Starting from Scratch: Learning to Think Digitally

Most of the literature and discourse on the labor investment in learning digital methodologies concentrates on time and funding. My contribution to this roundtable will address the intellectual re-thinking involved in learning to think like a computer. As I begin my new digital history project, a network analysis of the Soviet film industry and its international dimensions, I am blogging about both the technical and the intellectual challenges involved. My comments will focus on both my own intellectual trajectory and the costs and benefits of learning in public.