Toward a computational hermeneutics

Big Data and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Mohr, John W ^a   Wagner Pacifici, Robin ^a   Breiger, Ronald L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Big Data; close reading; content analysis; Hermeneutics; Kenneth Burke; National Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 85057764377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715613809     Document Type: Note

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