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Digital History: Exploring 20th Century through Press Analysis

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This lecture delves into digital history, using digital media to enhance historical analysis, presentation, and research. It explores the transformation of knowledge dissemination from print to multimedia configurations, emphasizing the impact of digital tools on arts, humanities, and social sciences. The application of specific clustering methods to identify continuous and discontinuous periods is demonstrated, focusing on the analysis of Anglophone press and periodicals. The lecture also discusses the creation of a press corpus for studying Great Britain from 1800 to 1950, ensuring representativeness in terms of geographical coverage, temporal span, OCR quality, and political spectrum.

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