Editing and analysing Early Modern news: an expert panel report

Abstract

An expert panel linked to the research project

News, Networks and Users in the Hybrid Media System. Transformation of the Media Industry and the News in the Pots-Industrial Era was held on the 22th of April, 2021, to discuss about the significance and treatment, through digital tools, of the very first news published in periodical papers in the Early Modern world, both in Europe and in America. In that seminar we had a number of the highest reputed scholars on this specific topic: Nicholas Brownlees, Joad Raymond, Paul Firbas and Carmen Espejo-Cala. Questions such as how to create and handle an electronic corpus, how to manage big data related to Early modern news, how to annotate such corpora or how to analyse different aspects of the first newsbooks and gazettes were some of the topics developed in some detail. Some directions for the future were suggested as well.