Australia's Women Surfers: History, Methodology and the Digital Humanities.

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 Aus...

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Published in:Australian Historical Studies Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 285 - 304
Main Authors: Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2015
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