SPACE AND TIME IN 100 MILLION WORDS: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN A NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPER

Porter, Catherine, Atkinson, Paul ORCID: 0000-0001-8740-6561 and Gregory, Ian N (2018) SPACE AND TIME IN 100 MILLION WORDS: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN A NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPER. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMPUTING-A JOURNAL OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES, 12 (2). pp. 196-216.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2018.0222

Abstract

<jats:p> The abundance of information contained in nineteenth-century texts means the traditional ‘close reading’ of Victorian culture has limitations. With the burgeoning availability of newspapers in digital format, there is a pressing need to look at how we might effectively and efficiently use these digital resources to help answer research questions and add to key historical and geographical debates. Focusing on the analysis of a large digital corpus, this paper has two key foci: (I) to apply an innovative digital methodology, that combines corpus linguistics and geospatial technologies, to a very large corpus of newspaper texts and; (II) apply said methodology to a case study assessing the presentation of health and disease in a nineteenth-century newspaper. The paper illustrates that by linking existing techniques with new and innovative approaches it is possible to temporally and spatially analyse and map themes of interest in large digital corpora on a scale not possible through more traditional close reading methods. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	spatial humanities, GIS, nineteenth-century, health, geographical text analysis
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2020 13:03
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:02
DOI:	10.3366/ijhac.2018.0222
Open Access URL:	https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/159681044/IJH...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3075549