Invitation: Communication history of International Organizations and NGOs

Invitation to the international conference Communication history of International Organizations and NGOs – Questions, Research Perspectives, Topics, April 22 to 23, 2021 (online via Zoom).Featuring keynotes by Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch (University of Basel) and Thorsten Kahlert (formerly of the University of Aarhus).The joint annual conference of the Bremen Centre for Media, Communication Information Research (ZeMKI), the division for the history of communication of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), the Institute for Newspaper Research, Dortmund, and the Association for the Promotion of Newspaper Research, Dortmund will be held online.

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Symposium on ‘Computational Text Analysis and Historical Change’

Welcome to the symposium “Computational Text Analysis and Historical Change” on September 4–6 at Humlab (Umeå University). The starting point of this interdisciplinary event is as follows: Considering the possibility to process large amounts of text data through methods such as probabilistic topic models or word embeddings, how can historical transformations of media, culture and society be empirically measured in novel ways? We hope that you will join us in exploring answers to this questions. 

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