Digitization and computer science have established a whole new set of methods to analyze large collections of texts. One of these methods is particularly promising for economic historians: topic models, statistical algorithms that automatically infer themes from large collections of texts. In...

The importance of mass media is reflected, among other things, in the fact that their coverage on certain topics - contrary to findings from communication research - is often seen as a reflection of the topics that are discussed by society. In Germany, this can be observed especially for the...

Digitization and computer science have established a whole new set of methods to analyze large collections of texts. One of these methods is particularly promising for economic historians: topic models, statistical algorithms that automatically infer themes from large collections of texts. In...

Auf Anregung einer (nicht-repräsentativen) Twitter-Umfrage unter Historikerinnen und Historikern möchten wir in diesem Beitrag ein von uns zusammengetragenes Korpus an Aufsätzen aus elf geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fachjournalen vorstellen und anhand einiger Beispiele illustrieren, wie sich...

The importance of mass media is reflected, among other things, in the fact that their coverage on certain topics - contrary to findings from communication research - is often seen as a reflection of the topics that are discussed by society. In Germany, this can be observed especially for the...

One way for economists to influence economic policy and society as a whole is to shape what Robert Shiller has called "economic narratives". This, in turn, puts the media in their role as professional storytellers in a central position. In this paper, I investigate how economists have been...

The increasing availability of digital text collections and the corresponding establishment of methods for computer-assisted analysis open up completely new perspectives on historical textual sources. In this paper, we use the possibilities of text mining to investigate the history of German...