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Amico, Chris. "Opened Captions: Turning the spoken words on TV screens into streams of hackable data." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Dec. 2012. Web. 26 Mar. 2025.
APA
Amico, C. (2012, Dec. 3). Opened Captions: Turning the spoken words on TV screens into streams of hackable data. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 26, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/12/opened-captions-turning-the-spoken-words-on-tv-screens-into-streams-of-hackable-data/
Chicago
Amico, Chris. "Opened Captions: Turning the spoken words on TV screens into streams of hackable data." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 3, 2012. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/12/opened-captions-turning-the-spoken-words-on-tv-screens-into-streams-of-hackable-data/.
Wikipedia
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