Looking From a Distance: Digital Humanities Insights into the Field of Feminist Utopian Criticism

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2024

Authors

Moreira, Luciano (Author) FLUP; Pinela, Joana (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2nd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Text and Multimodal

Other information

DOI: 10.54499/UIDP/04097/2020

Abstract (EN): In this paper, we aimed to explore how digital humanities can contribute to a better understanding of the construction of scientific disciplines. We specifically focused on the field of utopian studies and within it, feminist criticism, using metadata from the field’s largest bibliographic database. The Lyman Tower Sargent Bibliography includes over 19,000 critical references, around 70% of which are written in English. We conducted the statistics and text analysis in R. Results showed that works mostly address literature. Women related topics, despite representing a relatively small part of the corpus, rank as the third most important topic and are integrated into the most complex thematic constellation, which connects, for example, the themes of science fiction and the future. This work is significant because it shows that digital humanities can help understand heuristics, imbalances, and trends in the construction of repositories and the fields they aim to represent.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific