DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: 2016

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class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000259/000259.html">Language DNA: Visualizing a Language Decomposition </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Adam James Bradley, University of Waterloo; Travis Kirton, University of Calgary; Mark Hancock, University of Waterloo; Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000259en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000259en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000259en"> In the Digital Humanities, there is a fast-growing body of research that uses data visualization to explore the structures of language. While new techniques are proliferating they still fall short of offering whole language experimentation. We provide a mathematical technique that maps words and symbols to ordered unique numerical values, showing that this mapping is one-to-one and onto. We demonstrate this technique through linear, planar, and volumetric visualizations of data sets as large as the Oxford English Dictionary and as small as a single poem. The visualizations of this space have been designed to engage the viewer in the analogic practice of comparison already in use by literary critics but on a scale inaccessible by other means. We studied our visualization with expert participants from many fields including English studies, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Graphics. We present our findings from this study and discuss both the criticisms and validations of our approach. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Language%20DNA%3A%20Visualizing%20a%20Language%20Decomposition&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Bradley&rft.aufirst=Adam James&rft.au=Adam James%20Bradley&rft.au=Travis%20Kirton&rft.au=Mark%20Hancock&rft.au=Sheelagh%20Carpendale"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000269/000269.html">The Archive as Repertoire: Transience and Sustainability in Digital Archives </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Miguel Escobar Varela, National University of Singapore</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000269en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000269en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000269en"> Digital archives change more quickly than traditional ones: they are adaptable and transient. This has advantages and disadvantages; digital archives can disappear from sight almost instantly but they can also be easily safeguarded and restored. Borrowing the critical vocabulary of performance studies, digital archives could thus be understood as “repertoires” rather than traditional archives. By treating digital archives as repertoires, this article explores different threats and opportunities presented by their volatile nature and makes policy and technical recommendations on how to ensure their relevance and sustainability. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The%20Archive%20as%20Repertoire%3A%20Transience%20and%20Sustainability%20in%20Digital%20Archives&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Varela&rft.aufirst=Miguel Escobar&rft.au=Miguel Escobar%20Varela"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000270/000270.html">Digital library search preferences amongst historians and genealogists: British History Online user survey</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Adam Crymble, University of Hertfordshire</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000270en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000270en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000270en"> This paper presents the results of a study of 1,439 users of British History Online (BHO). BHO is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a principal focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. The collection currently contains 1,250 volumes, and 120,000 web pages of material. During a website rebuild in 2014, the project team asked its registered users about their preferences for searching and browsing the content in the collection. Respondents were asked about their current search and browsing behaviour, as well as their receptiveness to new navigation options, including fuzzy searching, proximity searching, limiting search to a subset of the collection, searching by publication metadata, and searching entities within the texts such as person names, place names, or footnotes. The study provides insight into the unique and often converging needs of the site’s academic and genealogical users, noting that the former tended to respond in favour of options that gave them greater control over the search process, whereas the latter generally opted for options to improve the efficacy of targeted keyword searching. Results and recommendations are offered. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Digital%20library%20search%20preferences%20amongst%20historians%20and%20genealogists%3A%20British%20History%20Online%20user%20survey&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Crymble&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft.au=Adam%20Crymble"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000268/000268.html">Machine Reading the <cite class="italic">Primeros Libros</cite></a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Hannah Alpert-Abrams, University of Texas at Austin</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000268en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000268en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000268en"> Early modern printed books pose particular challenges for automatic transcription: uneven inking, irregular orthographies, radically multilingual texts. As a result, modern efforts to transcribe these documents tend to produce the textual gibberish commonly known as “dirty OCR” (Optical Character Recognition). This noisy output is most frequently seen as a barrier to access for scholars interested in the computational analysis or digital display of transcribed documents. This article, however, proposes that a closer analysis of dirty OCR can reveal both historical and cultural factors at play in the practice of automatic transcription. To make this argument, it focuses on tools developed for the automatic transcription of the <cite class="italic">Primeros Libros</cite> collection of sixteenth century Mexican printed books. By bringing together the history of the collection with that of the OCR tool, it illustrates how the colonial history of these documents is embedded in, and transformed by, the statistical models used for automatic transcription. It argues that automatic transcription, itself a mechanical and practical tool, also has an interpretive effect on transcribed texts that can have practical consequences for scholarly work. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Machine%20Reading%20the%20Primeros%20Libros&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Alpert-Abrams&rft.aufirst=Hannah&rft.au=Hannah%20Alpert-Abrams"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000265/000265.html">Information access in the art history domain: Evaluating a federated search engine for Rembrandt research </a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Suzan Verberne, Radboud University; Lou Boves, Radboud University; Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000265en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000265en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000265en"> The art history domain is an interesting case for search engines tailored to the digital humanities, because the domain involves different types of sources (primary and secondary; text and images). One example of an art history search engine is RemBench, which provides access to information in four different databases related to the life and works of Rembrandt van Rijn. In the current paper, RemBench serves as a case to (1) discover the requirements for a search engine that is geared towards the art history domain and (2) make recommendations for the design of user observation studies for evaluating the usability of a search engine in the art history domain, and in digital humanities at large. A user observation study with nine participants confirms that the combination of different source types is crucial in the art history domain. With respect to the user interface, both free-text search and facet filtering are actively used by the observed participants but we observe strong individual preferences. Our key recommendation for specialized search engines is the use of faceted search (free text search combined with filtering) in combination with federated search (combining multiple resources behind one interface). In addition, the user study shows that the usability of domain-specific search engines can successfully be evaluated using a thinking-aloud protocol with a small number of participants. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Information%20access%20in%20the%20art%20history%20domain%3A%20Evaluating%20a%20federated%20search%20engine%20for%20Rembrandt%20research&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Verberne&rft.aufirst=Suzan&rft.au=Suzan%20Verberne&rft.au=Lou%20Boves&rft.au=Antal%20van den Bosch"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000271/000271.html">Attention Ecology: Trend Circulation and the Virality Threshold</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Nicholas M Van Horn, Capital University; Aaron Beveridge, University of Florida; Sean Morey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000271en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000271en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000271en"> This article demonstrates the use of data mining methodologies for the study and research of social media in the digital humanities. Drawing from recent convergences in writing, rhetoric, and DH research, this article investigates how trends operate within complex networks. Through a study of trend data mined from Twitter, this article suggests the possibility of identifying a virality threshold for Twitter trends, and the possibility that such a threshold has broader implications for attention ecology research in the digital humanities. This article builds on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Richard Lanham, and Sidney Dobrin to suggest new theories and methodologies for understanding how attention operates within complex media ecologies at a macroscopic level. While many various theories and methods have investigated writing, rhetoric, and digital media at the microscopic level, this article contends that a complimentary macroscopic approach is needed to further investigate how attention functions for network culture. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Attention%20Ecology%3A%20Trend%20Circulation%20and%20the%20Virality%20Threshold&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-10&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Van Horn&rft.aufirst=Nicholas M&rft.au=Nicholas M%20Van Horn&rft.au=Aaron%20Beveridge&rft.au=Sean%20Morey"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000272/000272.html">A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Pieter François, University of Hertfordshire, University of Oxford; J.G. Manning, Yale University; Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford; Rob Brennan, Trinity College Dublin; Thomas Currie, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus; Kevin Feeney, Trinity College Dublin; Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000272en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000272en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000272en"> This article introduces the “Seshat: Global History” project, the methodology it is based upon and its potential as a tool for historians and other humanists. Seshat is a comprehensive dataset covering human cultural evolution since the Neolithic. The article describes in detail how the Seshat methodology and platform can be used to tackle big questions that play out over long time scales whilst allowing users to drill down to the detail and place every single data point both in its historic and historiographical context. Seshat thus offers a platform underpinned by a rigorous methodology to actually do longue durée history and the article argues for the need for humanists and social scientists to engage with data driven longue durée history. The article argues that Seshat offers a much-needed infrastructure in which different skill sets and disciplines can come together to analyze the past using long timescales. In addition to highlighting the theoretical and methodological underpinnings, Seshat's potential is demonstrated using three case studies. Each of these case studies is centred around a set of longstanding questions and historiographical debates and it is argued that the introduction of a Seshat approach has the potential to radically alter our understanding of these questions. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=A%20Macroscope%20for%20Global%20History%3A%20Seshat%20Global%20History%20Databank,%20a%20methodological%20overview&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-10-24&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=François&rft.aufirst=Pieter&rft.au=Pieter%20François&rft.au=J.G.%20Manning&rft.au=Harvey%20Whitehouse&rft.au=Rob%20Brennan&rft.au=Thomas%20Currie&rft.au=Kevin%20Feeney&rft.au=Peter%20Turchin"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000273/000273.html">Racial Proxies in Daily News: A Case Study of the Use of Directional Euphemisms</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Timothy Messer-Kruse, Bowling Green State University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000273en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000273en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000273en"> This study examines the extent of the use of geographic code words in place of racial terms in daily news reporting. This is a case study of the only daily newspaper, the Toledo<cite class="italic"> Blade</cite>, in the midwestern city of Toledo, Ohio. A data set was constructed by searching a nine year collection of <cite class="italic">Blade </cite>articles, available in full-text searchable format in a ProQuest database, that included the most frequently used directional terms and had specific street addresses (a total of 981 stories). Besides bibliographic data, each story was coded for its location and the general nature of the story. Street addresses were used to compile relevant census tract information on the proportion of minorities in each area referenced. These references were then plotted over a street map of Toledo revealing geographic distributions that do not relate to actual cardinal directions. Population data corresponding to each data point was then analyzed to show that directional terminology correlates with the concentration of minority population. Additionally, a comprehensive content analysis of all 21,667 Blade articles published in this period revealed racial differences in reporting. Such quantified observations are reinforced by examination of particular examples of racialized usage of geographic terms. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Racial%20Proxies%20in%20Daily%20News%3A%20A%20Case%20Study%20of%20the%20Use%20of%20Directional%20Euphemisms&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-11-08&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Messer-Kruse&rft.aufirst=Timothy&rft.au=Timothy%20Messer-Kruse"> </span></div> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000280/000280.html">Obama’s Sixth Annual Address: Image, Affordance, Flow</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Dan Faltesek, Oregon State University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000280en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000280en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000280en"> Recent State of the Union addresses have included a number of new visual elements, including a running slide show and interactive social media cards. This paper poses a method for collecting and analyzing these new visual elements and incorporating the results of that study into the study of presidential Rhetoric. This article will: (1) situate the enhanced State of the Union within the study of presidential rhetoric, (2) combine aspects of close and distant reading for critique of the address, (3) provide the results of the approach to distant reading taken here, and (4) discuss the implications of the analysis of this particular visual program as they afford future annual addresses different opportunities, and constraints. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Obama%E2%80%99s%20Sixth%20Annual%20Address%3A%20Image,%20Affordance,%20Flow&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-11-22&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Faltesek&rft.aufirst=Dan&rft.au=Dan%20Faltesek"> </span></div> <h2>Case Studies</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000275/000275.html">Developing a Qualitative Coding Analysis of Visual Artwork for Humanities Research</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Tina Budzise-Weaver, Texas A&M University</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000275en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000275en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000275en"> The field of humanities has now grown into a digital environment challenging educators and scholars to create, manipulate, and curate data for research and instruction. The humanities is faced with a digital medium that is changing the way scholars conduct their exploration of research. This study encourages the examination of imagery through qualitative coding, or annotation, to reveal themes and visual stories to further unravel the layers of a visual object. Images from the work of 1960s pop artists James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein were evaluated using ATLAS.ti to determine common themes, visual stories, and aesthetic differences. Qualitative coding is usually associated with textual data, but using a software analysis tool such as ATLAS.ti can centralize the collection of data to efficiently code imagery, text, audio, and video. This case study will be used to introduce researchers, faculty, and students to qualitative analysis tools and the usefulness of coding to reveal themes in imagery. Furthermore, librarians have an opportunity to facilitate the learning of these tools in combination with the various proprietary and open access image databases housed in the library. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Developing%20a%20Qualitative%20Coding%20Analysis%20of%20Visual%20Artwork%20for%20Humanities%20Research&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-11-08&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Budzise-Weaver&rft.aufirst=Tina&rft.au=Tina%20Budzise-Weaver"> </span></div> <h2>Issues in Digital Humanities</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000277/000277.html">The Digital Future of Humanities through the Lens of DIY Culture</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, University of Copenhagen</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000277en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000277en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000277en"> This paper asks the question: Do the humanities by necessity have a digital future? It argues that the answer to this question is both yes and no. The argument looks through the lens of DIY culture as an attempt to try and understand the future for the humanities in terms of both cultural material and processes. The argument is made first by examining the case of information sharing within DIY culture as an expression of current day cultural material. Secondly, it illustrated how traditional humanities scholarship, such as reading ancient documents, compares to it’s DIY equivalent within family history circles, and how both will continue to use digital and non-digital methods. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The%20Digital%20Future%20of%20Humanities%20through%20the%20Lens%20of%20DIY%20Culture&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-11-08&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Roued-Cunliffe&rft.aufirst=Henriette&rft.au=Henriette%20Roued-Cunliffe"> </span></div> <h2>Reviews</h2> <div class="articleInfo" style="margin:0 0 1em 0;"><span class="monospace">[en] </span><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/000278/000278.html">Complex Modeling and You: A Review of <cite class="italic">Would-Be Worlds</cite> by John L. Casti (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997)</a><div style="padding-left:1em; margin:0;text-indent:-1em;">Erik Kenneth Shell, University of California Los Angeles</div><span class="viewAbstract">Abstract <span class="viewAbstract monospace" style="display:inline" id="abstractExpanderabstract000278en"><a title="View Abstract" class="expandCollapse monospace" href="javascript:expandAbstract('abstract000278en')">[en]</a></span><span style="display:none" class="abstract" id="abstract000278en"> In <cite class="italic">Would be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science</cite>, John Casti lays out the history, methods and evolution of simple and complex systems as they exist in the digital world of our computers and manifest themselves in our daily lives. He does this through a plethora of examples, ranging from football simulators to internal computer warfare between lines of code. Casti presents a framework approach to creating one’s own complex systems for research purposes, and enduringly fosters in his reader an appreciation of the fundamentals: how such systems behave, what the best practices are, and how best to think about complex systems. </span></span><span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Complex%20Modeling%20and%20You%3A%20A%20Review%20of%20Would-Be%20Worlds%20by%20John%20L.%20Casti%20(New%20York%3A%20John%20Wiley%20%26%20Sons,%201997)&rft.jtitle=Digital%20Humanities%20Quarterly&rft.stitle=DHQ&rft.issn=1938-4122&rft.date=2016-11-22&rft.volume=010&rft.issue=4&rft.aulast=Shell&rft.aufirst=Erik Kenneth&rft.au=Erik Kenneth%20Shell"> </span></div> <h2><a href="/dhq/vol/10/4/bios.html">Author Biographies</a></h2></div><div id="footer"><div style="float:left; max-width:70%;"> URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/index.html<br/> Comments: <a href="mailto:dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org" class="footer">dhqinfo@digitalhumanities.org</a><br/> Published by: <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org" class="footer">The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations</a> and <a href="http://www.ach.org" class="footer">The Association for Computers and the Humanities</a><br/>Affiliated with: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/dsh">Digital Scholarship in the Humanities</a><br/> DHQ has been made possible in part by the <a href="https://www.neh.gov/">National Endowment for the Humanities</a>.<br/>Copyright © 2005 - <script type="text/javascript"> var currentDate = new Date(); document.write(currentDate.getFullYear());</script><br/><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/4.0/80x15.png"/></a><br/>Unless otherwise noted, the DHQ web site and all DHQ published content are published under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>. 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