Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction Technologies of Testimony and Distant Witnessing 1
6. 1 What Should Algorithms Have to Do with Ethics? 17
7. 2 Computation That (De)humanizes: From “Bare Data” to Human Life 42
8. 3 David Boder and the Origins of Computational Analysis of Survivor Testimonies
9. Introduction 79
10. Digital Project Two Methods of Counter-indexing the “Gray Zone”: N-Grams and Semantic Triplets 123
11. 4 Through the Lens of Big Data: A Macroanalysis of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive 147
12. 5 The Haunted Voice: On the Ethics of Close and Distant Listening
13. Introduction 191
14. Digital Project What Were Survivors Asked? Using Machine Learning to Constellate 89,759 Interviewer Questions 232
15. 6 Algorithmic Close Reading: Analyzing Vectors of Agency in Holocaust Testimonies
16. Introduction 258
17. Digital Project Mala Zimetbaum and the Creation of a Testimonial Ensemble 300
18. 7 Cultural Memory Machines and the Futures of Testimony 323
19. Notes 351
20. Index 415