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Liu, Alan, Abigail Droge, Scott Kleinman, Lindsay Thomas, Dan C. Baciu, and Jeremy Douglass. “What Everyone Says: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media.” Daedalus 151, no. 3 (2022): 19–39. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_01926. Cite

Thomas, Lindsay, and Abigail Droge. “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 7, no. 1 (2022): 36–80. https://culturalanalytics.org/article/32036-the-humanities-in-public-a-computational-analysis-of-us-national-and-campus-newspapers. Cite

WhatEvery1Says (WE1S) Project. “Home Page,” 2022. https://we1s.ucsb.edu/. Cite

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