Digital Feed: Distant Viewing

On February 14, 2019 at noon in the Letterman Building, Room 104, the Digital Scholarship Lab hosted a Digital Feed about the use of computational techniques for analyzing visual culture, including film and video. Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, discussed a digital research tool that she has developed called “Distant Viewing,” a methodological and theoretical framework for the study of large collections of visual materials. Her talk also presented the results of a case study involving Network Era sit-coms by exploring how a distant viewing approach can tell us more about two iconic series: Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.