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Why does a full-text archive quietly narrow what historians end up writing about?
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- How do you search for a phenomenon people had no word for?
- What does that do to the questions researchers end up asking?
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A. You find what you can search for
Why
You cannot type a keyword for a thing nobody named. Full-text search quietly reshapes research toward the nameable, which is a strange principle on which to organize a discipline.
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