Utilizing Digital Humanities Methodologies for the Empirical Study of Commonality within Chinese Culture
Forging a strong sense of communi-ty consciousness for the Chinese nation is viewed as a main task of ethnic work in the New Era of China.However,current research on this topic no-tably lacks comprehensive quantitative empirical inquiry.While existing empirical research on com-monality within Chinese culture partially addresses this lacuna,there are still new challenges in the advent of cultural digitization.To deal with this gap,this paper aims to leverage the advantages of-fered by digital humanities in acquiring abundant evidence,conducting comparative analyses of ma-terial,and presenting results,breaking through disciplinary boundaries,and synergizing the rich tapestry of high Chinese culture with emerging in-formation technology.The goal is trying to estab-lish a logical framework within the field of digital humanities tailored for empirical research on the common cultural threads within Chinese society.In this framework,based on a bidirectional driving mechanism between traditional methods of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and information technologies,the application of said technologies in empirical research on Chinese cultural commonality can be divided into three pro-gressive layers:The data layer,the algorithm lay-er,and the application layer.This bidirectional driving mechanism refers to conventional research methods and their outcomes on the topic of"Forging",seeking to provide theo-retical foundations,problem identification,clue guidance,and results interpretation for the appli-cation of information technologies.Conversely,these technologies and their applications potentially could furnish quantitative empirical tools for tradi-tional research methods that would aim to support forging a strong sense of community consciousness for the Chinese nation.The data layer should be guided by the empirical research imperatives of i-dentifying Chinese cultural commonality in real space,and should collect and organize data contai-ning Chinese cultural commonality in the digital space by determining data categories,data collec-tion and data preprocessing.After which the algo-rithm layer would transform the discovered ele-ments of Chinese cultural commonality into com-putable problems through problem abstraction,al-gorithm calculation,and knowledge discovery via computational analysis.Through this,the applica-tion layer would visualize elements of Chinese cul-tural commonality through a multifaceted lens,in-corporating dimensions of ethnicity,time,and space,serving empirical research on forging a strong sense of community consciousness for the Chinese nation,echoing and closing the loop with the problem orientation of the data layer.Within this theoretical framework delineated above,this paper selects three categories of cultur-al carriers widely presented in text,image,and audio modalities-Chinese literature,Chinese cos-tumes,and Chinese music-as its research con-tent,further exploring the practical application of digital humanities methodologies for empirical re-search on Chinese cultural commonality.This would include the construction of cultural carrier datasets,the exploration of elements of Chinese cultural commonality,and the construction of plat-forms tailored for the presentation and application of identified elements of Chinese cultural common-ality.This paper seeks to provide a novel research paradigm for forging a strong sense of community consciousness for the Chinese nation,particularly emphasizing the potential application of information technology in cultural research domains.In con-clusion,this paper serves as a cogent response to the new challenges of empirical research on Chi-nese cultural commonality in the context of cultural digitization.Moreover,it underscores the pivotal role of information technology in consolidating China's cultural security and bolstering its discur-sive influence on forging a strong sense of commu-nity consciousness for the Chinese nation.
forging a strong sense of commu-nity for the Chinese nationChinese culturedigit-al humanitiesinformation technology
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