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Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and computer science dedicated to the computational study of culture. https://culturalanalytics.org
Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.
CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.
We wouldn’t be anywhere without the great work of our authors and reviewers. Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a restful end to 2025!
Excited to read a paper on computational postcolonial literary analysis! More please 🤲🏻🤲🏻
This by Matt Erlin, Douglas Knox, Claudia Carroll, @jeysushil.bsky.social, Tumaini Ussiri & Sadahisa Watanabe is excellent: postcolonial corpus comparison, using quantitative proxies for 'literariness' and 'cosmopolitanism'
NEW: 🎶 What if pop music shapes our feelings as much as it reflects them? A new study by Xiaolu Wang of 260k+ Chinese-language songs (1967-2023) finds lyrical sentiments moves in 35-year emotional cycles.
No need to read my poppy take. You can find the original article at @culturalanalytics.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
📺 In this article, Lauren Tilton and Justin Wigard revisit published work and explore forthcoming research to demonstrate computational formalist studies of history, culture, and context in visual media. @nolauren.bsky.social @justinwigard.bsky.social
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
🔮 Digital pranks have earned a reputation for platform-based popularity. But how prominent are such pranks amongst other “viral” genres? And what might they reveal about viral video as cultural form? Read through Tess McNulty's article to find out!
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📙 Ryan Heuser's "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse" examines "the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments." @heuser.bsky.social
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🎉 We're excited to share the second half of our Special Issue "Computation and Form, Reconsidered"! 🟧
👾 "Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure" by Katherine Elkins (@katelelkins.bsky.social)
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💬 "Parler Games: A Narrative Framework Analysis of Parler Conspiracy Theories and the January 6th Insurrection" by Miller et al. uses a narrative analytical approach to Parler discussions to reveal the relationship between storytelling and real world action.
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📐 "Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters" by James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social) examines how neural network architectures materially shape the capacities, outputs, and interpretive possibilities of machine learning models.
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🧩 Introduction by the special issue editors, Laura Alice Chapot and Tess McNulty. The articles in this special issue will be published in groups on a rolling basis over the coming weeks.
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💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
@culturalanalytics.bsky.social after a longer than I had hoped delay!
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🥸 Guest editors:
@javiercha.bsky.social Javier Cha, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Hong Kong University
Matt Erlin, Professor of German Studies, Washington University
Susan Schreibman, Professor of Digital Arts and Culture, Maastricht University
📢 CFP: JCA Ten-Year Anniversary Issue
The Journal of Cultural Analytics turns 10! We're marking the moment with a special issue reflecting on a decade of studying culture at scale—and imagining what comes next.
📅 Abstracts due: Sept 1, 2025
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The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset consists of 35,972 translated titles of fiction originally published in German between 1980-2020 by 6,457 authors in 86 languages." Check out the newest dataset published at JCA by Lisa Teichmann! 🤩 culturalanalytics.org/article/1280...
📚 Check out the newest JCA article by Li Lucy (@lucy3.bsky.social), Camilla Griffiths, Claire Ying, JJ Kim-Ebio, Sabrina Baur, Sarah Levine, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, David Bamman (@dbamman.bsky.social), and Dorottya Demszky. culturalanalytics.org/article/1316...
This article about fan culture in 1920s Spain received the 2024–25 Humanities Research Prize at UIUC. First time I think an article in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social has won here? Congrats Anna Torres-Cacoullos and Elizaveta Senatorova! culturalanalytics.org/article/1181...
Stoked to join the editorial board of advisors for @culturalanalytics.bsky.social under the new co-leadership of brilliant Amelia Acker, @tanyaclement.bsky.social and @mmvty.bsky.social ✨
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! JCA is so pleased to welcome 22 new editorial board members 🦾 Check out the updated masthead on our website: culturalanalytics.org/editorial-bo...
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🗣️ We’re excited to share the first JCA article of 2025! “Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain” by Margherita Fantoli, Jukka Suomela, Toon Van Hal, Mark Depauw, Lari Virkki, and Mikko Tolonen.
culturalanalytics.org/article/1280...
Check out this new CFP for a Special Issue on "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South," guest-edited by @patymurrieta.bsky.social and @dharanpreethi.bsky.social:
culturalanalytics.org/post/2820-cf...
Abstracts are due January 15, 2025. 💥
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Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1.
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