HUM-474: Press and digital history I

Summary

Alliant numérique et histoire, ce cours propose une nouvelle approche de l'histoire de la presse et de la Suisse au XXe siècle. En explorant les archives de presse numérisées à l'aide d'outils numériques, les étudiant·e·s apprendront à analyser de manière critique des données abondantes du passé.

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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in a large number of scientific projects centred on information extraction and text analysis, both for present-time and historical documents.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.

Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities.

International relations

International Relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states. The scientific study of those interactions is called international studies, international politics, or international affairs. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities among states—such as war, diplomacy, trade, and foreign policy—as well as relations with and among other international actors, such as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), international legal bodies, and multinational corporations (MNCs).

World War III

World War III or the Third World War, often abbreviated as WWIII or WW3, are names given to a hypothetical worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II. The term has been in use since at least as early as 1941. Some apply it loosely to limited or more minor conflicts such as the Cold War or the war on terror. In contrast, others assume that such a conflict would surpass prior world wars in both scope and destructive impact.

Realism (international relations)

Realism is one of the dominant schools of thought in international relations theory, theoretically formalizing the Realpolitik statesmanship of early modern Europe. Although a highly diverse body of thought, it is unified by the belief that world politics is always and necessarily a field of conflict among actors pursuing wealth and power. The theories of realism are contrasted by the cooperative ideals of liberalism in international relations. Realists are divided into three classes based on their view of the essential causes of interstate conflict.

History of journalism

The history of journalism spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the steady increase of "the scope of news available to us and the speed with which it is transmitted. Before the printing press was invented, word of mouth was the primary source of news. Returning merchants, sailors, travelers brought news back to the mainland, and this was then picked up by pedlars and traveling players and spread from town to town.