Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?

Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

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Contributor(s)
Bunout, Estelle (editor)
Ehrmann, Maud (editor)
Clavert, Frédéric (editor)
Language
English
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Abstract
Digitization technologies applied to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite unquestionable merits, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also brings drawbacks and possible pitfalls which need to be carefully assessed.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96516
Keywords
digital history; digitized newspapers; digital source criticism; history research practices
DOI
10.1515/9783110729214
ISBN
9783110729214, 9783110729719, 9783110729269
Publisher
De Gruyter
Publisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/
Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2022
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Imprint
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Series
Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics,
Classification
History: theory and methods
History and Archaeology
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Pages
439
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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