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Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History
- Author(s):
- Till Grallert (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanists, Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies, Global DH
- Subject(s):
- Arabic language, Turkey, Periodicals--Study and teaching, Literary style--Statistical methods
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Digital Divide, Digital history, Network analysis, Ottoman Empire, Periodical studies, Stylometry
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/vjzt-xw59
- Abstract:
- The essay explores the use of digital history for the systematic study of the periodical press in the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean (1906 –1918) as a discursive field. It evaluates the methodological and practical challenges of digital history as rooted in the socio-technical infrastructures of the Global North when applied to the Global South. It does so using a case study of four Arabic journals from Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, and Damascus. After outlining the need for building a corpus and the challenges presented by this effort, this article explores a digital corpus of a total of circa 2.65 million words through (social) network analysis and stylometric authorship attribution.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.58
- Pub. Date:
- 2021
- Journal:
- Geschichte und Gesellschaft
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range:
- 58 - 89
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History