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)

Informazioni relative al progetto

GLOTECH

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101024996

DOI

10.3030/101024996

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 25 Marzo 2021

Data di avvio 1 Settembre 2021

Data di completamento 31 Agosto 2023

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Costo totale

€ 191 149,44

Contributo UE

€ 191 149,44

Coordinato da

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))

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-09-01 al 2023-08-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

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.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

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.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

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