Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film

D Bamman, R Samberg, RJ So, N Zhou - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study
at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in the United States due to the Digital …

Abolitionist networks: Modeling language change in nineteenth-century activist newspapers

S Soni, L Klein, J Eisenstein - arxiv preprint arxiv:2103.07538, 2021 - arxiv.org
The abolitionist movement of the nineteenth-century United States remains among the most
significant social and political movements in US history. Abolitionist newspapers played a …

On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics

D Bamman, KK Chang, L Lucy, N Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.12029, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we survey the way in which classification is used as a sensemaking practice in
cultural analytics, and assess where large language models can fit into this landscape. We …

[BOOK][B] The values in numbers: reading Japanese literature in a global information age

H Long - 2021 - degruyter.com
Cocteau wrote that the only way to record poetry was to speak as if whispering. His actual
recordings weren't “like whispering” at all. But when he says “like whispering,” I think he's …

Mutual Sustainability among Communities and Their Knowledge Infrastructures

K Fenlon, A Reza, J Grimmer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Digital, community‐based knowledge infrastructures confront complex, systemic challenges
to their sustainability over time. From digital community archives to computationally …

The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities

M Walsh - Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, 2023 - books.google.com
During the Q&A after my 2017 talk at Michigan State University's Global Digital Humanities
conference, a faculty member raised his hand and asked a series of questions that …

With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass, L'Union, and Editorship Studies

J Casey, SH Salter - American Literature, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
This essay calls for the concerted study of editorship as a distinct mode of cultural
expression. Given that the collaborative craft of editors is often invisible, the study of …

[HTML][HTML] What We Didn't Know a Recipe Could Be: Political Commentary, Machine Learning Models, and the Fluidity of Form in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper …

A Blankenship - Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2024 - culturalanalytics.org
In this article, I use document embedding models and a training set of nineteenth-century
American recipes to build a pipeline classifier for identifying recipes in the broader …

The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism

E Duede, RJ So - Poetics Today, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
Across the humanities, the response to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI—
large language models (LLMs) that can automatically generate human-like text—has been …

A Methodology for Studying Linguistic and Cultural Change in China, 1900-1950

SD Stewart - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.04286, 2025 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a quantitative approach to studying linguistic and cultural change in
China during the first half of the twentieth century, a period that remains understudied in …