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  1. 1. From the Alps to the Baltic Sea : Waldensian News in the Swedish Newspapers (1686-1690)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Luigi Ciampini; [2023]
    Keywords : Waldensians; identity; religion; Sweden; Reformation; Lutheranism; Reformed; newspapers; Savoy; Ordinarie Stockholmiske Posttijdender; Posttidningar; Post- och Inrikes Tidningar; War of the League of Augsburg.;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses four years of the turbulent history regarding a small Italian Reformed group, better known as Waldensians, that lived in the duchy of Savoy (or Italian Piedmont). It will focus on how the Swedish press presented their issues to the Swedish readership in the years 1686-1690. READ MORE

  3. 2. News article segmentation using multimodal input : Using Mask R-CNN and sentence transformers

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Gustav Henning; [2022]
    Keywords : Historical newspapers; Image segmentation; Multimodal learning; Deep learning; Digital humanities; Mask R-CNN; Historiska tidningar; Bildsegmentering; Multimodal inlärning; Djupinlärning; Digital humaniora; Mask R-CNN;

    Abstract : In this century and the last, serious efforts have been made to digitize the content housed by libraries across the world. In order to open up these volumes to content-based information retrieval, independent elements such as headlines, body text, bylines, images and captions ideally need to be connected semantically as article-level units. READ MORE

  4. 3. A loyal public against an evil enemy? : Comparing how Russia, Denmark, and Poland were communicated as the otherin the Swedish Posttidningar during times of war, 1699–1743

    University essay from Historiska institutionen

    Author : Sarah Linden Pasay; [2012]
    Keywords : Great Northern War; Russo-Swedish War; Charles XII; Peter the Great; identity; newspapers; public sphere; Habermas; nationalism; ethnicity; patriotism; religion; Sweden; Russia; Poland; Denmark; early modern period; Posttidningar; Post- och Inrikes Tidningar.;

    Abstract : This study explores the Swedish portrayals of Russians as compared to Danes and Polesand how they changed over time during the Great Northern War and Russo-SwedishWar (1741–1743). Through the Swedish state-run Posttidningar, the information deliveredby the state indicates that the circumstances of war and the power of the enemy leaderswere more significant than specific attributes of the enemy other in forming collectiveSwedish identity. READ MORE