Tess Mcnulty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tess Mcnulty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tess |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnulty |
| SIGNATURE | MCNULTY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Computation and Form, Reconsidered
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, critics have continually reconsidered the compatibility of computation and the humanities. Often, questions of “form” have played key roles in these conversations. In the 1940s, for example, critics asked whether word-counting might capture “formal units” of poetry like style. By the 2010s, scholars debated with new fervor whether computational methods could—or should—be used to track aesthetic…
Pranks and the Viral Canon
Since the early 2000s, digital pranks—or filmed practical jokes—have earned a reputation for platform-based popularity. But how prominent are such pranks amongst other “viral” genres? And what might they reveal, more generally, about viral video as a cultural form? In this essay, I address these broad questions from a specific perspective: I consider the digital prank in the context of two datasets of video content by top-ranked English-language …
Content's Forms
The internet is awash with new popular forms, from TED Talks and podcasts to makeup tutorials and tweets. And yet scholars have only just begun to explore these forms cultural effects. This essay develops an approach to new forms of popular digital "content," grounded in the humanistic theory tradition. The approach draws together formalist methods of analyzing genre from computational literary criticism and new media theory and applies them to t…
Content-Era Ethics
New media forms affect a culture, in part, by reshaping what is seeable and sayable: what “ideas,” as Neil Postman once put it, “we can conveniently express.” In this essay, I ask what one of today’s major new media forms—viral, digital “content”—compels us to see and say. To address that question, I em-brace a makeshift, hybrid methodology, informed by theory, sociology, arts criticism, and the digital humanities, and eschewing media theoretical…
Literary Ethics, Revisited
Literary critics have long drawn extensively on continental theory, whereas they have taken little interest in analytic philosophy. At times, they have critiqued analytic philosophy as apolitical or pedantic. More often, they ignore its existence. Perhaps they have done so, in part, because its methods have been ill-suited to their projects. Throughout the past few decades, literary critics have often—if not always—embraced two intellectual activ…
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Literary Ethics, Revisited
Literary critics have long drawn extensively on continental theory, whereas they have taken little interest in analytic philosophy. At times, they have critiqued analytic philosophy as apolitical or pedantic. More often, they ignore its existence. Perhaps they have done so, in part, because its methods have been ill-suited to their projects. Throughout the past few decades, literary critics have often—if not always—embraced two intellectual activ…
Content-Era Ethics
New media forms affect a culture, in part, by reshaping what is seeable and sayable: what “ideas,” as Neil Postman once put it, “we can conveniently express.” In this essay, I ask what one of today’s major new media forms—viral, digital “content”—compels us to see and say. To address that question, I em-brace a makeshift, hybrid methodology, informed by theory, sociology, arts criticism, and the digital humanities, and eschewing media theoretical…
Content's Forms
The internet is awash with new popular forms, from TED Talks and podcasts to makeup tutorials and tweets. And yet scholars have only just begun to explore these forms cultural effects. This essay develops an approach to new forms of popular digital "content," grounded in the humanistic theory tradition. The approach draws together formalist methods of analyzing genre from computational literary criticism and new media theory and applies them to t…
Computation and Form, Reconsidered
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, critics have continually reconsidered the compatibility of computation and the humanities. Often, questions of “form” have played key roles in these conversations. In the 1940s, for example, critics asked whether word-counting might capture “formal units” of poetry like style. By the 2010s, scholars debated with new fervor whether computational methods could—or should—be used to track aesthetic…
Pranks and the Viral Canon
Since the early 2000s, digital pranks—or filmed practical jokes—have earned a reputation for platform-based popularity. But how prominent are such pranks amongst other “viral” genres? And what might they reveal, more generally, about viral video as a cultural form? In this essay, I address these broad questions from a specific perspective: I consider the digital prank in the context of two datasets of video content by top-ranked English-language …
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)