"As a worker-run newsroom that will rely heavily on audience input to shape our coverage of the city, we’re providing information WITH representation (put that on a license plate)." The 51st News is live! 51st.news/dc-local-new...

What's in a name? DC local news done differently

Introducing The 51st, local news by and for D.C. residents.

I think normalization matters. According to the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, for the first time in 2022, it became more likely than not for Americans to report not having read any book in the preceding year. (And "report" is the key word!) Recent talk on this: fredner.org/reading/

On further thought, maybe the kids are NOT alright. Just read an anonymous course evaluation, full of INDIGNATION, because there had been in this course a reading assignment for EACH class session. The horrific criminality of it! EACH class session. Could we try to normalize reading, please?

For #dh#opened#OERyoutu.be/DPIpxWvWsS0@johnobrien.bsky.social#opened24

An Overview of Literature in Context Features

YouTube video by Tonya Howe

"In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...

GitHub - bamman-group/ca-classification-data: Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics"

Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data

🥳 We're a little late to the party, but better late than never: Thrilled to announce that the Stanford Literary Lab now has a Bluesky account! Stay tuned for news about our ongoing projects and lab activities! #DigitalHumanities#CLS#DigitalLiteraryStudies#Fiction#LitLab

Might as well have some fun too! ASCII Weather text-only wttr.in My local NYC weather: .-. Light rain, mist ( ). 62 °F (___(__) ↙ 14 mph ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘

“Write faster, prof-scum! LLM needs a new pair of shoes!” (Guess I called this one; page shots are from my June 2024 article in POETICS TODAY; only mistake is I thought we still had another year or two.)

Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143