Seminarie 'Exploring digital newspaper archives'

9.00 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 9.45 Welcome: Martin Conboy (University of Sheffield)

9.45 – 11.15 Session 1

• Elliot King (Loyola University Maryland) The Media History Exchange.
• Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich) ‘The defendant replied that he knew that’: The development of speech presentation in the Times 1833-1988.
• Michael Pidd (University of Sheffield) Understanding Research Needs for the Exploitation of Digital Newspaper Archives

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Session 2

• lare Horrocks: (Liverpool John Moores University) Nineteenth century journalism online: the  market versus academia?
• Simon Potter (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘No news hitherto telegraphed to London concerning Major Marchand can possibly be correct’. Researching transnational history using digital newspaper archives.

12.30 – 1.15 Lunch

1.15 – 2.45 Session 3

• Murray Dick (Brunel University) Content analysis 2.0: a framework for using Wordle.
• James Mussell (University of Birmingham) The importance of genre for understanding the nineteenth century newspaper press, as print and digital resource.
• Nicole Maurantonio (University of Richmond, Virginia) Archiving crisis: texts, contexts and narrative challenges.

2.45 - 4.15 Session 4

• Bob Nicholson (University of Manchester) Cultural History 2.0: exploring the methodological potential of digital newspaper archives.
• Laura Wright (University of Cambridge) ‘Ladies’ Tormentors’, ‘Tour Balloons’ and Vassarettes’: everyday commodities from nineteenth century British newspapers.
• John Lee (University of Bristol) Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American newspapers 1833-1988 (Looking at Rudyard Kipling).

4.15 - 5.15 Plenary discussion: future directions and networking