This thematic issue of the Journal of Digital History focuses on different digital tools that are used to study, explore, and narrate the past. Our idea has been to collect a broad range of articles that demonstrate and critique new ways of exploring the past through computational means—all in order to open up and problematize the use of digital methods in historical research, including analytical

Legitimizing ESS Legitimizing ESS: Big Science as collaboration across boundaries The ESS theme at the Pufendorf Institute The purpose of this theme is to study the European Spallation Source (ESS) to be inaugurated in Lund 2019. We will apply perspectives from economics, the social sciences and the humanities to analyze ESS as a contemporary Big-Science facility focusing on processes of legitimat

https://www.pi.lu.se/sites/pi.lu.se/files/legitimizing_ess.pdf - 2025-08-04

In 1968, Swedish insurance company Folksam launched the information campaign Front mot miljöförstöringen (“Front against Environmental Degradation”). The campaign culminated in 1969 with large public hearings where young people addressed local politicians and industry leaders about environmental problems. Throughout this campaign, the aim was to activate youth and make them co-creators of large-sc

The article presents and analyses the editorial ideals and practices of the Enlightenment press with regard to their participatory elements. The decline of these ideals and practices, during the era of the establishment of the modern press in the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s, is discussed with regard to its advocates’ self-legitimating ambitions. These professional efforts were carried out in various wa

This thesis aims to study obituaries in the Swedish newspaper 'Dagens Nyheter'. Newspapers are gathered from the years 1865 to 2010 with a 5-year interval and then categorized based on similarities between the issues. By approaching these categories with eye-tracking research and previous research on the cultural importance of obituaries, conclusions on the content, layout, and usage can b

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema shows how such images

Researcher Contact details Email: ilkin [dot] mehrabov [at] iko [dot] lu [dot] seOrganisation Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) Service point: 18 WebpageIlkin Mehrabovs profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Researcher MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World Teaching staff Department of CommunicationIlkin Mehrabov is a Senior Lecturer at the Department

https://www.cmes.lu.se/ilkin-mehrabov - 2025-08-03

When literature, conflict and memory are linkaged one to another. This is the main intention that this article brings about into the centre of discussion. Written in a form of personal reflection, then followed by a deeper discussion on the main topic, I address the notion of so-called constructed memory in the context of understanding the Indonesian literature as the impact of the 1965 conflict o

The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and comm

Thomas Aerts Doctoral student, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg Email: thomas [dot] aerts [at] sprak [dot] gu [dot] se Telephone: +46 31 786 19 80 Personal webpage Ning Ao Doctoral student, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University Email: ning [dot] ao [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se Personal webpage Chontida Auikool Doctoral student, Centre for East

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/phd-students - 2025-08-03

An analysis of Swedish film, radio and television during the 20th century.

I artikeln prövar jag att betrakta design och teknologi, särskilt äldre sådan, i ett medieperspektiv, som delar av och i samverkan med ett större spektrum av mediala perspektiv. Med utgångspunkt i 1800-talets interiörer och interiörföremål presenterar jag och diskuterar designobjekt och teknologiska föremål som delar av interiörernas medierade uttrycksspråk, med syftet att betona de mer språkliga