The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (2025)

The Little Database is a book that merges media studies and literary studies to survey a series of little databases, databases too small to be useful for modern data analytics, but too large for a single person to consume. The work covers Textz.com, Eclipse, PennSound, MutantSounds, MUPS, and UbuWeb in novel and interesting ways previously unseen in either media or literary studies.

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Digital humanities quarterly
Published
2025-10-31
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https://doi.org/10.63744/dzudasqm2fmk
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Digital Humanities and Scholarship
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The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (2025)

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The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (2025)

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Abstract

The Little Database is a book that merges media studies and literary studies to survey a series of little databases, databases too small to be useful for modern data analytics, but too large for a single person to consume. The work covers Textz.com, Eclipse, PennSound, MutantSounds, MUPS, and UbuWeb in novel and interesting ways previously unseen in either media or literary studies.

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