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.
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Social Informatics |
| Subtitle of host publication | SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 11 2014, Revised Selected Papers |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 284-293 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Digital history
- Text mining
- European integration
- International relations
- Social network
- Public discourse