Ernest
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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> 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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