Text, Fractal Dust and Informational Granularity: A Study of Scale

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. History
5. Adventures in Zoomland: Transitions in Scale and the Visual Exploration of Historical Knowledge Graphs as Sequential Storytelling 19
6. Capturing Discourse through the Digital Lens: Towards a Framework for the Analysis of Pro-democratic Discourse in the Weimar Republic 43
7. Menocchio Mapped: Italian Microhistory and the Digital Spatial Turn 77
8. Scaling Digital History and Documenting the Self-Emancipated 97
9. Media
10. Keep Calm and Stay Focused: Historicising and Intertwining Scales and Temporalities of Online Virality 119
11. Zooming in on Shot Scales: A Digital Approach to Reframing Transnational TV series Adaptations 151
12. Adapting the Optics: Zoom-in, Zoom-out, and Zoom-zero Modes to Understand Religious Sculptures 189
13. Scale Exercises: Listening to the Sonic Diversity in 5000 hours of Swedish Radio with Computers and Ears 213
14. Hermeneutics
15. Complexity and Analytical-creative Approaches at Scale: Iconicity, Monstrosity, and #GraphPoem 237
16. The Scales of (Computational) Literary Studies: Martin Mueller’s Concept of Scalable Reading in Theory and Practice 261
17. Text, Fractal Dust and Informational Granularity: A Study of Scale 287
18. Scale and Narrative: Conceiving a Long-form Digital Argument for Data-driven Microhistory 335
19. Digital Landscapes
20. Meaningful Aesthetics: A Comparison of Open Source Network Analysis Tools 367
21. Defining Level and Scale as Socio-technical Operators for Mining Digital Traces 407
22. Zooming is (not just) Scaling: Considerations of Scale in Old Maps from Cartographic Perspectives on Generalisation 427
23. Weather Map: A Diachronic Visual Model for Controversy Mapping 449
24. List of Contributors 467
25. Index 471