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))
Période du rapport: 2021-09-01 au 2023-08-31
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.
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.
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.
Three papers invited for re-submission.
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.