Journal of Cultural Analytics
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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
"The traditional tools of #DigitalHumanities […] become newly vital for a new, 'generative humanities' charged with understanding and responding to our increasingly generative cultural future." (@ryanheuser.com in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social, Oct. 2025) doi.org/10.22148/001...
📸 Esther van Raamsdonk, @yryan.bsky.social, Michael D. Rose, & @sebastianahnert.bsky.social offer a new way to consider communities that are conceptually and analytically difficult to define. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
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Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser publish ‘Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0’ in Journal of Cultural Analytics
Kotin and Koeser outline the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets.
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Journal of Cultural Analytics@culturalanalytics.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: 📚 Joshua Kotin and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social outline the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the Shakespeare and Company datasets, previously published in 2022. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
NEW: 📚 Joshua Kotin and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social outline the research, data curation, and development that led to a major update of the Shakespeare and Company datasets, previously published in 2022. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...
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📄 Rossana Scebba reflects on the growing cross-disciplinary convergence around the use of bibliographic metadata as empirical material in digital/computational history and quantitative economic history. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
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📜 What happens when historians move seamlessly between individual lives and broader social patterns? @javiercha.bsky.social explores a historian's macroscope, a computational framework for multiscalar analysis of medieval Korean biographical records using Neo4j. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
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Recently published: article on the research that went into the 2.0 version of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, and the potential of the updates and additional data on member addresses and authors. doi.org/10.22148/jca... One of the first few in the newly launched JCA!
<em>Shakespeare and Company Project</em> Data Sets, Version 2.0
The Shakespeare and Company Project data sets provide a detailed portrait of Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris. This article outlines the research,...
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Incredible!! @culturalanalytics.bsky.social is so proud to be on @janewayolh.bsky.social !!!
Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo agoThis is the main news as far as I'm concerned. PLOS moving to the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform that I founded, with @ajrbyers.bsky.social, for submissions and contributing work upstream to the main project!
Several years ago, @tedunderwood.com @dbamman.bsky.social and Sabrina Lee published "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction" in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social I wanted to query their ideas w/a mixed genre corpus of early 20th century fiction (1900-1930) I've been making. 1/
Capacious conversation and quietly humble. Crafting this keynote for global DH that brings it all back to the why DH now? Sharing some work on global south and interpretation coming out soon with @culturalanalytics.bsky.social @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social
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.
No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT
No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT
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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.
Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective
Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective
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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!
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'
Journal of Cultural Analytics@culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 11mo ago📘 New JCA article by Matt Erlin et al. culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
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.
Tug-of-War of Emotion: Measuring and Modeling Sentiment Cycles in Chinese-Language Pop Song Lyrics, 1967-2023 | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Xiaolu Wang. This study challenges the idea that pop lyrics mirror societal moods, proposing instead that sentiment patterns in Chinese and English songs reflect cultural equilibration modeled by d...
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No need to read my poppy take. You can find the original article at @culturalanalytics.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...
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🎉 We're excited to share the second half of our Special Issue "Computation and Form, Reconsidered"! 🟧
💻 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
Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics
In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
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📘 New JCA article by Matt Erlin et al. culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
Geotropes: Situating Postcolonial Bestsellers in the Global Literary Marketplace | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Matt Erlin, Douglas Knox & 4 more. A computational comparison of English-language South Asian novels and South Asian works in translation reveals how the narrow canon of postcolonial bestsellers ma...
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@culturalanalytics.bsky.social after a longer than I had hoped delay! culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...
The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...
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📢 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 culturalanalytics.org/post/3316-cf...
CFP Ten-Year Anniversary Issue: Reflections on a Decade of Seeing the Forest and the Trees | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics
Ten-Year Anniversary Issue: Reflections on a Decade of Seeing the Forest and the Trees
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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...
The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset: Data collection, scope, and data quality | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Lisa Teichmann. The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset consists of 35,972 translated titles of fiction originally published in German by 6,457 authors in 86 languages.
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📚 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...
Racial and Ethnic Representation in Literature Taught in US High Schools | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Li Lucy, Camilla Griffiths & 7 more. We quantify the representation, or presence, of characters of color in English Language Arts instruction in the United States to better understand possible raci...
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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 ✨
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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...
Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Margherita Fantoli, Jukka Suomela & 4 more. This paper focuses on the reception of classics in Early Modern England during the hand press era, concentrating on printed documents between the 1470s a...
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