What is Distant Reading

For a non-profit professional organization, the publishing of a periodical requires a deep level of dedication in terms of volunteer staff and other inputs. Colleague 2 Colleague has been publishing an informal magazine since Fall 2012. While the publication started out as an annual publication known as Lantern, it evolved to C2C Digital Magazine and became a bi-annual publication. This chapter explores what may be learnable about the contents of this periodical over the seven years of its existence through computational text analysis (“distant reading”) in terms of the authors, the organizational interests, and the related professional community.