Abstract: Traditional humanities research has been leveraged but also destabilised by the increasing accessibility of digitized sources and computational tools for analysis. As traditional close reading methods alone are no longer sufficient to analyse such an unprecedented mass of digital data, a plethora of platforms have appeared in order to help researchers query and visualise the networks and patterns latent in these sources. However, this flood of data and push-button technologies has also threatened to obscure through abundance and instill in scho...
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