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The integration of digital technologies into social science has catalyzed the development of fields such as digital sociology, digital humanities, and digital social sciences more broadly. This technological shift has significant methodological implications for social science research, which are being increasingly discussed. This discussion raises critical questions about the potential and limitations of merging traditional social research methodologies with digital innovations. Digitized and digital methods have brought about promises of a new era in social science research. However, some scholars have highlighted the challenges and limitations associated with this methodological transition, including data-relevant considerations, skill and expertise issues, and ethical concerns. From the vantage point of advancements in science and technology studies (STS) – a discipline that has engaged with the methods and practices of knowledge production for some decades – I will explore five additional methodological challenges posed by the digitization of social science research that has been largely overlooked or neglected in the literature of digital methods. Our analysis concludes that while digital methods can serve as valuable complementary tools, they are not sufficient to fully engage with the core practices and phenomena of social science research. Thus, digital and traditional methods can coexist, albeit not in a symmetrical manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research in the field of History of Education has experienced a remarkable increase in recent decades. Resulting publications are referenced in generalist databases that do not catalogue academic works according to the specific characteristics of History of Education. Seeking to give response to this bibliographic gap, we are developing a database catered for historians of education that aims to map out present, past, and future research. Conceived within the framework of Digital Humanities/Digital History, Hecumen is being designed, with the aid of Artificial Intelligence, as an open access finding aid that permits (1) conducting specific and multilevel complex engine searches, (2) having a panoramic view of publications; (3) mapping out relevant/missing areas of research, and, ultimately, (4) keeping up to date with the research produced by historians of education. This paper presents, contextualises, and problematises Hecumen – a digital tool that will facilitate and boost History of Education research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Swiss physician and philosopher Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541) is known for his strong advocacy of medical alchemy. That his natural philosophy was tied to medical alchemy is perhaps uncontroversial, but just how it was so is less straightforward. This article provides an insight into the connection between the two by means of Paracelsus's concept of active agents, with an emphasis on fire, its master Vulcanus, and the associated term Archeus. I will show how these evolved in the thought of Paracelsus by taking an evolutionary view of his works. The complexity of his views comes to light as a result of employing the method of hybrid reading, which integrates the traditional close reading technique with the much more novel one of distant reading. The latter is part of the emerging field of digital and computational humanities, and involves the analysis of corpora by means of digital tools, including computer programming (Python). In the article, I will attempt to combine distant and close reading and showcase how such hybrid reading approaches may provide new insights into historical corpora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Menasseh ben-Israel petitioned to re-admit Jews to England in 1655. Historians have been aware that Menasseh utilized the ideas employed by Simone Luzzatto in Luzzatto’s efforts to avoid the expulsion of the Jews from Venice. Luzzatto employed the humanist language of reason of state, while Menasseh’s writings were all exegetical in nature prior to 1655. How did Menasseh, a messianist whose writings focused on explaining Jewish thought, who had shown no interest in humanist political discourse, come to employ the humanist ideas of reason of state popular in the mid-seventeenth century? Furthermore, Luzzatto’s petition is a meek request to allow Jews to continue to reside in the Venetian ghetto, while Menasseh addresses Cromwell as an ambassador of one nation to the leader of another boldly requesting to be admitted to England without disabilities. How can we explain this dramatic change in tone? This paper traces the links, as well as the crucial differences, between these two petitions by examining several other petitions on behalf of Atlantic Jewry as well as the international developments in the intervening period. This paper argues that these factors were critical in the development of Menasseh’s thought as well as his choice of language and tone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article comprises a biography of George Freeman, an African boy ‘liberated’ from enslavement in West Africa and relocated to the countryside of Berkshire, UK. The article contributes to scholarship on the long-term presence and lived experiences of Black people in Britain, using digital humanities techniques and parochial records from the county of Berkshire to map the presence of Black people (and other minority ethnicities) in rural English counties. It also uses Freeman’s biography to engage in wider discussions concerning the precarious experiences of ‘Liberated Africans’. These two research areas are combined to construct Freeman’s biography as a global microhistory, adding to the growing scholarship that aims to overcome these areas of archival silence within histories of slavery and abolition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Textile Makerspace: Digital Humanities Meets Craft" explores the intersection of textile craft, storytelling, and data in a unique makerspace at Stanford University. The Textile Makerspace provides a space for various crafts like sewing, knitting, and embroidery, attracting students and staff. The author delves into using textile methods for data visualizations and storytelling, as well as merging weaving with legal advocacy in digital humanities. The article also discusses a petition by the Authors Alliance to expand an exemption for text and data mining, showcasing the potential of computational text analysis through craft-based visualizations. Lastly, a Data Visualization with Textiles course at Stanford encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and experimentation to break traditional modes of scholarship in the humanities. [Extracted from the article]

This study undertakes a digito-linguistic analysis of the 2019 Inauguration/Democracy speech of former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s with a view to identifying the various discursive structures in the speech and the social functions they perform. The study adopts van Dijk’s socio-cognitive theory of critical discourse analysis as a theoretical framework. Data were selected through the purposive sampling method and subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis. The study identifies fourteen discursive structures: actor description, authority, comparison, disclaimer, euphemism, evidentiality, example/illustration, irony, lexicalisation, metaphor, self-glorification, norm expression, number game, us-them, pervading the five discourse strategies in Buharis’s speech. The discourse strategies which include: number game; self-glorification; validation of the Nigeria project; highlighting of achievements, and deployment of escapist statements, are engaged to: express commitment to the development of the nation, give a positive self-representation, and dissociate from Nigeria’s woes. Voyant tools reveal the preponderance of Buhari’s expression of commitment to the Nigerian course. The study concludes that Buhari uses his Democracy/Inauguration speech to emphasise the importance of the Nigeria project and to call for social change among Nigerians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores TikTok's impact on the aesthetics of visual anthropology's methods and highlights epistemic implications. TikTok engenders new inquiries regarding the position and role of researchers, and the spatiality and temporality of digital research. This article offers a reflection on the specific aesthetic characteristics that shape ethnographic investigations on, and with, TikTok. Further, we argue that the influence of algorithms on digital creations necessitates critical reflection on the researcher's engagement and analysis of visual data. Finally, we suggest that the figure of the anthropologist as "curator" might inspire a creative navigation of these complex digital waters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Grand Paris has been partly constructed around the markers provided in the major regional plans that have punctuated the development of the Greater Paris region, from the 1913 'Report for the enlargement of Paris' to the 2009 'Grand Paris international consultation process'. By providing an epistemic framework for understanding the major regional plans, this article clearly posits that their history – i.e., both their succession and development – has a structuring impact on the 'reality' constituted by 'Grand Paris'. The research we present here was conducted as part of the Inventing Grand Paris research programme with the objective of visualizing what we have termed the 'depth of plans', their contents and conflicts as well as their nature and temporality. To this end, a research device was created in the form of a digital 'Atlas of Grand Paris plans'. By presenting the vast corpus of archives generated by the development of regional plans, this helps present a nuanced perspective and clarify the complexity of the metropolitan dynamics of Greater Paris. By looking at the possibilities it opens up for understanding the process, this article ultimately explores the way in which the digital humanities can contribute to the history of planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the opportunities for academic libraries to engage as a partner in digital initiatives in academia have expanded significantly. The traditional focus on digitization, preservation, and dissemination of collections has developed and shifted considerably, bringing new strategies for adequately serving the changed academic needs, as well as building and utilizing different types of collections. The goal of this article is to elaborate on these strategic shifts by presenting one of Panitza Library's newest digital collections projects – the Sound Library of the American University in Bulgaria, thus sharing insights into the practical process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses Shelley Jackson's 1995 hypertext novel Patchwork Girl (PG) through the lens of intersectional feminist digital humanities scholarship. PG is a fascinating electronic literature artifact because scholars pronounced hypertext dead almost a quarter century ago. Hypertext was confirmed dead by Nick Montfort in 2000, though Montfort stipulated that the hypertext corpus could be resurrected. This article argues that PG's various resurrections qualify it to be considered an undead hypertext and re-centres hypertext's strong ties to intersectional feminist digital humanities scholarship, taking up Roopika Risam's call to resist the reinscription of the exclusionary universal subject so often defaulted to in contemporary scholarship and demonstrating how PG creates the antithesis to an exclusionary universal subject through the literal and metaphoric multiplicity of its titular protagonist. With a body made up of pieces of other women's bodies—pieces which retain their original personalities—Patchwork Girl is, as Marie Mulvey-Roberts dubbed her, the Everywoman. And as the Everywoman, she is able to take on the role of inclusionary universal subject, thereby making her a prototype of the sort of character capable of dismantling the restrictive notions of the exclusionary universal subject that Risam so adeptly identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chromakey has historically served as a promiscuous interlocutor between the real and virtual in which color anticipates a thing yet to exist. In this sense, chromakey performs as a placeholder that denies fidelity to either physical or virtual arenas; instead conjuring new spaces of contradiction superimposed with multiplicitous agencies. This essay examines the genealogy of chromakey while conceptualizing placeholders as spaces that leave room for something that might change, transform, and transverse. The popular usage of chromakey is tracked alongside artists whose work subverts the technology to inform an architectural design studio that critically examines the techniques, visual regimes, and cultural manifestations of contemporary digital spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital history started to flourish in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and early 2010s. But some of this momentum has since been lost due to ageing technologies, a lack of supporting infrastructure, funding issues, discontinued projects, and limited teaching and training opportunities. This 'state of the field' article on digital history seeks to encourage greater reflexivity in the discipline by providing a detailed overview of the local context. It highlights some of the longstanding projects that continue to dominate the digital history landscape, while also exploring newly emerging innovations, opportunities and challenges. Examining such topics as infrastructure and tool development, digital archives and repositories, big history, public history, digital methods, and teaching, the authors conclude that additional investment is required to support progress in the field, and to ensure that past projects and data remain accessible into the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Semantically enriched historical newspapers offer a multitude of opportunities for data-driven exploration and analysis. In this paper we introduce the impresso interface which integrates several types of semantic enrichments and data visualization and thereby supports new exploratory workflows and the critical assessment of large-scale digitized source collections. The interface targets historians and integrates search, filtering, comparison, and recommendation based on automatically detected topics, linked named entities, text reuse, n-grams, image similarity, language, and OCR quality. We introduce the theoretical principles which guided interface development and reflect on the user requirements gathering process together with a case-study driven exemplification of novel workflows facilitated by the interface. We conclude with an overview of accompanying educational materials and discuss results from a user evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of exhibitions in promoting scholarly research and collection development, specifically in the field of historical map scholarship. The author reflects on their career at the Newberry Library and the impact of changes in the field, such as a shift towards a processual approach to map study. The author also describes their final exhibition, "Crossings: Mapping American Journeys," which aimed to showcase the Newberry's collection of maps, guidebooks, and travel accounts related to the United States. The exhibition sought to explore the history of travel mapping, including the experiences of marginalized groups such as migrants and enslaved individuals. The author explains their approach to representing these diverse travel experiences in the exhibition, using maps, non-cartographic objects, and multimedia elements. The exhibition was designed as a map itself, allowing visitors to see the connections between different travel experiences. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents a case study on integrating a text and data mining (TDM) assignment into the Research Methods for Performers course for music graduate students. The objective was to introduce data research methods to performing arts students and expand their understanding of the scope and possibilities of research in music through the application of digital humanities in the study of music. The project was accomplished using ProQuest TDM Studio, a user-friendly tool for data exploration and visualization using built-in datasets. This article discusses the implementation process, learning objectives, methods and concepts, and recommendations for similar applications. Incorporating TDM activities into the Research Methods for Performers course enhanced students' understanding of the scope of music research and exposed them to methods that expanded their research skillset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital recording technologies such as lidar and photogrammetry bring higher efficiency to archaeological recording, as well as the allure of automation. How do the promises of the digital age impact the role and methods of field architects, members of an archaeological team responsible for illustrating architectural finds? Between 2011 and 2022, University of Maryland field architects grappled with this question while recording the frescoed rooms of the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae. Like other Roman houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius in a.d. 79, the villa contains many building phases, destruction deposits, and large spaces adorned with detailed frescoes. To accurately capture this diversity, the field team integrated several digital-assisted recording techniques with traditional manual approaches. While electronic technologies aided the architects in measuring the villa at multiple scales, we found that they could not replace the field architect's capacity for granular first-hand observation, historical learning, and interpretation of archaeological signatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, entry to Japan was heavily restricted causing challenges to research and study opportunities. This extended exclusion from Japan has since emphasised questions about the way in which we approach Japanese Studies in the future, and the nature of academic field research more broadly. In this article, we explore these through an innovative digitised 'field trip from home' class that we ran for undergraduate students in 2020 as a replacement for in-country fieldwork. Based on these experiences we argue that, while digital approaches are not a replacement for classic field research, digital approaches to scholarship and pedagogy within Japanese studies and related subjects can help to enhance on-site physical field practices and their position in our subjects. We discuss our findings as an example of 'patchwork ethnography' through how pandemic-era teaching and research experiences have shone a spotlight on the necessity to rethink the possibilities for classic fieldwork within contemporary academia. As we move beyond the pandemic, we conclude that the future will require both the reopening of borders and the necessary resources to better support the development of both digital and in person fieldwork training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the trends of digital humanities and interdisciplinarity, there is growing interest in exploring the discursive aspects of translation and interpreting (T&I), drawing on the triangulation between Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics. The comparative nature of this line of research means that bilingual discourse analysis differs from monolingual CDA. Despite its usefulness, traditional CDA was designed for monolingual qualitative analysis and applying it systematically to the corpus analysis of bilingual discourses is less straightforward. So far T&I scholars have explored individual discursive categories (e.g., modality) in a few individual studies. However, there is a lack of overall methodological reflections on the likely ideologically salient categories and how to detect translators and interpreters’ mediation comprehensively. Therefore, a stratified framework is proposed, promising to shed light on the question relating to what CDA researchers might look out for empirically drawing on a corpus approach. The various discursive categories/ toolkits covered in this framework potentially serve as a starting point for future studies concerning comparative CDA studies at different levels of abstraction. Rather than being prescriptivist, the proposed layered framework is open-ended, flexible and pragmatic, focusing both on propositional and non-propositional contents and both preconceived a priori experientialist categories and serendipitous discoveries. Illustrative examples from various discursive categories are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the complexities of creating an archive – in our case, a digital archive of eighteenth-century manuscript letters, The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). Elizabeth Montagu was one of the most prominent and well-connected women in eighteenth-century polite society. EMCO faces a variety of challenges. Firstly, the project aims to trace all extant letters in different libraries and public/private collections; secondly, it seeks to amalgamate the extant correspondence into one digital repository and a comprehensive inventory; thirdly, it mobilises a team of scholars to transcribe, annotate and develop a critical apparatus; fourthly, EMCO seeks to develop digital tools that foster novel methods of scholarly research and debate. Taking recent scholarship on board, this article concludes by reflecting on the complexities of marrying a data-rich digital edition with literary methodologies that allow both close reading and analysis of the scope and materiality of the archive and its objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of a linguistic collective identity uses a pool of conscious and unconscious elements that deal with age, gender, or ethnic belonging. In the Irish communicative system, one presentday type of collective masculine identity is that of "the lads." Previous studies on "laddish" behaviour and performance from literary or social perspectives explored conduct in contexts such as sports, violence, sex, or alcohol. To encourage interdisciplinary research in the field of Irish Studies, this paper analyses the language of "the lads" in literary discourse through corpus linguistics as a contribution to the field of digital humanities. Fourteen novels make up the specialised corpus on which the analysis is based paying attention to verbs of speech and adverbs. The verbs show utterances by "the lads" illustrating and providing aggressiveness and adverbs provide a second layer of meaning. Finally, a number of power struggles these characters experience in interaction are studied to differentiate the status quo of "the lads.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conference in 2022 focused on the theme of "Digital Sustainability" in response to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and climate catastrophe. The pandemic had a significant impact on the creative and cultural industries, with closures and social distancing measures leading to job losses and revenue decline. However, the conference showcased how artists and creatives were able to innovate and adapt to the challenges, using digital technology to develop new approaches to their work. The conference also explored the intersection of digital technology and climate change, with contributions highlighting the potential of digital technologies to facilitate positive action and address the effects of climate catastrophe. The conference emphasized the importance of nurturing the socially beneficial aspects of digital technologies and improving access in all parts of the world. Overall, the conference demonstrated the resilience and innovative capabilities of artists and creatives in the face of adversity, and the potential of digital technology to drive positive change in the arts and humanities. [Extracted from the article]

This work arises in the context of the interdisciplinary research group hosted at the Laboratory of Innovation and Territory of the Department of Design of the Catholic University of Temuco. In this research, we delve into protecting indigenous cultural rights by proposing an experimental methodology from developing prototypes defining various approaches and attempting to create new cultural-based proposals. They all comprise the body of our method of approach to the digital humanities on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the original peoples that inhabited the current Chilean territory. We highlight the use of digital prototyping platforms, some of them based on expert models in artificial intelligence and others based on the development of generative and parametric algorithms, making a distinction between these two technologies that in their combination offer a panorama of infinite interactions, possibilities, allowing us to configure a transcultural language where the elements are translated into a generic programming language, where we can change the category of the original information, these categories are image, text, and sound. In this process, we declare our research problem: how to use the records of the intangible cultural heritage of the native peoples to design new artistic interpretations without falling into cultural appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need to sustain data and outputs from research projects well beyond their initial grant-funded period is commonplace within academia, particularly so within the Humanities. We often find that these semi-active or warm data collections have value and require care beyond the life of the original hosting, system, or platform they were conceived upon. With the increasing demand to make data more open, and research funding bodies increasing requirements and time periods for which research data must remain available, institutions need to be ready to offer researchers the tools and platforms to comply. Compliance is one lens to view this particular challenge through, the other is that institutions should also be motivated by celebrating the research they develop, and the continued scholarly benefits and impact gained through being hosted and shared for as long as possible. This paper offers a practical insight into the methods being employed at the University of Oxford to support digital humanities scholars (and others) safeguard their digital legacy for future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of Ibsen studies has embraced digital approaches, with a range of resources and research methods available. This shift began in the 1970s with the idea of creating a comprehensive Ibsen concordance using computer technology. The digital humanities emerged in the late 1990s, combining traditional humanities with computational methods. The digital age has transformed the study of Ibsen, with the transition from print to digital publication and the proliferation of digital resources. These resources include philology projects, metadata collections, and web portals. The impact of the digital humanities on Ibsen studies has been significant, providing new research opportunities and access to cultural heritage. The text focuses on digital projects developed in Norway, such as Ibsen.net, IbsenStage, and the Virtual Ibsen Centre, which offer scholarly resources, performance data, critical texts, and visual materials related to Henrik Ibsen. The collaboration between the Centre for Ibsen Studies and the National Library of Norway in developing digital research infrastructure is also mentioned. The text concludes by suggesting future directions for digital humanities research in Ibsen studies, including exploring lost theatre venues, utilizing DH lab services, and incorporating critical perspectives. [Extracted from the article]

This article provides a concise history of Ibsen reception studies, which examines how readers, viewers, and audiences interpret and respond to Henrik Ibsen's plays. It traces the development of this field from the late 19th century to the present day, highlighting the contributions of critics and scholars from various countries. The article emphasizes the global reception of Ibsen's plays, discussing their impact on different cultures and the challenges faced by reception studies. It also emphasizes the importance of understanding Ibsen's reception as a complex negotiation between established foreign traditions and new territories where his works were adapted to local cultures. The article concludes by discussing the potential for future research in Ibsen reception studies, particularly in the field of digital humanities. [Extracted from the article]

The Centre for Ibsen Studies (CIS) at the University of Oslo, established in 1992, has played a significant role in research, teaching, and public outreach related to Henrik Ibsen and his works. The center has its own director, budget, and advisory board, and collaborates closely with the National Library of Norway. It has undergone three phases of development, expanding its offerings to include an English-language master's program in Ibsen Studies and publishing scholarly works. The center has also focused on acquiring external funding for research projects and expanding its digital resources. The center's master's program continues to attract students from around the world, and it has made notable contributions to the field of Ibsen studies, particularly in reception studies, performance studies, adaptation studies, and digital approaches. The journal Ibsen Studies, published by the center, is an important archive of its work. [Extracted from the article]

Digital Humanities (DH), as an emergent field, is increasingly gaining traction within the Indian academe. It is credited with pumping fresh life into studying the Humanities at a time when the relevance of Humanities is being questioned. However, the role of the 'digital' in studying the Humanities - whether DH is an autonomous field, or merely a data-driven technique/application, or characterises new methodologies that equip us to probe into new 'objects of inquiries - is often debated. In this article, we revisit the debates, contentions and contingencies around DH, with the intent to stir up conversations on the concerns about and faultlines of what may be referred to as an 'Indian framework' of DH practice. We examine the constituency of DH in India and the epistemic implications of the attempts towards its formalisation, which must be understood as a knowledge project linked to the prevailing episteme. In brief, we examine the 'epistemic rupture' that marks the emergence of DH in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These notes are based on an ongoing project for building an archive of a premier women's college, Miranda House (established 1948), University of Delhi. We begin with a brief overview of the processes and methodologies involved in identifying materials to shape our collection, discuss processes of cataloguing, digitization, planning digital collections and a website. Our collection lies at the cusp of being an institutional archive, women's archive, archive of college women as well as an archive for doing public history. Despite the challenges of infrastructure, trained staff, technological expertise, digital humanities offer us immensely exciting possibilities. We use social media to reach out to alumni to build our collections, social media presence to showcase our materials, digital tools to widen access, share skills and create awareness regarding the significance of archiving the history of college women. Our attempts at DH have been quite successful. However, as DH opens up a plethora of opportunities, doing digital history also has its methodological challenges as well as conceptual and financial concerns for feminist projects like ours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 1960s, African Americans have advocated to be systematically represented and addressed in planning education and practice. Despite burgeoning diversity work, it is unclear how specifically planning scholars have listened. Using a bibliometric and content analysis of the 21 oldest and most-cited planning journals, I analyzed the presence of race, diversity, and African Americans in 19,645 peer-reviewed research articles published between 1990 and 2020. Of these articles, only 4.8% focused explicitly on racial diversity in the abstracts, titles, keywords, or within their main text. Within these 944 U.S. diversity articles, nearly one-fourth (24.47%, n = 231) focused on African Americans. Overall, just 1.17% of the total U.S.-focused planning research in these journals focused on African Americans in this 3-decade period. Of these Black urbanism research articles, an evolving set of 34 themes and 105 story beats built on each other in six story arcs: a) Black housing, segregation, and gentrification; b) Black entrepreneurship and employment; c) Black ecology and environmentalism; d) Black arts, culture, and politics; and e) Black intersectionality. In addition to offering the first quantitative study on Black urbanism since 1990, two main analytical insights are that Black urbanism is a small literature, and specific contours exist to grow Black urbanism beyond its small canon in planning. Limitations to these findings include the small literature size, the lack of engagement with Black urbanism in a broader context than planning, technological barriers for mining older articles from archived databases, and understanding Black urbanism beyond a provincial focus on the United States. I offer two suggestions for planning scholars and practitioners: Avoid race-neutral diversity language when practicing in or publishing about Black contexts and recognize that a canon of Black urbanism exists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As historians start researching the late twentieth century, they are increasingly finding traces of the past created digitally. At the same time, use of computers to digitise analogue material means that many pre-digital sources have been reproduced digitally. As such, future historical research will increasingly include digital forms of evidence and computer-based research tools. This article explores how such resources might be used within business history, bridging the gap to digital history, and reflecting upon their methodological implications. We present a framework for distinguishing between sources, elaborating their differing digital characteristics and historical authenticity. We then draw on our own use of digital company records and media archives to outline two different ways digital sources can be interrogated by business historians. We argue that digital sources afford unique insights and new opportunities for historical knowledge production, but to access them, business historians will likely adapt aspects of their future practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Differences in magazines content aimed specifically at women or men are a means to create and reproduce gender stereotypes. Novel computational tools allow to study differences in magazines content taking into account all available articles. In this study, we analyse the case of two Argentinian magazines published by the same publishing house over a decade (2008–2018), advertised by the publishing house as targeting women and men respectively. Using computational tools, we are able to analyse more than 24,000 articles, which would have been an impossible task using manual content analysis methodologies. With Topic Modelling techniques we identify the main themes discussed in the magazines and quantify their different frequency between magazines over time. Then, we performed a word-frequency analysis to validate this methodology and extend the analysis to other subjects. Our results show that topics such as Family, Business and Women as sex objects present an initial bias that tends to disappear over time. Conversely, in Fashion and Science topics, the initial differences are maintained. Also, we identify a considerable increase in the use of words associated with feminism since 2015 and specifically the word abortion in 2018. Furthermore, we develop a website where everyone can perform additional analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on the period between 1994 and 2006, this study of the Soros Foundation and its spin-offs employs a mixed-method approach to explore the structure of the visual arts scene in Croatia and the role of Soros Foundation organisations within it. Based on a quantitative analysis of network visualisations and a qualitative structural analysis of narrative interviews, which are theoretically framed around the notions of network and complexity, the article moves the research agenda away from assumptions about what Soros Foundation organisations were supposed to be, to a more embedded understanding of what they actually were in a specific space-time. The analysis foregrounds varying strategies and trajectories of Soros Foundation's Croatia-based organisations. It demonstrates that they served mostly to maintain continuity with the socialist period during the 1990s, while real structural change, at least partially due to the Foundation's influence, happened only after 1999 with the emergence of the independent cultural scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: Digital humanities; mixed methods; natural language processing; research workflow EN Digital humanities mixed methods natural language processing research workflow 377 389 13 06/23/23 20230701 NES 230701 1. NLP in a mixed methods text analysis workflow In general, fully automated text analysis using NLP techniques creates material for distant reading and does not generate knowledge that is rich, focused and detailed enough to answer many of the research questions posed by social scientists. To integrate NLP into scholarly research successfully, NLP techniques should be applied in a way that both enhances and focuses text exploration and supports the scholarly research workflow (Peters & Wyner, [31]; Woolf & Silver, [34]). On this basis, the article argues that the attributes of NLP bring possibilities for more focused and fine-grained quantitative text analysis, and that this can be combined with tailored qualitative text analysis methods in a flexible workflow to allow researchers to produce more robust results and identify innovative research avenues. [Extracted from the article]

Recent research into Caddo bottle and biface morphology yielded evidence for two distinct behavioral regions, across which material culture from Caddo burials expresses significant morphological differences. This study asks whether Perdiz arrow points differ across the same geography, which would extend the pattern of morphological differences to a third category of Caddo material culture. Perdiz arrow points were employed to test the hypothesis that morphological attributes differ, and are predictable, between the two communities. The analysis of linear metrics indicated a significant difference in morphology by behavioral region. Using linear metrics combined with the tools of machine learning, a predictive model – support vector machine – was used to assess the degree to which community differences could be predicted, achieving a receiver operator curve score of 97% and an accuracy score of 94%. The landmark geometric morphometric analysis identified significant differences in Perdiz arrow point shape and size between behavioral regions – one characterized by a comparatively smaller blade and larger stem (north), and the other by a comparatively larger blade and smaller stem (south) – coupled with significant results for modularity and morphological integration. These findings build upon recent investigations that posited two discrete Caddo behavioral regions defined on the basis of discernible morphological differences, expanded here to include a third category of Caddo material culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent calls from within economics for increased attention to narrative open the door to possible cross-fertilisation between economics and more humanistically oriented business and economic history. Indeed, arguments for economists to take narratives seriously and incorporate them into economic theory have some similarities with classic calls for a revival of narrative in history and abandonment of 'scientific' history. Both share an approach to explaining social phenomena based on the micro-level. This article examines how new methods in computational text analysis can be employed to further the goals of prioritising narrative in economics and history but also challenge a focus on the micro-level. Through a survey of the most frequently used tools of computational text analysis and an overview of their uses to date across the social sciences and humanities, this article shows how such methods can provide economic and business historians tools to respond to and engage with the 'narrative turn' in economics while also building on and offering a macro-level corrective to the focus on narrative in history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tells the story of a rhetorically informed transmedia digital humanities project called the Virtual Martin Luther King Project (vMLK). As a project that is interdisciplinary and community engaged in its development and enactments, vMLK provides a particularly rich site for examining ways to (re)shape the critical/cultural landscapes of higher education. The article explicates how and with what consequences the vMLK project functions as a "technology of recovery" and provides five implications that are significant for scholars working in the areas of public memory and critical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the place of Le città invisibili within the debate on cybernetics, both as a product of its time as well as a harbinger of the future advent of network culture. It proposes to interpret the two most emblematic images of the book – the enchanted palace of the Kublai Khan, and the everchanging 'invisible cities' visited by Marco Polo – as Calvino's personal contribution to the definition of cybertext and cyberspace. Curiously, the same emblematic images are also found in the work of two of Calvino's contemporaries: the American pioneer of information technology Ted Nelson, and the Japanese architect and exponent of the Metabolist movement Arata Isozaki. Through a comparative analysis, this article shows how the new concept of information brought by cybernetics crystallised in virtually identical images and metaphors across disciplines and cultures: in literature, with Calvino, in computer science with Nelson, and in architecture with Isozaki. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the academic library's perspective on a local digital storytelling project of the American University in Bulgaria. Community outreach projects in an international setting require an appropriate set of practical and pedagogical approaches, flexible project skills, advocacy, and cross-departmental collaboration to achieve their goals. The article gives an overview of the emerging digital storytelling method used in academia, shares the challenges, good practices, and results, as well as the empowering opportunities for the library to build capacity for similar digital initiatives in the future and to strengthen its advocacy abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper synthesises theory and practice literature to define a new type of learning space: emergence studios. Emergence studios incorporate iterative, collaborative, and creative elements into graduate education in the social sciences. While some disciplines have a long history of studio spaces and others have begun to implement applied spaces like makerspaces and digital humanities labs, the social sciences rarely offer spaces for application and imagination. Some programmes are exploring how to foster a learning environment where students work together to imagine structures for addressing systemic issues, what I term 'emergence studios'. The principles of emergence studios are explored through theoretical concepts (empathetic, experiential, and ecological) and current practices (makerspaces, digital humanities laboratories, and design studios). Then, this paper uses worldbuilding techniques to outline a new type of experiential classroom space that acknowledges the complexity of our interconnected world and the need for learning that cannot be predetermined by learning objectives. By exploring related literature, this article defines an evolving practice and provides a starting point for further exploration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract, This article compares the agency of heiresses with that of male heirs in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels focused on inheritance to investigate whether heiresses faced more restrictions on their financial and personal freedom compared with other characters from the period due to their fortune. We test James Thompson's claim that "inheritance is enabling or authorizing for male protagonists and disabling for female protagonists" using computational analysis of a corpus of twenty-nine novels and combine our results with close reading of the novels from our corpus. We found that the representation of heiresses' and heirs' agency varies according to genre. Heiresses had more agency than expected, this was especially the case for heiresses in gothic fiction. We noticed a decline in the agency of male heirs in the nineteenth century compared with the eighteenth century, while the agency of other character types such as unmoneyed characters appears to increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For too long anthropocentrism has dominated border studies, which operates within the familiar society-nature duality. A post-humanist approach to borders offers an alternative beyond this dichotomy. It allows for a reconsideration of terrain as a more-than-human assemblage with political agency. Drawing on the central tenets of post-humanist literature in political geography, this article explores the agency of a particular spatiotemporal configuration of terrain, the Rio Bravo/Grande, in bordering and in resistance to bordering. It asks how it is entangled with the United States-Mexico border and other human and non-human objects, actions and actors that make the border, and also how the river affects human bodies and consequently border policies and territory. Drawing on two recent events, it is argued that the river becomes an actor capable of simultaneously impeding migration, and creating emotional ties and resistances. In the discussion of such entanglements, it is concluded that the river affects borders due to the material vulnerability and sensitivity of human bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay revisits the long-standing debate concerning the sources for the underlying political beliefs and commitments held by the "founding generation," those colonists who came to the conclusion that separation from the mother country was necessary and inevitable. It uses a mixed mode of enquiry and analysis, blending standard close reading of texts with computer-aided inspection of the archive at scale. It seeks to clarify the extent to which a set of political assumptions and theories widely assumed to be gathered under the rubric of "republicanism" could have shaped the thinking of this founding generation. Given that the term "republicanism" was very infrequent until the last decade or so of the eighteenth century, the essay proposes ways of interrogating the historical formation of concepts for which no label can be easily discerned. Following the consideration of some candidate terms or phrases that might, at the time of the American Revolution, have effectively been hosts for the political idea of "republicanism," the essay arrives at the conclusion that the founding generation reimagined the role that "republicanism" had played in their thinking at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article pushes at the interdisciplinary boundaries of literary ecocriticism to suggest a new rhetorical figure: the "geometaphor." The geometaphor is a metaphor that is not only geographically marked, but also rooted in a specific territory. In short, it is a poetic metaphor with a specific address. This article defines this concept through references spanning from the medieval Francis of Assisi to the nineteenth-century poet Giacomo Leopardi, and through a sample of geometaphors in three Northern coastal areas: Liguria, the Veneto, and Friuli. They are the enclosed gardens of the Cinque Terre in Eugenio Montale's collection Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones); the harbor and hills of Trieste in Umberto Saba's Trieste e una donna (Trieste and a Woman); and the amphibious streets of Venice in Anna Toscano's Doso la polvere. The technological component of this research is indispensable, and it grew out of a pedagogical need to present Italian poetry to an audience of students on the other side of the ocean with the help of Google Earth. In this essay, the omino facilitates a visualization of poetical terms. It is "dropped" in specific places on the Italian map to trace the contours of its poetic geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By examining the census records of Swedish-Caribbean colony St. Barthélemy, a GIS – Geographic Information System – can be constructed which maps the inhabitants of the harbor city of Gustavia, as well as the inhabitants' placement within the census categories of the colonial administration. This article examines these categories and how they shifted over time, as well as maps out patterns of settlement across the city. One major finding is the division between the Catholic French-Caribbean side on the east and the Anglican Anglo- and Dutch-Caribbean side of the west, the latter of which was home to a number of merchants owning high amounts of enslaved people. This spatial division was also parallel to the political differences between the merchant elite and the Swedish colonial administration. Furthermore, this article encourages additional GIS studies of predemocratic Caribbean cities, particularly regarding spatial division between whites and free people of color. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In I Cut/Copy/Paste i , Whitney Trettien focuses on what she terms "bookwork" - the "creative-critical" (263) act of producing textual assemblages - in the seventeenth century. At the centre of I Cut/Copy/Paste i are the material and intellectual practices that can be deciphered in the books, produced by these textual practitioners, that survive in libraries and archives. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides brief biographical information about several contributors to the Journal of Australian Studies. Anne Pender is the Kidman Chair in Australian Studies and Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Phoebe King has completed her Master of Philosophy in literary studies and is interested in refugee narratives and Australian literature. Shannon Sandford is a Lecturer in Literary Studies with research interests in self-representation and marginalised lives in comics and digital media. Aaron Humphrey is a Lecturer in Media and Digital Humanities, focusing on comics about displaced people. Simon Walsh is a Lecturer in German Studies, specializing in the sociocultural function of music in contemporary Austrian literature. Mary Besemeres is an Honorary Lecturer with expertise in cross-cultural autobiography and multilingualism. Kylie Cardell is an Associate Professor in English, specializing in contemporary non-fiction and life writing. [Extracted from the article]

The algorithmic recommendations used by digital platforms have significant impacts on users behaviours and preferences. For instance, Spotify and Tinder ground their platforms on recommendation algorithms that nudge users to either listen to specific songs or romantically match with specific users. Despite their powerful influence, there is little concrete detail about how exactly these algorithms work as technology companies are increasingly resistant to scholarly scrutiny. This article makes both methodological and substantive contributions to understanding how these influential recommendation algorithms work. We conducted a sequential analysis of historical and contemporary iterations of Spotify and Tinder's Privacy Policies and Terms of Use to ascertain the extent to which it is possible to use this sort of analysis to infer functionalities of the algorithmic recommendations. Our results offered certain insights into the companies, such as Spotify acknowledging in its Privacy Policy that companie's commercial agreements may be altering the recommendations. However, the legal documentation of both companies is ambiguous and lacks detail as to the platform's use of AI and user data. This opaque drafting of Privacy Policies and Terms of Use hamper the capacity of outsiders to properly scrutinise the companies' algorithms and their relationship with users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]