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@incollection{broden-etal-2026-retouching-362272,
	title        = {Retouching and Refiguring lIterary Criticism: Experiments with a Generative Model for Analyzing Book Reviews},
	abstract     = {In the chapter, Daniel Brodén, Lina Samuelsson, and David Alfter ­ examines the use of GPT-4o to analyze Swedish literary criticism from 1905–1906. Drawing on defamiliarization and the notion of distant technology, and framing AI as artificial communication rather than intelligence, the chapter undertakes two linked experiments to enrich analysis of familiar material based on a previous study by Samuelsson (2013). First, ­ Brodén, Samuelsson, and Alfter address the challenge posed by the poor quality of digitized newspaper texts in the National Library of Sweden’s (­ Kungliga biblioteket, hereafter KB) collection, showing that the model’s output aligns more closely with the originals than does the noisy OCR, while arguing that it is better understood as a probabilistic retouching rather than a reconstruction, thereby introducing epistemological ­ un­ certainty. Second, using zero-shot prompting, they ask the model to identify discursive patterns and evaluative criteria in the reviews. The results suggest that GPT-4o can provide analytically meaningful perspectives, but its opacity creates methodological distance that calls for analytical caution, further re-readings, and reflection.},
	booktitle    = {Flows & Frictions: Mixed Methods for AI-Driven Research on Historical Media},
	author       = {Brodén, Daniel and Samuelsson, Lina and Alfter, David},
	year         = {2026},
	publisher    = {LIR Skifter},
	address      = {Göteborg},
	ISBN         = {978-91-89284-18-0},
}

@incollection{broden-2026-introduction-362270,
	title        = {Introduction},
	abstract     = {Flows & Frictions showcases a range of approaches that integrate computational and humanistic approaches for context-sensitive AI-driven research on historical media. Bringing together scholars from comparative literature, history of ideas, film and media studies, sociology, and language technology, this anthology addresses key questions for interdisciplinary research in the digital humanities and beyond. How can we deepen the reflexive collaboration between these traditions in the study of historical media? How can mixed methods develop nuanced arguments about complex disciplinary issues in data-rich research? How should digitized collections be constructed not only as “data” but also as representations embedded in their historical and material contexts? And how can we sustain tensions between disciplinary perspectives as a source of creativity?},
	booktitle    = {Flows & Frictions: Mixed Methods for AI-Driven Research on Historical Media},
	author       = {Brodén, Daniel},
	year         = {2026},
	publisher    = {LIR Skrifter},
	address      = {Göteborg},
	ISBN         = {978-91-89284-18-0},
	pages        = {9},
}

@edited_book{broden-samuelsson-2026-flows-362266,
	title        = {Flows & Frictions: Mixed Methods for AI-Driven Research on Historical Media},
	abstract     = {Flows & Frictions showcases a range of approaches that integrate computational and humanistic approaches for context-sensitive AI-driven research on historical media. Bringing together scholars from comparative literature, history of ideas, film and media studies, sociology, and language technology, this anthology addresses key questions for interdisciplinary research in the digital humanities and beyond. How can we deepen the reflexive collaboration between these traditions in the study of historical media? How can mixed methods develop nuanced arguments about complex disciplinary issues in data-rich research? How should digitized collections be constructed not only as “data” but also as representations embedded in their historical and material contexts? And how can we sustain tensions between disciplinary perspectives as a source of creativity?},
	editor       = {Brodén, Daniel and Samuelsson, Lina},
	year         = {2026},
	publisher    = {LIR Skrifter},
	address      = {Göteborg},
	ISBN         = {978-91-89284-18-0},
}