Digitised Newspapers - A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Digitization technologies applied to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite unquestionable merits, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also brings drawbacks and possible pitfalls which need to be carefully assessed.

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
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