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Magic lantern shows through a macroscopic lens: topic modelling and mapping as methods for media archaeology.

This article explores trends across Lucerna, an online web resource for magic lantern materials, by combining two digital approaches: topic modelling and geospatial mapping. Topic modelling identifies words that occur most frequently together in a large corpus of texts through a form of statistical...

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Published in:Early Popular Visual Culture Vol. 17; no. 3/4; pp. 341 - 361
Main Author: Borgo Ton, Mary
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug-Nov2019
Subjects:
Magic shows
Mass media
Digital humanities
Public spaces
Texture mapping
Archaeology
Digital preservation
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost