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CULTURAL DATA (Cultural Sampling (Humanities : No averages (Adolphe…
CULTURAL DATA
Cultural Sampling
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how can we compile REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES that systematically cover everything created in a particular period, geographic area and media
Samples: a smaller subset of the larger data - We do not have systematic samples of modern visual and media culture
e.g. samples of photography : They added certain photos to their collections because each photo was interesting to them for some reason.
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National Gallery of Art: The Art of American Snapshot, 1888–1978 : the exhibition only had 200 photographs for a 90-year period
Gallup U.S. Daily poll : interviews 500 people across U.S. every day > 175000 per years. Weights it on the basis of gender, age, race, education, ethnicity, region etc. > using data from others surveys :: This systematic approach to sampling and analysis is absent in humanitics
balanced cultural sample : include a proportion of all works produced in particular media, period, and place or what audiences actually read, watched, or listened to.
The sophisticated sampling methods used in sciences should be adopted for analysis of historical cultural artifacts as well :: all participants and artifacts are important – as opposed to only a set of “masterpieces.”
Why its imp? The examples selected as samples contribute to for how we understand, represent and teach human cultural history
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standard statistical measures of a large population can easily miss the presence of various groupings in this population
Humanities : No averages
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instagram- selfies - avg angle of smile, size of face etc
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Social n/w fb, insta, whtsapp : used in major countries had constraints and standard formats > does this lead to less diversity in user-generated content?
Data Representation
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The forth issue is what content people share, what comments they make, and what they are willing to say online
access to social media data : there are limits on how much data can be downloaded : privacy concerns and unauthorized usage
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using small samples from diverse cultural “population” : miss “regional variations” and “presence and activity of endless users who do not have the typical behaviors and posts.”
Museums vs Libraries
Libraries ended up housing millions of all kinds of heterogeneous items, few of them financially valuable
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Art museums: ordered classifications - art & everything else, digital archives: trivia & ephemera
Labyrinth, kaleidoscope, Kunstcamera, Memex’ hypertext, random access memory, relational database : none describe the experience of NAVIGATING
lack of a unique style : every possible subject and form of visual communication is here- But this heterogeneity, richness and variety is actually a good thing - It forces us to face the human visual culture as it really exists historically
WHY: issues regarding the “shape” of the digital visual collections : from a point of - researcher who use computational methods
the analysis has to start with some concrete existing data irrespective of the analytical methods used
The “shapes” of existing digital collections may enable some research directions and make others more difficult
The Islands and The Ocean >> what has been digitized, is only an “island,” and that a massive cultural “ocean” remains inaccessible for quantitative analysis
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over two billion people are sharing their culture through photos, video, links, writing posts, comments, ratings, etc
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