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- Brauer, ReneUniversity of Gothenburg, Sweden (author)
The digital shaping of humanities research : The emergence of Topic Modeling within historical studies
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- The epistemological affordances of technologies such as the Internet and computers are – yet again – offering promising and threatening opportunities to reshape humanistic research. The large digitization efforts within humanities has created new kinds of ‘big data’ textual source materials only a ’mouse click away’ (e.g. Google books, JSTOR or the Bodleian Digital Library). This socio-technical development presents new epistemological challenges for research within various humanities disciplines. To aid this effort, some researchers are turning to new kinds of (digital) data-mining methods to tackle this complexity. The subject of this study, topic modeling (TM) is such a digital humanities method. The presentation systematically surveys academic applications of topic modelling – an algorithm that parameterizes word concurrences – within historical research. The aim is to answer questions such as; what are the stated benefits of TM, whether there is qualitative differences between TM and traditional methods, and what new epistemological challenges TM creates for historical research? Our starting point is 2004 with the first peer-reviewed historical article and end point in 2013 with the publication of a special journal issue on applications of TM. Our preliminary results show that TM indeed affords new possibilities of innovative qualitative approaches in historical research. However, for all practical purposes TM is, as of yet, not a ‘black-boxed technology’ as many of its key variables still lack general agreed upon standards. This incorporation of TM within historical studies appears to be analogues to earlier developments in disciplines such as; human geography or psychology. These earlier introductions of quantitative tools and methodologies into previously qualitatively dominated disciplines ultimately changed the character of these disciplines. If this will occur within historical studies or humanities remains to be seen.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Annan samhällsvetenskap Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap hsv//swe
- SOCIAL SCIENCES Other Social Sciences Social Sciences Interdisciplinary hsv//eng
- HUMANIORA Historia och arkeologi Historia hsv//swe
- HUMANITIES History and Archaeology History hsv//eng
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning hsv//swe
- SOCIAL SCIENCES Media and Communications Information Systems, Social aspects hsv//eng
- NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Information Systems hsv//eng
- NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Språkteknologi hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Language Technology hsv//eng
- topic modeling
- research technology development
- ‘black boxing’ technology
- history studies
- digital
- Historia
- History
- Data- och informationsvetenskap
- Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science
- Social Sciences
- Samhällsvetenskap
- topic modeling
- research technology development
- ‘black boxing’ technology
- history studies
- digital humanities
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- Dymitrow, MirekGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Kulturgeografi,Department of Economy and Society, Unit for Human Geography,University of Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xdymmi (author)
- Fridlund, Mats,1965University of Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xfrimf (author)
- University of Gothenburg, SwedenInstitutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Kulturgeografi (creator_code:org_t)
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- In:DASTS 2014 Conference: “Enacting Futures”, Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS), Roskilde University, 12–13 June 2014, Roskilde, Denmark, s. 52-52
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