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.
URI
https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/178282
Keywords
digital history; digitized newspapers; digital source criticism; history research practices; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
DOI
10.1515/9783110729214
ISBN
9783110729214, 9783110729719, 9783110729269
Publisher
De Gruyter
Publisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/
Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2022
Imprint
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Series
Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics,
Pages
439