Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Dawson, Gowan; Topham, Jonathan R.; Csiszar, Alex; Belknap, Geoffrey; Wale, Matthew; Lightman, Bernard; Frampton, Sally; Shuttleworth, Sally

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“…For instance, the academic society exerted a great influence on the quality and the goals of this journal (Atkinson 1998). More importantly, the professionalization of science as a career and of scientists forced scientific discourse to become professional and specialized in its language and structure through various strategies such as peer-reviewing (Dawson et al 2020;Spier 2002). We propose a specific hypothesis concerning the influence of external factors that include the following elements: editors, sponsor, reviewing policy and science community.…”

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The evolutionary pattern of language in scientific writings: A case study of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (1665–1869)

2020

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Scientific writings, as one essential part of human culture, have evolved over centuries into their current form. Knowing how scientific writings evolved is particularly helpful in understanding how trends in scientific culture developed. It also allows us to better understand how scientific culture was interwoven with human culture generally. The availability of massive digitized texts and the progress in computational technologies today provide us with a convenient and credible way to discern the evolutionary patterns in scientific writings by examining the diachronic linguistic changes. The linguistic changes in scientific writings reflect the genre shifts that took place with historical changes in science and scientific writings. This study investigates a general evolutionary linguistic pattern in scientific writings. It does so by merging two credible computational methods: relative entropy; word-embedding concreteness and imageability. It thus creates a novel quantitative methodology and applies this to the examination of diachronic changes in the Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (PTRS, 1665–1869). The data from two computational approaches can be well mapped to support the argument that this journal followed the evolutionary trend of increasing professionalization and specialization. But it also shows that language use in this journal was greatly influenced by historical events and other socio-cultural factors. This study, as a “culturomic” approach, demonstrates that the linguistic evolutionary patterns in scientific discourse have been interrupted by external factors even though this scientific discourse would likely have cumulatively developed into a professional and specialized genre. The approaches proposed by this study can make a great contribution to full-text analysis in scientometrics.

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The evolutionary pattern of language in scientific writings: A case study of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (1665–1869)

2020

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“…It had both citizen science and citizen humanities at its heart and broke down barriers between the two forms. In the nineteenth century, it looked at the role played by non-professionals in the construction of scientific practices, paying particular attention to the huge growth of periodicals, from local natural history magazines to the proceedings of learned societies, in order to track the ways in which science is actively created through the processes of exchange, processes which the humanities are best equipped to understand and address (Dawson et al 2020). This understanding then informed the work with citizen humanities and science in the digital age.…”

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Citizen Humanities

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Oswald

Weißpflug

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The Science of Citizen Science

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Citizen humanities is the term for citizen ‘science’ in the humanities. It has a long tradition and, since the object of investigation is human culture, raises questions about values, cultural significance, and deeper meaning of phenomena related to human culture.The development of digital technologies not only led to the emergence of digital humanities but also to new ways of involving citizens in the activities of cultural heritage institutions and academic research. Participants’ contributions to academic research and to the preservation of cultural heritage range from uncovering treasures hidden in archives and digital environments to tapping local knowledge. Their tasks have included tagging, transcribing, or cataloguing artefacts, through which they acquire specialist knowledge and competences, while assisting scholars and researchers to gain new insights. Challenges in the citizen humanities include biases, participant training and retention, as well as the advancement of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence.Citizen humanities can combine topical issues in society with academic knowledge, demonstrate the relevance of the humanities for society, and establish a direct link to its members. In addition to the advancement of knowledge, the citizen humanities can unlock the potential of embedded, diverse, and culturally sensitive knowledge and play a crucial role in preserving and enriching cultural heritage.

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“…Dawson et al 2020;Daum 1998;Lightman 2007;Secord 2001. Visual Cultures, Publication Technologies, and Legitimation Ber.Wissenschaftsgesch. 46 (2023): 283 -293 …”

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Commentary: Visual Cultures, Publication Technologies, and Legitimation in the Life Sciences**

Nyhart

2023

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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This paper comments on five articles in the special issue “Circulating Images in the Life Sciences.” It sees the papers as unified by two themes. The first is their attention to the processes of legitimation. The second is the embedding of the images in textual cultures, which changed over time from the mid‐nineteenth century to the very recent past, most notably with the recent advent of digital culture.

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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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The evolutionary pattern of language in scientific writings: A case study of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (1665–1869)

The evolutionary pattern of language in scientific writings: A case study of Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (1665–1869)

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Commentary: Visual Cultures, Publication Technologies, and Legitimation in the Life Sciences**

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