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Historical Methodology: Press and Digital History

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HUM-474: Media in Transition: History and Issues in Discourse I

Alliant numérique et histoire, ce cours propose une approche renouvelée de l'histoire des médias. En explorant les archives de presse numérisées à l'aide d'outils numériques, les étudiant·es apprendront à analyser de manière critique les données massives d ...

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This lecture covers the historical methodology and works to be submitted for the autumn semester, focusing on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It explores the impact of the Russian silence on the Swiss media coverage, the evolution of the event's reporting, and the role of the media in shaping public opinion. Students are guided on research projects analyzing historical press coverage, defining research problems, and building bibliographies.

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Instructor

Maud Ehrmann

Maud Ehrmann is a research scientist at EPFL’s Digital Humanities Laboratory lead by Prof. Frédéric Kaplan . She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Paris Diderot Universtiy (Paris 7) and has been engaged in a large number of scientific projects centred on information extraction and text analysis, both for present-time and historical documents. Her main research interests span Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities and include, among others, historical text annotation, historical data processing and representation, named entity recognition, and multilingual linguistic resources creation. Her current work at the DHLAB focuses on ‘impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past’ , a SNF sinergia project she initiated with Marten Düring ( C2DH ) and Simon Clematide ( ICL ) and which aims at enabling critical analysis of historical newspapers. In addition to the overall project management, her contributions to this project include system design and data management, annotation and benchmarking and named entity processing. Besides, she participates to the activities of the Venice Time Machine , working particularly on information extraction and knowledge representation tasks. Previously, she worked on the Garzoni project where she supervised and contributed to the development of a web-based transcription and annotation interface - in collaboration with Orlin Topalov, and built a linked data-based historical knowledge base. She also contributed to the Le Temps Digital Archives project . Prior to joining the DHLAB, she worked at the Linguistics Computing Laboratory at the Sapienza University of Rome with Roberto Navigli, where she worked on the BabelNet resource - a very large multilingual encyclopaedic dictionary and semantic network - and contributed to the LIDER project. Before that, she has been working for four years at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, as member of the OPTIMA unit (now Text and Data mining unit), which develops innovative and application-oriented solutions for retrieving and extracting information from the Internet with a focus on high multilinguality. Together with Erik van der Goot, Ralf Steinberger , Hristo Tanev, Leo della Rocca and many others, she contributed to the development of the Europe Media Monitor (EMM). Prior, she worked at the Xerox Europe Research Centre in Grenoble, France (now Naver Labs Europe ) in the Parsing & Semantics group led by Frédérique Segond, first as PhD candidate supported through a CIFRE grant under the supervision of Caroline Brun and Bernard Victorri , then as a post-doctoral researcher. There her research focused mainly on the automatic processing and fine-grained analysis of entities of interest, specifically named entities and temporal expressions.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

Chernobyl

Chernobyl (tʃɜːrˈnoʊbəl , UKalsotʃɜːrˈnɒbəl ; Чернобыль, tɕɪrˈnobɨlj) or Chornobyl (Чорнобиль, tʃorˈnɔbɪlj) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about north of Kyiv, and southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel. Before its evacuation, the city had about 14,000 residents (considerably less than neighboring Pripyat).

Chernobyl liquidators

Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. Surviving liquidators are qualified for significant social benefits due to their veteran status. Many liquidators were praised as heroes by the Soviet government and the press, while some struggled for years to have their participation officially recognized.

Chernobyl exclusion zone

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30-Kilometre Zone, or The Zone. Established by the Soviet Armed Forces soon after the 1986 disaster, it initially existed as an area of radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control. Its borders have since been altered to cover a larger area of Ukraine.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP; Чорнобильська атомна електростанція; Чернобыльская атомная электростанция) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about north of Kyiv. The plant was cooled by an engineered pond, fed by the Pripyat River about northwest from its juncture with the Dnieper.

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