{"id":16817,"date":"2024-03-21T03:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compare-these-two-readings-and-see-how-they-change-data-nowadays-as-well-as-the-problems-faced-back-then\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T03:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:54:03","slug":"compare-these-two-readings-and-see-how-they-change-data-nowadays-as-well-as-the-problems-faced-back-then","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compare-these-two-readings-and-see-how-they-change-data-nowadays-as-well-as-the-problems-faced-back-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare these two readings and see how they change data nowadays, as well as the problems faced back then."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the first part of the course we are thinking about the ways in which people in the twentieth and<\/span>
twenty-first centuries, and their counterparts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, have<\/span>
dreamt about data, its structures, its capabilities, its potential, and ways in which we as human<\/span>
beings can most effectively interact with it, whether with the aid of computers in the modern<\/span>
communications age, or with the aid of thinking structures in the early modern age. The aim of<\/span>
this essay is to compare and contrast 2 of our readings from this part of the semester to articulate<\/span>
the particular problems and questions that they are raising about data, and how and why those ideas<\/span>
relate to our present-day ideas about networked information and data analysis.<\/span>
You have a lot of freedom in terms of the angle you take for this essay – – you don\u2019t have<\/span>
to, and indeed probably cannot, comprehensively cover all of each reading which you engage with.<\/span>
Instead, pick a particular aspect or question within that reading and examine it very thoroughly<\/span>
with detailed readings of relevant passages to explain your interpretation of what the reading is<\/span>
saying, how it is saying it, why, and what that means. You will do this for each of your readings<\/span>
and compare your findings about the two. How do they relate to one another? Do your writers<\/span>
dream similar dreams about data, or are they in opposition? Do their ideas relate to our present-<\/span>
day concerns and hopes about data and networked information? If so, how? You can write a<\/span>
traditional analytical paper, or, if you like, you can take a creative approach and write your paper<\/span>
as a dialogue between your two authors. You can and should bring in your own opinions and ideas,<\/span>
linking these closely and clearly to your readings. You do not have to agree with either of your<\/span>
authors (though you are free to do so).<\/span>
Our end result should be a paper which clearly articulates the ideas of reading 1, reading<\/span>
2, compares these, and provides your own interpretation and thoughts about those ideas and their<\/span>
relationship to the present day. Our reason for doing this is that you are shortly going to embark<\/span>
on projects combining computation and humanistic studies, so I want us to think about what<\/span>
computation might mean, both the good and the bad, so that we do this work with intention and<\/span>
thought.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Instructions<\/span>
1.<\/span> <\/span>Choose 2 of our readings, one from the twentieth- or twenty-first centuries, and one either<\/span>
from or about the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries [so, Sawday\u2019s article would count<\/span>
here] (I am negotiable on this point, but check in with me)<\/span>
2.<\/span> <\/span>Identify a clear idea or set of ideas about data\/information, data\/information analysis, or<\/span>
networked information within each reading, and articulate that analytically by including<\/span>
short quotations from the text in question and explaining what these quotations mean.<\/span>
3.<\/span> <\/span>Compare your findings about the 2 readings.<\/span>
4.<\/span> <\/span>Include your own argumentative position about each reading, and also about how these do<\/span>
or do not relate to modern ideas, questions, concerns, and\/or fears about information,<\/span>
networked information, and\/or data analysis.<\/span>
5.<\/span> <\/span>Sample topics might include but are not limited to: the relationship between humans and<\/span>
computers or methods of data analysis; what is knowledge and how and why do we<\/span>
produce\/access\/seek it\/store it; access to information; equity in information access and\/or<\/span>
data analysis.<\/span><\/div>\n

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YOU CAN WRITE IN FIRST PERSON<\/span><\/div>\n

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Here are the sources you will write on and cite:<\/span><\/div>\n

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Jonathan Sawday, \u2018Towards the Renaissance Computer\u2019 in <\/span><\/span>The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge and Technology in the First Age of Print <\/span><\/em>ed. by Jonathan Sawday and Neil Rhodes (London: Routledge, 2000),<\/span> <\/span><\/em>pp.29-44<\/span>
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Extracts from Vannevar Bush, \u2018As We May Think\u2019, <\/span><\/span>The Atlantic <\/span><\/em>(July, 1945) – – read \u2018Introduction\u2019, and Sections <\/span><\/span>1, 3, 6, 7, and 8<\/strong>
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