Category: cultural studies

Architecting Better Data-driven Digital Experiences

The Alliance of Geeks and Poets: Quantifying Culture

November 16, 2010

An “alliance of geeks and poets” is how Patricia Cohen describes the emergence of data-driven research in the humanities in her great piece in the New York Times. Ms. Cohen ‘s article describes the rise of “digital humanities”. As she reports, “…researchers are digitally mapping Civil War battlefields to understand what role topography played in…
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No Permission: Lawrence Lessig’s great review of ‘The Social Network’ and what it missed

October 4, 2010

URL: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/78081/sorkin-… From the article: “What is important in Zuckerberg’s story is not that he’s a boy genius. He plainly is, but many are. It’s not that he’s a socially clumsy (relative to the Harvard elite) boy genius. Every one of them is. And it’s not that he invented an amazing product through hard work…
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