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DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv65swr0.9
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The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books

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“…There is an alternative view of the future, one that I find not only challenging but also kind of inspiring. Ramsay (2010) recently wrote an article called, provocatively, "The hermeneutics of screwing around: Or, what you do with a million books" [9]. He makes the superficially obvious statement that, now more than ever, no one is ever going to come even close to reading everything.…”
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“…There is an alternative view of the future, one that I find not only challenging but also kind of inspiring. Ramsay (2010) recently wrote an article called, provocatively, "The hermeneutics of screwing around: Or, what you do with a million books" [9]. He makes the superficially obvious statement that, now more than ever, no one is ever going to come even close to reading everything.…”
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“…As digital humanities scholar Stephen Ramsay states, "That much information probably exceeds our ability to create reliable guides to it." 20 Oral history, by its nature, is a source with an informed and purposed guide. Interviewers are accustomed to positioning themselves between research question and narrator, or inquiry and subject-a task that calls for a more reliable guide than we currently possess in the digital age.…”
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“…Rockwell and Sinclair describe two princi ples that they deem important when engaging with automatic text analy sis: "Don't expect too much from the tools [and] [t]ry things out". 34 The first is about perspective. "Most tools at our disposal have weak or nonexistent semantic capabilities; they count, compare, track, and represent words, but they do not produce meaning -we do."…”
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