Petri Paju

Heidi Kurvinen

Petri Saarikoski

Alkaneesta 2020-luvusta ennakoidaan uutta avaruusaikaa, minkä vuoksi elämme jälleen avaruuden kuvittelun nousukautta. Mielikuvituksessaan ihmiskunta on kuitenkin lentänyt avaruuteen jo ennen 1900-luvun puolimaissa käynnistynyttä avaruuden valloitusta. Kuvittelua on tarvittu teknisten edistysaskeleiden lisäksi kaikissa maailmankaikkeuden tutkimuksen vaiheissa. Kuviteltu avaruus: Matkoja maan ulkopuolelle on kulttuurihistoriallinen avaus näihin fantasian ja vaihtoehtojen pohtimisen muotoihin. Kirjan artikkelit käsittelevät avaruutta koskevaa ajattelua niin kirjallisuudessa, populaarikulttuurissa kuin tieteellisessä tutkimuksessa. Teos keskittyy toisen maailmansodan jälkeen käynnistyneisiin avaruuslentojen vuosiin, mutta luo katsauksia myös avaruuden kuvittelun varhaisempaan historiaan. Artikkelikokoelma sai alkunsa ihmisen Kuuhun astumisen 50-vuotisseminaarista, joka järjestettiin Turun yliopistossa keväällä 2019.

Matkoja maan ulkopuolelle

Kuviteltu avaruus

Mila Oiva

Mats Fridlund

Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools. Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It presents work by historians who – on their own or through collaborations with e.g. information technology specialists – have uncovered new, empirical historical knowledge through digital and computational methods. The topics of the volume range from the medieval period to the present day, including various parts of Europe. The chapters apply an exemplary array of methods, such as digital metadata analysis, machine learning, network analysis, topic modelling, named entity recognition, collocation analysis, critical search, and text and data mining. The volume argues that digital history is entering a mature phase, digital history ‘in action’, where its focus is shifting from the building of resources towards the making of new historical knowledge. This also involves novel challenges that digital methods pose to historical research, including awareness of the pitfalls and limitations of the digital tools and the necessity of new forms of digital source criticisms. Through its combination of empirical, conceptual and contextual studies, Digital Histories is a timely and pioneering contribution taking stock of how digital research currently advances historical scholarship.

Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History

Digital Histories

John Impagliazzo

Timo Järvi

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing, that is the years from the 1940s through the 1960s, although it formally extended to year 1985. In the preface of the proceedings of HiNC1, Janis Bubenko, Jr. , John Impagliazzo, and Arne Sølvberg describe well the peculiarities of early Nordic c- puting [1]. While developing hardware was a necessity for the first professionals, quite soon the computer became an industrial product. Computer scientists, among others, grew increasingly interested in programming and application software. P- gress in these areas from the 1960s to the 1980s was experienced as astonishing. The developments during these decades were taken as the focus of HiNC2. During those decades computers arrived to every branch of large and medium-sized businesses and the users of the computer systems were no longer only computer s- cialists but also people with other main duties. Compared to the early years of comp- ing before 1960, where the number of computer projects and applications was small, capturing a holistic view of the history between the 1960s and the 1980s is conside- bly more difficult. The HiNC2 conference attempted to help in this endeavor.

Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC 2, Turku, Finland, August 21-23, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

History of Nordic Computing 2

Petri Paju

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