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)

Informations projet

GLOTECH

N° de convention de subvention: 101024996

DOI

10.3030/101024996

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 25 Mars 2021

Date de début 1 Septembre 2021

Date de fin 31 Août 2023

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 191 149,44

Contribution de l’UE

€ 191 149,44

Coordonné par

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))

Période du rapport: 2021-09-01 au 2023-08-31

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

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.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

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.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

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