Missed Possibilities from Unobtainable Data: The Case of Instapoetry and a Wish to Go beyond Rupi Kaur

This article is the result of joint research. Both authors were involved in devising the project, discussing the outline, and reviewing the final manuscript. CSH is mainly responsible for the designing of the computational framework and data collection. ENR contributed to the theoretical framework regarding literary canonization. Both authors were involved in the analysis and discussion of data. The sections “The Initial Research Project,” “Running into Unforeseen Problems,” “Running Into Data Collection Trouble’ and “Algorithmic Influence on Canonization” were written by CSH. The sections “Introduction” and “Is the Author Really Dead? Authorship, Canonization, and the Limits of Current Research” were written by ENR. “Distant Reading of Culture as Data as a Starting Point for Objects of Study, Corpus-Creation, and Canonization. Reflections and Concluding Remarks” was written jointly.