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Ryan Cordell, David Smith, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon ""Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers," from Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Humanities. This project has already built an interactive network graphs that depicts text sharing between antebellum American newspapers: http://www.viraltexts.org/gexfnetworks/1836-js1860-masterwMagazines/index.html
Network Basics:What is a Network?
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