METHODS

Collaboration between researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds is at the heart of CEDITRAA’s approach and its innovative potential for area studies. While all researchers working on Africa and Asia are focussing on the concept of cultural entrepreneurship, they do so with a broad range of qualitative and quantitative methodological tools. The major methodological approaches used within the project are presented here below.

Ann Heylen on the digitization of scholarly publishing in East Asian popular culture research

On 6 December 2022, Ann Heylen, Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and Executive Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), at the College of Liberal Arts, NTNU, will give...

Natural Language Processing

NLP (Natural Language Processing, or computer-assisted text analysis) and CV (Computer Vision, or visual analysis) are two subfields within Artificial Intelligence. Both approaches provide computational methods to analyse human texts, discourses, and visual input such as images and videos. NLP...

Film Analysis through the Social Lens

South Korea has strengthened its international image and its political and economic ties by promoting and exporting its cultural products and creating a distinctive Korean nation brand. These heavily promoted cultural exports have become instrumental to how the world perceives...

Digital ethnography

Digital ethnography, as Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta put it, is “doing ethnographic research about, on, and through digital media” , meaning that the digital can be interpreted in three different directions. Research on digital media is done as...

Ethnographic methods

The classical method of ethnographic research requires researchers to travel to the people whose cultural practices they intend to study. They live among them for a period of time, learn their language, and participate in their daily activities, methods that...