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Failing Machines written by Grant Hamilton and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Failing Machines offers the first full-length discussion of the relationship between speculative realism and literary criticism. In identifying some of the most significant coordinates of speculative-realist thought, this book asks what the implications might be for the study of literature. It is argued that the first casualty might well be the form of the traditional essay.