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- Brodén, Daniel, 1975, et al.
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The diachrony of the new political terrorism: Neologisms as discursive framing in Swedish parliamentary data 1971–2018
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. - 2704-1441. ; 5:1, s. 79-89
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper begins to unpack the framing of terrorism in the Swedish Parliament through distant reading and by chronologically extracting neologisms in a comprehensive corpus of transcripts of parliamentary debates. Combining language technology and historical contextualization, we find support for the argument that the term ‘terrorism’ gained much of its modern meaning around 1970. Specifically, our study points to a legislative framing of the issue of terrorism in Swedish parliamentary debate from the early 1970s and onwards. We also find a proliferation in the production of neologisms and compounds after 9/11 2001, reflecting, among other things, the rise of a more distinct counter-terrorism discourse and more ‘specialized’ roles and functions related to terrorism and counter-terrorism activities. The paper concludes by emphasizing the analytical benefits of tracing parliamentary discourse through neologisms as an explorative approach to identify significant patterns for further investigation.
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- Fridlund, Mats, 1965, et al.
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Engineering Terrorismmindedness: A Scientometric Study of the 9/11-effect on STEM Research, 1989-2022
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. - 2704-1441. ; 5:1, s. 188-202, s. 188-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study terrorism’s shaping of STEM research through the development within engineer-ing research of a ‘terrorismmindedness’, i.e. terrorist threat domestication through integra-tion in research practice. This is done by a distant reading of how research in the engineer-ing sciences is increasingly addressing terrorism-related topics. By means of an in-depth bibliometric analysis of some 3.000 terrorism-related scientific articles published 1989–2022, we construct within the subject area ‘Engineering’ in Web of Science its research subfield ‘Terrorism Related Engineering Research’. The publications are analysed by bib-liometric mapping, co-occurrence text measures and ‘algorithmic historiography’ using the HistCite tool. Papers cited together are mapped using VOSviewer to identify concepts and the results are clustered according to topicality, revealing the various terrorism-related re-search interests among engineering scientists.
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- Fridlund, Mats, 1965, et al.
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The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism: Close and Distant Readings of Political Terror in Swedish News and Fiction During the Cold War
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. - 2704-1441. ; 5:1, s. 90-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Martin, Benjamin, et al.
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Nature and Culture in the Age of Environmental Crisis : Digital Analysis of a Global Debate in The UNESCO Courier, 1948-2020
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. - : University of Oslo Library. - 2704-1441. ; 5:1, s. 274-286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study uses digital text analysis, focusing on LDA topic modeling, to conduct a historical investigation of the relationship between the concepts of nature and culture found in the pages of the official magazine of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, The UNESCO Courier, between 1948 and 2020. The relationship between the concepts of nature and culture has historically been at the core of concerns about the environment and sustainability; Courier offers a means of charting a global conversation on these concepts. After presenting the corpus and our methods, the paper documents three approaches to LDA topic modeling that we have tested, through which we seek to make topic modeling useful for the field of conceptual history. Our empirical findings suggest that the concepts of nature and culture have come to be increasingly close over the course of the last six decades, while the stakes of the very distinction between the concepts have changed radically. Our methodological tests support the argument that topic modeling can be a valuable tool for conceptual history, albeit one that must be handled with care.
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- Matsson, Arild, 1990, et al.
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Building and Serving the Queerlit Thesaurus as Linked Open Data
- 2023
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Ingår i: DHNB2023 Conference Proceedings. Sustainability: Environment - Community - Data. The 7thDigital Humanities in the Nordic and BalticCountries Conference. Oslo – Stavanger – Bergen, Norway. March 8–10, 2023. - Oslo : Universitetet i Oslo. - 2704-1441.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes the creation of the Queer Literature Indexing Thesaurus (QLIT) as well as the digital infrastructure supporting the workflow for editing and publishing it. The purpose of QLIT is to adequately catalogue Swedish fiction with LGBTQI themes. It is continually edited in plain-text RDF and automatically processed for correctness and storage. Finally, it is published online as Linked Open Data and used with external systems. The technical approach relies on scripts and applications developed ad hoc, rather than existing solutions. Code is available on https://github.com/gu-gridh/queerlit-terms
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