The new knowledge environments of the digital age are often described as places where we are all closely read, with our buying habits, our location, and intimate details of our identities available to advertisers, online merchants, the government, and others through our use of the Internet.John C. Hunter, All Data is Credit Data — On Close Reading as a Reciprocal Process in Digital Knowledge Environments, h+ Magazine.
Culture Magazine
Franco Moretti coined the term "distant reading" in 2000 to indicate a type of literary analysis that subsequently became greatly facilitated by computer tech, I've just come across a use of "close reading" for a type of analysis that has become greatly facilitated by computer tech (emphasis mine):
