Gerhard Lauer: scholar who uses historical, experimental and computational methods to understand cultural behaviour of humans, specifically their books and reading. Works at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz but views expressed here are his own, especially wrong ones.
For your reading enjoyment:
Lesen im digitalen Zeitalter
West-Östliche Wahlverwandtschaften. Hans Bethge
Was macht die Digitalisierung mit den Hochschulen?
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Race and Natural History, 1750-1850
Lauer, G. (2022). Language, Childhood and Fire: How we learned to love story sharing. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.787203 (Reviewed by Robin Dunbar and David Bjorklund)
Pianzola, F., Rebora, S., & Lauer, G. (2020). Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins. PLOS ONE 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
Rebora, S., Herrmann, B., Lauer, G., & Salgaro, M. (2019). Robert Musil, a war journal, and stylometry. Tackling the issue of short texts in authorship attribution. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(3), 582–605. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy055
Lauer, G. (2019). Über den Wert der exakten Geisteswissenschaften. Joas, H., & Noller, J. (Eds.). Geisteswissenschaften - was bleibt? Zwischen Theorie, Tradition und Transformation. Freiburg, München: Karl Alber, 152–173.
Hube, C., Fischer, F., Jäschke, R., Lauer, G., & Rosendahl Thomsen, M. (2017). World Literature according to Wikipedia: Introduction to a DBpedia-based framework. arXiv:1701.00991 [cs.IR].
Zhang, Y., & Lauer, G. (2015). How culture shapes the reading of fairy tales: A cross-cultural approach. Comparative Literature Studies 52(4), 663–681.
Riese, K., Bayer, M., Lauer, G., & Schacht, A. (2014). In the eye of the recipient. Pupillary responses to suspense in literary classics. The Scientific Study of Literature 4(2), 211–232.
Jannidis, F. & Lauer, G. (2014). Burrows’s delta and its use in German literary history. Erlin, M. & Tatlock, L. (Eds.). Distant readings. Topologies of German culture in the long nineteenth century. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 29–54.
Lauer, G. (2014). Über Menschen, Schweine und andere Rassen. Die Varietäten der Menschen und ihre zoologische Kritik in der gelehrten Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Gantet, C. & Schock, F. (Eds.). Zeitschriften, Journalismus und gelehrte Kommunikation im 18. Jahrhundert. Bremen: edition lumière, 221–232.