| Sumario: | The emerging field of digital humanities offers many potential innovations for historians, but also generates a host of methodological and philosophical challenges and issues. This article focuses on one feature of digital humanities, distant reading, to analyse the history of women's surfing in Australia in the early twentieth century. As a form of quantitative analysis involving data mining and visual representations, distant reading is used in tandem with traditional historical research methods to deconstruct the mythology of early Australian surfing. The article argues for the value of blending digital technologies with traditional qualitative methods to reveal new historical insights.
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