Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Matti La Mela, Albert Wendsjö
{"title":"Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024)","authors":"Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Matti La Mela, Albert Wendsjö","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.12241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12241","url":null,"abstract":"The workshop Digital Parliamentary Data in Action 2024 (DiPaDa 2024) took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 28 May, co-located with The 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2024). The workshop, along with its predecessor organised in Uppsala in 2022, supports the advancement of research using parliamentary datasets, which present both opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary research and infrastructure development especially in the digital humanities and social sciences.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/article/download/12241/10122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147881842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DHNB2023 Conference Proceedings","authors":"Annika Rockenberger, Sofie Gilbert, Juliane Tiemann","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10742","url":null,"abstract":"The DHNB2023 conference proceedings combine 25 full papers from the 7th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries conference and an editorial summarising the event. The conference theme was Sustainability: Environment, Community, Data and it was jointly arranged by the University of Oslo Library, the University of Bergen Library, and The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger from March 8th to 10th, 2023.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"16 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134953839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Sustainable West? Analyzing Clusters of Public Opinion in Sustainability Western Discourses in a Collection of Multilingual Newspapers (1999-2018)","authors":"Elena Fernández Fernández, Germans Savcisens","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10660","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyze the temporal and geographic evolution of sustainability-related discourses over a time frame of twenty years (1999-2018). We use a collection of multilingual newspapers in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, as a proxy. We filter documents using four key terms: sustainable development, climate change, environment, and pollution, seeking to explore how different newspapers encode the same message, aiming to detect points of contact (agreement) and rupture (polarity). Our methodology includes Topic Modelling (Pachinko Allocation [1]), word embeddings [2], Ward’s hierarchical cluster analysis [3], and network analysis [4]. Our results show a progressive simplification of semantic fields over time, reflecting less polarizing views across countries and, therefore, showing an increasing agreement on sustainability-related discourses in our contemporary societies. Moreover, we also notice little variation of newspapers rhetorics over time. Therefore, this article also contributes with a meta-reflection about newspapers behaviour as information containers.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mats Fridlund, Azar Michael, Daniel Brodén, McGuire Michael
{"title":"Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism: Close and Distant Readings of Political Terror in Swedish News and Fiction During the Cold War","authors":"Mats Fridlund, Azar Michael, Daniel Brodén, McGuire Michael","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10653","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 The digital history project ’The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism’ (2022–2025) examines the cultural meaning-making of political terror in Swedish nonfiction and fiction during the Cold War, a critical period for the formation of the international discourse on terrorism. To explore the Swedish ‘cultural imaginary of terrorism’ is to study how a society makes sense of terrorism and itself in relation to the phenomenon through figures of thought, frames of reference and fantasies in, among other things, national newspapers and periodicals. This paper gives an overview of the project, demonstrating our integrative use of distant and close reading methods through a pilot study of elements of the cultural imaginary of terrorism as represented in the conservative periodical Svensk Tidskrift 1945–1991. Our exploratory analysis focuses on the extraction of relevant texts, the visualization and mapping of the discourse through the development of key terms as well as individuals, places, groups and states associated with political terror and terrorism. We conclude by stressing the benefits of an integrative research design drawing upon complementary perspectives: how our text mining methods allow us to identify significant patterns in the text data and how our historical expertise allows us to single out aspects that call for further investigation.
 
 
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{"title":"The Digital Lab as an arena for teaching and outreach activities connected to the Special Collections at the University Library of Bergen","authors":"Emma Josefin Ölander Aadland","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10658","url":null,"abstract":"The Digital Lab at the University of Bergen Library was established in 2020 and is set up to be an interdisciplinary hub for researchers, lecturers, and students, both on-site and digitally. The lab provides a space to learn, to discuss, and to apply various digital tools and methods used in research within the Digital Humanities. Each semester the lab sets up different courses, workshops, seminars, and lectures aiming to support and serve the target groups. This paper presents a case study that investigates how the Digital Lab can provide an arena for DH activities connected to the Special Collections at the library. The aim is to explore how these activities can have a cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach, and to investigate the lab’s potential as a community-building arena and its impact on the involvement of the library and the librarian‘s role in DH.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives on sustainable dislocated digital research resources","authors":"Andrea Alessandro Gasparini, Tom Gheldof","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10672","url":null,"abstract":"In difficult times, researchers often react promptly and adapt to a new situation, still focusing on the core values. In the upheavals of technology, researchers in Digital Humanities have also created innovative solutions. However, significant issues are associated with sustainable ingredients. First, software often emerges and disappears, leaving valuable data in the wild or causing costs in maintaining technological competences in the organization. Second, storing databases that have reached the end-of-life stage remains an unresolved issue. Third, knowledge and data can be closed inside a database and are often inaccessible to all. Finally, Digital Humanities must play a crucial role as a supporter of a sustainable world by rethinking its approaches. This paper uses ENCODE (an Erasmus+ funded project to bridge the gap between training and digital competences in the teaching/learning domain of ancient writing cultures) as a case study to examine some of the aforementioned issues.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy Issues vs. Documentation: Using BERTopic to Gain Insight in the Political Communication in Instagram Stories and Posts during the 2021 German Federal Election Campaign","authors":"Michael Achmann, Christian Wolff","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10647","url":null,"abstract":"We give first insights in the political communication of the 2021 Federal election campaign in Germany. We focused on political messages found in ephemeral stories (n=2208) and permanent posts (n=718) shared in the last fortnight of the campaign. Topic modeling with BERTopic did not yield topics as finely grained as the categories of prior content analyses, yet two main themes emerged: The majority of posts deal with policy issues, while the majority of stories does not deal with policy issues. We found a large body of stories to be documentation of the rallies and campaign trail.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benign Structures. The Worldview of Danish National Poet, Pastor, and Politician N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872)","authors":"Katrine F. Baunvig, Kristoffer Nielbo","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10646","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of the central Danish 19th-century figure N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) and his worldview. More precisely, by way of simple neural word embeddings we seek to plot Grundtvig’s worldview in attempt to tease out factors explaining for his cultural and religious success as a poet. We arrive at the conclusion that one factor for Grundtvig’s relative success could be found in his explicitly positive worldview fit for modern conditions.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Senka Drobac, Johanna Enqvist, Petri Leskinen, Muhammad Faiz Wahjoe, Heikki Rantala, Mikko Koho, Ilona Pikkanen, Iida Jauhiainen, Jouni Tuominen, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Matti La Mela, Eero Hyvönen
{"title":"The Laborious Cleaning: Acquiring and Transforming 19th-Century Epistolary Metadata","authors":"Senka Drobac, Johanna Enqvist, Petri Leskinen, Muhammad Faiz Wahjoe, Heikki Rantala, Mikko Koho, Ilona Pikkanen, Iida Jauhiainen, Jouni Tuominen, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Matti La Mela, Eero Hyvönen","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10669","url":null,"abstract":"The paper documents the process of collecting, consolidating, and publishing epistolary metadata from Finnish cultural heritage organizations to create an archive for bottom-up analyses of 19th-century epistolary culture. We describe and discuss the data survey that was conducted to gather information about available letter collections across Finland, as well as the cleaning and harmonizing of over 350,000 letters from twelve different sources in various digital formats. We have also developed a data model that combines event-based and letter-based aspects of the metadata. Furthermore, the paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the initial phases of data-intensive research and the importance of discussing the labor of cleaning data. We believe that our experiences described in this paper can have wider significance for other digital humanities projects in Europe.","PeriodicalId":480109,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136360789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Sentiment of Latvian Twitter Food Posts in Various Weather Conditions","authors":"Maija Kāle, Matīss Rikters","doi":"10.5617/dhnbpub.10666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10666","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 Food choice is a complex phenomenon influenced by factors such as taste, environment, culture, weather and many others. Although people spend most of their lives indoors, weather conditions remain influential, both in shaping seasonal food cultures in particular geographical areas and in influencing individual choices. With the recent increase in the availability of datasets on food and its perception as reflected in Twitter and historical weather data, we seek to explore food-related tweets in different weather conditions. In this paper, we examine a Latvian food tweet dataset covering the last decade in conjunction with a weather observation dataset consisting of average temperature, precipitation and other phenomena. We find out which weather conditions lead to specific food information sharing; we automatically classify tweet sentiment and discuss how it changes depending on the weather. We also explore the dynamics of sentiment related to meat and meat consumption on Twitter over a ten-year period. The rationale for focusing on tweeters’ sentiments about different meat-containing foods is due to the emergence of new discourses related to food consumption - the meat industry’s impact on planetary health, the levels of biodiversity, pollution and CO2 that influence and shape climate change, as well as the planet’s ecosystems as a whole.
 
 
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