Laboratories of Community: How Digital Humanities Can Further New European Integration History
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2015
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van den Bos, Maarten
Coll Ardanuy, Mariona
Sporleder, Caroline
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Abstract
It has been said that media is an important but mostly overlooked player in European integration history. Now, the mass digitisation of newspapers and the introduction of new digital techniques promise great potential to remedy this inattention. With the conjecture that people are drivers and carriers of change, we propose a people-centric approach to mine news articles in a way that can be most useful to further historical research. In this paper, we describe a methodology for building social networks from unstructured news stories, with the European integration scenario serving as a case study.
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Digital history, Text mining, European integration, International relations, Social network, Public discourse
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van den Bos, M, Coll Ardanuy, M & Sporleder, C 2015, Laboratories of Community : How Digital Humanities Can Further New European Integration History. in Social Informatics : SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 11 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, pp. 284-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7 36