Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3)
Towards an Ontology and Epistemology of Text Reuse: Cycles of Information Flows in Finnish Newspapers and Journals, 1771–1920
Julkaisun tekijät: Paju Petri, Rantala Heli, Salmi Hannu
Toimittaja: Bunout Estelle, Ehrmann Maud, Clavert Frédéric
Paikka: Berlin, Boston
Julkaisuvuosi: 2023
Kirjan nimi *: Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology
Sarjan nimi: Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
Numero sarjassa: 3
Aloitussivu: 253
Lopetussivun numero: 273
Sivujen määrä: 20
ISBN: 978-3-11-072971-9
eISBN: 978-3-11-072921-4
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214-012
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214-012
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/178256111
The article explores the ontological and epistemological ramifications of text reuse, drawing on a digitized corpus of newspapers and journals from the National Library of Finland and covering the time span of 149 years from 1771 to 1920. The article examines three types of reuse cycles, rapid, slow and mid-range repetition. The argument is that text reuse has ontological ramifications on how the processes of a media network are conceived. With ontology we mean that the study of history always includes conceptualizations, either implicit or explicit, of which kinds of entities and things, as well as forms of being, there were in the past. Text reuse offers a perspective for the analysis of these “forms of being.” In the epistemological part of the study, the article studies the aspects that influence and may bias the results, focusing on the material conditions of digitization process, the problems of metadata, and the possible methodological nationalism of drawing on nationally siloed corpora.
Keywords: text reuse detection, newspaper history, media history, ontology, epistemology
Ladattava julkaisu This is an electronic reprint of the original article. |