Beals, M. H. Digital Scissors, Computational Paste: Re-Visualising the Content of 19th Century Newspapers We are all familiar with the ideal newspaper—the headlines, datelines, and by-lines, the photos, the captions, and the ads. But can we step away from this image and re-imagine the newspaper as a basket of words, or of ideas, curated and arranged in different ways for different ends? This paper will discuss methods for cataloguing and re-conceptualising the content of nineteenth-century newspapers through different data visualisations and how to leverage our widening access to digital newspaper transcriptions to understand the newspaper as a both a unified genre and diverse collection of independent publications.<br> Newspapers;Digital History;Digital Humanities;Big Data;Digitisation;Digitization;Visualisation;Visualization;Visualization Software;Research Software Engineering;Digital Humanities;Media Studies;Library and Information Studies 2018-04-16
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