Lightning presentations of PhD projects using digital methods in the humanities

The last DHNetwork meeting before the summer is dedicated to showcasing the many humanities PhD students currently using digital methods in their research. Each PhD student will give a short, 3-5 minute presentation of their project. If you would like to introduce your project, please send an email to hannah.ackermans@uib.no or jill.walker.rettberg@uib.no

Moa Christina Airijoki (AHKR):Transplanting Monastic Literature – a study of the medieval Copto-Arabic reception of the Apophthegmata Patrum. Within my project I make use of two databases, one of which is open access and online (monastica.ht.lu.se/), and the other one being a designed Apophthegmata Patrum database (APDB).

Seong-Eun Cho(LLE): Identification of Speculations and Rumors in Relation Extraction. I will demonstrate how Microsoft Azure's Cognitive Services and Python can be used to retrieve and process large quantities of news articles from the web.

Ragnhild Gjerfsen(LLE): Dei pratar så rart i teateret (Stage language is a strange language). In my project I am using Praat, a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics. This tool helps me organise and analyse the soundtracks of old performance recordings.  

Johanne Kalsaas (IF): Disruptive digital discourse and the diaspora: Representations of Norway in Russian online trolling and receptions by the Russian population in Norway. Both the data and the methods are digital. I use a combination of web crawling, corpus/computational linguistics and digital ethnography in a combined discourse analytical framework to study the interplay between Russian internet trolls and the digital diaspora.

Magnus Knustad (LLE):The democratic value of newspaper comment sections. To study comment sections I have developed my own tools for collecting and categorizing comments from various newspapers.

Joseph Thomas Ryder, Archaeologist using GIS (AHKR).

Runa Falck Langaas (IF): From parties in Kyoto and Paris to everyday life in Norway: A multi-methodological approach to why Norwegians (don’t) take knowledge about climate change into account in their lifestyle choices. I will use digital data from an online survey (Norwegian Citizen Panel) and Facebook posts.