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[mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of roger
malina
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:21 AM
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Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] next step publishing
yasminers
another strand on next step publishing, is the new emerging field of
'Culturnomics", or the analysis of digital data to analyse cultural
developments
the most recent example of this work is of Jean Baptise Michel and team who
analysed 5 million digitised books
Science Journal 14 jan 2011 vol 331 p176
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644
the tools they implement are the kinds of tools that I worked on with mark
beam and the straddle3 groupe in barcelona in 1995 at our first attempts to
develop a "stock market of ideas"
it is now possible for instance to analyse empirically how the idea of 'next
step publishing' is developing, watch the spread of the idea through
different on line and text communities
this is also part of 'data journalism', of which of course wikileaks is but
one example
Michel and colleagues plot the popularity for instance of various thinkers
through their being mentioned. Surprisingly Freud remains in the english
speaking literature the most prominent , with darwin second.
What this means of course is one can start doing 'predictions'
by looking at trends in ideas that are being discussed, whether they are
gaining strength or not ( and of course this means also there are new means
of manipulation such as new tools for censors)
Michel also looks at how one can by analysing the dissapearance of terms
find evidence for censorship - for instance the artist marc chagall was on
the forbidden list for the Nazis, and his name disappeared from german
literature, at the same time as his name grew in reputation in the english
speaking literature
they point out that one can analyse current on line data to detect evidence
of hidden censorship
so next step publishing =maybe we can start writing texts of the future by
just extrapolating the last 500 years of publishing !
Michel and colleagues can predict what words are becoming more frequent, new
words that are appearing etc
roger
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