A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and
methods for computational analysis of cultural data. How can we see a billion images? What …

We are living through an exponential explosion in the amounts of data we are generating,
capturing, analyzing, visualizing, and storing–including cultural content. On August 25 …

I present a number of core concepts from data science that are relevant to digital art history
and the use of quantitative methods to study any cultural artifacts or processes in general …

A well-developed cultural studies approach has an important role to play in considering the
social and political consequences of data mining and analytics. When every move we make …

The rise of the Internet, social media, and digitized historical archives has produced a
colossal amount of text-based data in recent years. While computer scientists have …

In the era of “big data,” the methodological technique of content analysis can be the most
powerful tool in the researcher's kit. Content analysis is versatile enough to apply to textual …

Analyzing Media Messages, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to conducting
content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; …

Employing a number of different standalone programs is a prevalent approach among
communication scholars who use computational methods to analyze media content. For …

Forty years ago, this chapter's title might have seemed oxymoronic. Early network analysis
was rooted in social psychology (sociometry) or in a radical structuralism (blockmodeling) …

Over the last two decades, the formal study of culture has grown into one of the most
exciting, systematic, and dynamic sub-fields in sociology. In this essay, we take stock of …