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@article{fridlund-etal-2023-cultural-330179,
	title        = {The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism: Close and Distant Readings of Political Terror in Swedish News and Fiction During the Cold War},
	abstract     = {The digital history project ’The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism’ (2022–2025) examines the cultural meaning-making of political terror in Swedish nonfiction and fiction during the Cold War, a critical period for the formation of the international discourse on terrorism. To explore the Swedish ‘cultural imaginary of terrorism’ is to study how a society makes sense of terrorism and itself in relation to the phenomenon through figures of thought, frames of reference and fantasies in, among other things, national newspapers and periodicals. This paper gives an overview of the project, demonstrating our integrative use of distant and close reading methods through a pilot study of elements of the cultural imaginary of terrorism as represented in the conservative periodical Svensk Tidskrift 1945–1991. Our exploratory analysis focuses on the extraction of relevant texts, the visualization and mapping of the discourse through the development of key terms as well as individuals, places, groups and states associated with political terror and terrorism. We conclude by stressing the benefits of an integrative research design drawing upon complementary perspectives: how our text mining methods allow us to identify significant patterns in the text data and how our historical expertise allows us to single out aspects that call for further investigation.},
	journal      = {Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications},
	author       = {Fridlund, Mats and Azar, Michael and Brodén, Daniel and McGuire, Michael},
	year         = {2023},
	volume       = {5},
	number       = {1},
	pages        = {90–104},
}

@article{broden-etal-2023-diachrony-330178,
	title        = {The diachrony of the new political terrorism: Neologisms as discursive framing in Swedish parliamentary data 1971–2018},
	abstract     = {This paper begins to unpack the framing of terrorism in the Swedish Parliament through distant reading and by chronologically extracting neologisms in a comprehensive corpus of transcripts of parliamentary debates. Combining language technology and historical contextualization, we find support for the argument that the term ‘terrorism’ gained much of its modern meaning around 1970. Specifically, our study points to a legislative framing of the issue of terrorism in Swedish parliamentary debate from the early 1970s and onwards. We also find a proliferation in the production of neologisms and compounds after 9/11 2001, reflecting, among other things, the rise of a more distinct counter-terrorism discourse and more ‘specialized’ roles and functions related to terrorism and counter-terrorism activities. The paper concludes by emphasizing the analytical benefits of tracing parliamentary discourse through neologisms as an explorative approach to identify significant patterns for further investigation.},
	journal      = {Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications},
	author       = {Brodén, Daniel and Olsson, Leif-Jöran and Fridlund, Mats and Ängsal, Magnus Pettersson and Öhberg, Patrik},
	year         = {2023},
	volume       = {5},
	number       = {1},
	pages        = {79–89},
}