Abstract
This essay introduces the articles found in this special joint issue of Post-45 and the Journal of Cultural Analytics, “Post-45 by the Numbers.” It foregrounds the affordances of computational methods for the study of contemporary culture and literature, and offers brief summaries of each of the eight essays that follow in this special issue.
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Contemporary Culture After Data Science Richard Jean SoRichard Jean So, McGill University ABSTRACTThis essay introduces the articles found in this special joint issue of Post-45 and the Journal of Cultural Analytics, "Post-45 by the Numbers." It foregrounds the affordances of computational methods for the study of contemporary culture and literature, and offers brief summaries of each of the eight essays that follow in this special issue.The computational study of contemporary culture is experiencing something of a renaissance across the university
The affordances of digitized data and new computational methods have already begun to leave their mark on a number of disciplines, from political science to psychology, facilitating a series of disciplinary breakthroughs
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen have used new datasets to study the history of slavery and its lingering effects on contemporary voting patterns in the Deep South.[9]
Summary
Contemporary Culture After Data Science Richard Jean SoRichard Jean So, McGill University ABSTRACTThis essay introduces the articles found in this special joint issue of Post-45 and the Journal of Cultural Analytics, "Post-45 by the Numbers." It foregrounds the affordances of computational methods for the study of contemporary culture and literature, and offers brief summaries of each of the eight essays that follow in this special issue.The computational study of contemporary culture is experiencing something of a renaissance across the university. The affordances of digitized data and new computational methods have already begun to leave their mark on a number of disciplines, from political science to psychology, facilitating a series of disciplinary breakthroughs.
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