Digital History 1.5: A Middle Way between Normal and Paradigmatic Digital Historical Research

Fridlund, Mats

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“…We have pointed to some of these consequences, but what digital source criticism implies should be further investigated. This termdigital source criticismis beginning to gain traction, especially within digital historiography (e.g., Fridlund 2020;Owens and Padilla 2020;Paju, Oiva, and Fridlund 2020). Within journalism, digital source criticism has been used to describe the application of digital tools to the assessment of digital source material (Grut 2021;Nygren and Brounéus 2018).…”

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Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims

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This article presents a hermeneutical epistemology for the assessment and production of truth-claims in journalism. This epistemology is based on Gadamer's functional hermeneutics, and it advances the concept of source criticism as an alternative to other practices and understandings of information verification in journalism. The article argues that source criticism is a better approach to bridge the gap between news and truth in journalism in a time of "information disorder". Source criticism is a common concept in certain journalistic cultures, for instance in Scandinavia, but it needs revision due to current developments in digital information networks. A modern version of source criticism offers great value to journalism as (1) guidelines for the practical assessments of sources and source material, (2) a professional attitude related to what it takes to produce truth-claims, and (3) a tool to perform audits of journalism. The article ends with highlighting three norms for journalistic practice and audits of journalism. These norms, which contain operationalisation of source criticism as journalistic epistemology and methodology, are: (1) harness truth-claims with modesty; (2) deploy interpretive transparency; and (3) operationalise self-reflective truth-claims.

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“…However many historians do not know and are unable to access it. Although digital historical sources are more accessible and provide a wider and more dynamic range of sources, it is not uncommon for historians to underestimate it (Fridlund 2020).…”

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Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

Ridhoi¹,

Subekti²,

Navarro³

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This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose "Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education" as the main topic, and elaborates on five subthemes: 1) new trends in historical research; 2) formulation of new perspectives in history, social sciences, and education; 3) transdisciplinary research in history, social sciences, and education; 4) innovations in historical and social science learning during pandemics; 5) New ideas in the research and practice of social sciences and education. This seminar was open to international academics.This book presents new perspectives on methodology, methods, theory, and themes on history, social sciences, and education research from various perspectives on methodology and historiography. Now, history is not only about politics, economy and military, but also about environment, social, education, culinary, and so on. This book will be useful for students, historians, and the general public, in recording the development of Indonesian historical writing perspectives.

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“…As Mats Fridlund notes, there is a tension between digital history 1.0, which designates traditional historical scholarship increasingly impacted by the everyday use of digital tools, and digital history 2.0, which posits computational methods and the increasing abundance of digital sources as profoundly transformative to the discipline at large. 5 A key example of the radically new and different digital history 2.0 is the increasingly common practice of "multidisciplinary teamwork" and the shifts such teamwork entails in terms of the scope of research, the scale of data, the process of data curation and the tools utilized. By contrast, my project rather follows what Fridlund labels as "digital history 1.5", that is "a hybrid or mixed methodology in that it is a combination of quantitative and qualitative historical research methodologies, and semi-automatic as it combines a large amount of manual evaluation with the systematic use of automatic analysis in pre-programmed offline and online calculation".…”

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Audiovisual Media and Automatic Speech Recognition: A Methodological Reflection

Stjernholm¹

2023

Lychnos

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This methodological reflection focuses on the use of automatic speech recognition in my ongoing research project Televising Information: The Audiovisual Communication of Government Agencies, which has been conducted in collaboration with the National Library of Sweden’s KB-Lab. The article maps the pitfalls and affordances of ASR in the study of audiovisual media and digital history more broadly. Three key topics are emphasized: first, the collaboration between scholars and audiovisual archives and the potential of automatic speech recognition to transform the way scholars navigate and engage with audiovisual media history; second, what knowledge can be gained from employing automatic speech recognition in the exploration of film and television history; and lastly, thoughts on trajectories for future research. Even though the National Library of Sweden’s audiovisual collection is frequently used in humanities and social science scholarship, no previous research project has utilized automatic speech recognition algorithms to analyze material from their collection. As such, this reflection aims to contribute toward methodological development.

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Digital History 1.5: A Middle Way between Normal and Paradigmatic Digital Historical Research

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Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims

Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims

Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

Audiovisual Media and Automatic Speech Recognition: A Methodological Reflection

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