Friday, February 11, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] next step publishing

Interesting to compare publications that are open with those that have been reviewed. Would the analysis get different results? cf hybrid publishing models such as Transactions and Research Announcements http://www.leonardo-transactions.com/

Ernest

http://www.ernestedmonds.com

On 10/02/2011, at 10:47 PM, Avi Rosen <avi@siglab.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> Cultural Analytics - Mark Rothko Paintings - on the 287-Megapixel HIPerSpace
> Wall at Calit2
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YlT1qFhJhk&feature=player_embedded
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr
> [mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of roger
> malina
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:21 AM
> To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
> 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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