Case studies in Britain, Canada, and the United States illustrate the wide range of projects using tools and techniques associated with the digital humanities that are expanding the scope and scale ...of enquiry in tourism and travel histories. Discussions about their research programmes with key figures associated with the development of these tools reveal a set of common interests, ambitions, and limitations, as well as ways in which digital humanities approaches can be incorporated profitably within projects to advance theoretical paradigms, related to spatialities and post-colonial studies, for instance.
How do digital media impact the meaning of iconic photographs? Recent studies have suggested that online circulation, especially in a memeified form, might lead to the erosion, fracturing, or ...collapsing of the original contextual meaning of iconic pictures. Introducing a distant reading methodology to the study of iconic photographs, we apply the Google Cloud Vision Application Programming Interface (GCV API) to retrieve 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic images between 1995 and 2020. We use document embeddings, a Natural Language Processing technique, to map in what contexts iconic photographs are circulated online. The article demonstrates that constantly changing configurations of contextual imagetexts, self-referential image-texts, and non-referential image/texts shape the online live of iconic photographs: ebbs and flows of slowly disappearing, suddenly resurfacing, and newly found meanings. While iconic photographs might not need captions to speak, this article argues that a large-scale analysis of texts can help us better grasp what they say.
By applying the mixed research methods combining new historicism and digital humanities with AntConc-assisted distant reading techniques, this research aims to explore a reconstruction of Jakarta's ...history offered in From Batavia to Jakarta (1619–1999), a collection of poems by Zeffry J. Alkatiri. Results show that history can be reconstructed through the physical structure of narrative poetry represented by the dominant usage of pronoun "they" and intra-sentence conjunctions and prepositions such as "and", "in", and "the" instead of licentia poetica which can violate language rules. However, in the structural analysis, AntConc was not able to detect several linguistic aspects such as typography, figures of speech, metaphors, hyperboles, and personifications in several subchapters, so manual analysis was still required. Results show that the reconstruction of Jakarta’s history by Alkatiri revolves around four main themes, i.e. violence, the struggle against colonialism, Betawi and peranakan cultures, and Jakarta as a city, each of which is imbued with issues pertaining to identity, such as race, class, and urban lifestyle. This reconstruction also features the words "child" and "person" as markers of certain identities.
Die Verbindungslinien zwischen Digital Humanities (DH) und Literaturdidaktik sind in Anbetracht des geringen Umfangs bisheriger Ansätze nicht unmittelbar evident. Deswegen thematisiert der erste Teil ...des vorliegenden Beitrags Berührungspunkte für eine weiterführende literatur- und mediendidaktische Auseinandersetzung. Der zweite Teil skizziert ergänzend Parallelen in der Entwicklung von wissenschaftlicher Methodik im Spiegel der Mediengeschichte und fragt, wie man die eigene Forschungsgeschichte erzählt, wozu der Begriff der ‚Schwellisierung‘ vorgeschlagen wird. Auf diesen Grundlagen wird eine Arbeitsdefinition für literaturdidaktische DH erstellt. Der dritte Teil führt schließlich konkrete Beispiele für DH in der Literaturdidaktik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der rechnergestützten, quantitativen Analyse von Curricula aus (Distant bzw. Scalable Reading). Abstract (english): Moretti goes Didactics. Quantitative Empirical Research, Thresholdisation and Digital Humanities in Literature Didactics (Focus On Distant / Scalable Reading) Connections between digital humanities (DH) and literature didactics appear to be rather scarce so far, at least with regard to the number of existing attempts. Hence, the first part of the paper at hand addresses potential overlaps for an advanced approach in literature and media didactics. The second part outlines further parallels considering the development of scientific methods as reflected in media history and asking how to tell one’s own history of research. In this context, the article proposes to frame such links as processes of ‘thresholdisation’ and outlines a working definition of DH in literature didactics. The third and last part discusses examples of DH against this background focusing on quantitative analyses of curricula (distant and scalable reading respectively).
This article explores the rapidly developing field of Critical AI Studies and its relation to issues of class and capitalism through a hybrid approach based on distant reading of a newly collected ...corpus of 300 full-text scientific articles, the creation of which is itself a first attempt at properly delineating the field. We find that words related to issues of class are predominantly but not exclusively confined to a set of studies that make up their own distinct subfield of Critical AI Studies, in contrast to, e.g., issues of race and gender, which are more broadly present in the corpus.
Die Verbindungslinien zwischen Digital Humanities (DH) und Literaturdidaktik sind in Anbetracht des geringen Umfangs bisheriger Ansätze nicht unmittelbar evident. Deswegen thematisiert der erste Teil ...des vorliegenden Beitrags Berührungspunkte für eine weiterführende literatur- und mediendidaktische Auseinandersetzung. Der zweite Teil skizziert ergänzend Parallelen in der Entwicklung von wissenschaftlicher Methodik im Spiegel der Mediengeschichte und fragt, wie man die eigene Forschungsgeschichte erzählt, wozu der Begriff der ‚Schwellisierung‘ vorgeschlagen wird. Auf diesen Grundlagen wird eine Arbeitsdefinition für literaturdidaktische DH erstellt. Der dritte Teil führt schließlich konkrete Beispiele für DH in der Literaturdidaktik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der rechnergestützten, quantitativen Analyse von Curricula aus (Distant bzw. Scalable Reading). Abstract (english): Moretti goes Didactics. Quantitative Empirical Research, Thresholdisation and Digital Humanities in Literature Didactics (Focus On Distant / Scalable Reading) Connections between digital humanities (DH) and literature didactics appear to be rather scarce so far, at least with regard to the number of existing attempts. Hence, the first part of the paper at hand addresses potential overlaps for an advanced approach in literature and media didactics. The second part outlines further parallels considering the development of scientific methods as reflected in media history and asking how to tell one’s own history of research. In this context, the article proposes to frame such links as processes of ‘thresholdisation’ and outlines a working definition of DH in literature didactics. The third and last part discusses examples of DH against this background focusing on quantitative analyses of curricula (distant and scalable reading respectively).
The purpose of this note is to explore the theme of language as an object of reception, to highlight the interrelationship between some key concepts, and to sketch, however briefly, a conceptual ...thread that will allow us to present some of the points of a philosophical and epistemic map of analysis developed by Marine Picon in her volume Norm and Objects of Knowledge.
The aim of this study is to describe the possibilities and limitations of the corpus approach to the analysis of film subtitles, taking into account their technical, social, and culturalnational ...features. It offers a review of existing film content corpora accompanied by their critical interpretation, firstly from the perspective of subtitle quality as empirical data for linguistic research, and secondly from the perspective of corpus quality as an environment for quantitative analysis of empirical material. Furthermore, based on established subtitling practices, the author proposes her own viewpoint on subtitles as material for studying film speech, considering technical (line length, screen size adaptation), social (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing), and cultural-national (subtitling countries vs dubbing countries) aspects of subtitling in different languages and countries. In the course of the work, it was found that the largest number of subtitles available in open repositories are translated equivalents of cinema speech. It is noted that subtitling is preferred in the USA, UK, India, China, and Japan. The features of subtitling in countries such as Serbia, Finland, and Russia are described. The author concludes that these features are important for the quality of linguistic research on the basis of translated movie speech represented by subtitles.
In this paper, we investigate the common narrative in literary history that the inner lives of characters became a central preoccupation of literary modernism – a phenomenon commonly referenced as ...the “inward turn”. We operationalize this notion via a proxy, tracing the use of verbs relating to inner life across 10 language corpora from the ELTeC collection, which comprises novels from the period between 1840–1920. We expected to find an increase in the use of inner-life verbs corresponding to the traditional periodisation of modernism in each of the languages. However, different experiments conducted with the data do not confirm this hypothesis. We therefore look at the results in a number of more granular ways, but we cannot identify any common trends even when we split the verbs into individual categories, or take canonicity or gender into account. We discuss the obtained results in detail, proposing potential reasons for them and including potential avenues of further research as well as lessons learned.
Das Lesen historischer Handschriften gehört seit Jahrhunderten zum hilfswissenschaftlichen Methodenapparat, die automatisierte Erkennung entspricht somit einer potentiellen Arbeitserleichterung, die ...den Geschichtswissenschaften neue Perspektiven eröffnet. Um die Technologie und ihr Potential einzuschätzen, wird erläutert, welche Faktoren für die erfolgreiche Erkennung entscheidend sind und wie die Resultate weiterverarbeitet werden können. Mittels
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wird der Methodenapparat aber auch um ein Lernverfahren erweitert, das auf große Datenmengen angewiesen ist und aus den zugrundeliegenden Daten (Be-)Wertungen übernimmt, die häufig zu unerwünschten Nebeneffekten führt. Anhand der Handschriftenerkennung kann so eine Technologie erfahren und kritisch eingeordnet werden, die aktuell in diversen Wissenschaftsbereichen und unserem täglichen Leben Einzug hält.
