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)

Información del proyecto

GLOTECH

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101024996

DOI

10.3030/101024996

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 25 Marzo 2021

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2021

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2023

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 191 149,44

Aportación de la UE

€ 191 149,44

Coordinado por

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))

Período documentado: 2021-09-01 hasta 2023-08-31

Resumen del contexto y de los objetivos generales del proyecto

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.

Trabajo realizado desde el comienzo del proyecto hasta el final del período abarcado por el informe y los principales resultados hasta la fecha

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.

Avances que van más allá del estado de la técnica e impacto potencial esperado (incluida la repercusión socioeconómica y las implicaciones sociales más amplias del proyecto hasta la fecha)

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