Kaspar Beelen

Biographic Data

ID	1468166
NAME	Kaspar Beelen
GIVEN NAMES	Kaspar
FAMILY NAME	Beelen
SIGNATURE	BEELEN K
AFFILIATIONS	University of Amsterdam
ORCID	0000-0001-7331-1174
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	5
TOTAL CITATIONS	31
AUTHOR COUNT	5
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2024
H-INDEX	3

Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data
Open AccessKatherine McDonough, Kaspar Beelen et al.ARTICLEImago Mundi2024
The Living Machine: A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology
Open AccessDaniel C S Wilson, Mariona Coll Ardanuy et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2023
This article examines a long-standing question in the history of technology concerning the trope of the living machine. The authors do this by using a cutting-edge computational method, which they apply to large collections of digitized texts. In particular, they demonstrate the affordances of a neural language model for historical research. In a deliberate maneuver, the authors use a type of model, often portrayed as sentient today, to detect fi…
The right tool for the job: Problems and solutions in visualizing sociological theory
Open AccessGordon Brett, D Silver et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2020Cited by: 8References: 70
The visualization of social theory is an important part of the development and communication of our theoretical ideas. While most theorists use figures of some kind, few if any have formal training, or guiding rules or principles for the representation of theory. This has often led to poor visualization efforts, and the visual culture of sociology continues to lag behind the natural sciences. The intent of this paper is to serve as a practical an…
Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates
Open AccessKaspar Beelen, Timothy Alberdingk Thijm et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…2017Cited by: 14References: 16
This paper describes the digitization and enrichment of the Canadian House of Commons English Debates from 1901 to present. We start by laying out the general framework in which this project took place and then present the structure of the database and provide guidelines to prospective users. The paper concludes with the introduction ofwww.lipad.ca, an online platform designed as a hub for archiving Canadian political data, with the parliamentary…
A Feminized Language of Democracy? The Representation of Women at Westminster since 1945
Luke Blaxill, Kaspar BeelenARTICLETwentieth Century British History2016Cited by: 9
In 1919, Nancy Astor took her seat in the House of Commons as Britain’s first ever female MP. In the 1945 election, the number of women in the house nearly trebled to twenty-four, and remained around this level for the next four decades. In Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997, 120 female MPs were returned, and women have since comprised around 20 per cent of the Commons. The 2015 election saw 191 elected: the most ever. But to what extent has …

A Feminized Language of Democracy? The Representation of Women at Westminster since 1945
Luke Blaxill, Kaspar BeelenARTICLETwentieth Century British History2016Cited by: 9
In 1919, Nancy Astor took her seat in the House of Commons as Britain’s first ever female MP. In the 1945 election, the number of women in the house nearly trebled to twenty-four, and remained around this level for the next four decades. In Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997, 120 female MPs were returned, and women have since comprised around 20 per cent of the Commons. The 2015 election saw 191 elected: the most ever. But to what extent has …
Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates
Open AccessKaspar Beelen, Timothy Alberdingk Thijm et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…2017Cited by: 14References: 16
This paper describes the digitization and enrichment of the Canadian House of Commons English Debates from 1901 to present. We start by laying out the general framework in which this project took place and then present the structure of the database and provide guidelines to prospective users. The paper concludes with the introduction ofwww.lipad.ca, an online platform designed as a hub for archiving Canadian political data, with the parliamentary…
The right tool for the job: Problems and solutions in visualizing sociological theory
Open AccessGordon Brett, D Silver et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2020Cited by: 8References: 70
The visualization of social theory is an important part of the development and communication of our theoretical ideas. While most theorists use figures of some kind, few if any have formal training, or guiding rules or principles for the representation of theory. This has often led to poor visualization efforts, and the visual culture of sociology continues to lag behind the natural sciences. The intent of this paper is to serve as a practical an…
The Living Machine: A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology
Open AccessDaniel C S Wilson, Mariona Coll Ardanuy et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2023
This article examines a long-standing question in the history of technology concerning the trope of the living machine. The authors do this by using a cutting-edge computational method, which they apply to large collections of digitized texts. In particular, they demonstrate the affordances of a neural language model for historical research. In a deliberate maneuver, the authors use a type of model, often portrayed as sentient today, to detect fi…
Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data
Open AccessKatherine McDonough, Kaspar Beelen et al.ARTICLEImago Mundi2024