Time, Technology, and Globalization. A study of the role of technology in processes of modernization and globalization using the Press, Big Data, and Computational Research Methodologies (GLOTECH)

Projektinformationen

GLOTECH

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 101024996

DOI

10.3030/101024996

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 25 März 2021

Startdatum 1 September 2021

Enddatum 31 August 2023

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten

€ 191 149,44

EU-Beitrag

€ 191 149,44

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GLOTECH (Time, Technology, and Globalization. A study of the role of technology in processes of modernization and globalization using the Press, Big Data, and Computational Research Methodologies (GLOTECH))

Berichtszeitraum: 2021-09-01 bis 2023-08-31

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

The action GLOTECH has contributed to advance knowledge discovery fostering
interdisciplinarity. Its main research objective (exploring the role of technology as a factor of
time standardizations in Western, industrialized societies, as well as a booster of cultural
homogenization, and as a consequence, an agent of globalization), has been accomplished:
GLOTECH has analyzed the social impact of technology in processes of globalization in
Western societies in two different historic times: the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914)
and the latest digital revolution (1999-2018).

In order to achieve this main research objective, GLOTECH has followed three scientific objectives:

• Objective 1: to analyze historical processes of information homogenization and differentiation
in the Western World.
• Objective 2: to push the state of the art in DH and CSS.
• Objective 3: to actively cooperate to advance the European Knowledge Society.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

One published paper: A Sustainable West? Analyzing Clusters of Public Opinion in Sustainability Western Discourses in a Collection of Multilingual Newspapers (1999-2018). Elena Fernández Fernández and Germans Savcisens. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. Status: published. Link to article: https://journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/article/view/10660. Link to scripts: https://github.com/carlomarxdk/TemporalTopicModelling-Pachinko).

Three papers invited for re-submission.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

Knowledge discovery about the social impact of technology in information behaviour using newspapers as corpora. Uncovering editorial practices in contemporary newspapers, databases research pros-and cons, and archive limitations in historical multilingual newspapers digitized collections. Meta-reflection about newspapers as containers of information and how they mirror historical events yet not necessarily reflecting intellectual trends of their respective historical times.

Summary of the action