Abstract
It has been said that media is an important but mostly overlooked player in European integration history. Now, the mass digitisation of newspapers and the introduction of new digital techniques promise great potential to remedy this inattention. With the conjecture that people are drivers and carriers of change, we propose a people-centric approach to mine news articles in a way that can be most useful to further historical research. In this paper, we describe a methodology for building social networks from unstructured news stories, with the European integration scenario serving as a case study.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bamman, D., O’Connor, B., Smith, N.A.: Learning latent personas of film characters. In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 352–361 (2013)
de Bruin, R.: Elastisch Europa. De integratie van Europa en de Nederlandse politiek, 1947–1968. Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam (2014)
Coll Ardanuy, M., Sporleder, C.: Structure-based clustering of novels. In: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature at EACL 2014, pp. 31–39. Gothenburg, Sweden (2014)
Elson, D.K., Dames, N., McKeown, K.R.: Extracting social networks from literary fiction. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 138–147 (2010)
de Roode, S.L.R.: Seeing Europe Through the Nation. TheRole of National Self-images in the Perception of European Integration inthe English, German, and Dutch Press in the 1950s and 1990s. Steiner, Stuttgart (2012)
Hooghe, L., Marks, G.: Europe’s blues. Theoreticalsoul-searching after the rejection of the european constitution. Political Science & Politics 39(2), 247–250 (2006)
Jackson, C.A.: Using Social Network Analysis to Reveal Unseen Relationships in Medieval Scotland. In: Digital Humanities Conference, Lausanne (2014)
Kaiser, W.: Transnational western europe since 1945. Integration as political society formation. In: Kaiser, W., Starie, P. (eds.) Transnational European Union. Towards a Common Political Space, pp. 17–35. Routledge, London (2005)
Kaiser, W.: Transnational networks in european governance. The informal politics of integration. In: Kaiser, W., Leucht, B., Rasmussen, M. (eds.) The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950–1972, pp. 12–33. Routledge, New York/London (2009)
Lundestad, G.: “Empire” by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945–1997. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1998)
Mazower, M.: Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century. Vintage Books, London (1998)
Medrano, J.D.: Framing Europe. Spain, and the United Kingdom. Princeton University Press, Princeton, Attitudes to European Integration in Germany (2003)
Meyer, J.H.: Tracing the European Public Sphere. A Comparative Analysis of British, French and German Quality Newspaper Coverage of European Summits (1969–1991). Steiner, Stuttgart (2010)
Milward, A.S.: The European Rescue of the Nation-state. Routledge, London (1992)
Moravcsik, A.: The Choice for Europe. Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht. Cornell University Press, London/New York (1998)
Moravcsik, A.: What Can we Learn from the Collapse of the European Constitutional Project? Politische Vierteljahresschrift 47(2), 219–241 (2006)
Oelke, D., Kokkinakis, D., Malm, M.: Advanced visual analytics methods for literature analysis. In: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) at EACL 2012 Workshop. Avignon, France (2012)
Padgett, J.F., Ansell, C.K.: Robust action and the rise of the Medici, 1400–1434. American Journal of Sociology 98(6), 1259–1319 (1993)
Piersma, H., Ribbens, K.: Digital Historical Research. Context, Concepts and the Need for Reflection. BMGN - Low Countries Historical. Review 128(4), 78–102 (2013)
Rochat, Y., Fournier, M., Mazzei, A., Kaplan, F.: A network analysis approach of the venetian incanto system. In: Digital Humanities Conference, Lausanne (2014)
Seidel, K.: From pioneer work to refinement. publication trends. In: European Union History: Themes and Debates, pp. 26–44. Palgrave, Basingstoke (2010)
Trenz, H.J.: Media: The unknown player in european integration. In: Media. Democracy and European Culture, pp. 49–64. Intellect, Bristol (2008)
van Dam, P.: Staat van verzuiling. Over een Nederlandse mythe. Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam (2011)
van den Bos, M.: Mensen van goede wil. Pax Christi Nederland (forthcoming)
van Eijnatten, J., Pieters, T., Verheul, J.: Big Data for Global History: The Transformative Promise of Digital Humanities. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 128(4), 55–77 (2013)
van Middelaar, L.: Telling Another Story of Europe. A Reply in Favour of Politics. BMGN - Low Countries Historical. Review 125(4), 82–89 (2010)
van Middelaar, L.: The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union. Yale University Press, London (2013)
Wendt, A.: Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999)
Wieneke, L., Düring, M., Sillaume, G., Lallemand, C., Croce, V., Lazzaro, M., Nucci, F.S., Pasini, C., Fraternali, P., Tagliasacchi, M., Melenhorst, M., Novak, J., Micheel, I., Harloff, E., Garcia Moron, J.: Building the social graph of the history of european integration. In: HistoInformatics Workshop at SocInfo 2013, Kyoto (2013)
Wolf, M.: Het geheim van De Telegraaf: geschiedenis van een krant. Boom, Amsterdam (2009)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Coll Ardanuy, M., van den Bos, M., Sporleder, C. (2015). Laboratories of Community: How Digital Humanities Can Further New European Integration History. In: Aiello, L., McFarland, D. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8852. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7_36
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7_36
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-15167-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-15168-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)