please see below the programme for the 'Exploring digital newspaper archives' seminar to be held at the University of Sheffield on Friday 14th January 2011.

The seminar is free to attend but you will need to book your place using our online store. To book your place please click here https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=476&deptid=9&compid=1&searchresults=1

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Exploring the language of the popular in Anglo-American Newspapers 1833-1988
Exploring digital newspaper archives
Seminar ICOSS, University of Sheffield
14 January 2011

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
Clare 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

If you have any further questions please contact me at clare.burke@sheffield.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in January.

Best wishes
Clare