Cultural Analytics. The Humanistic Science of Culture.
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Juan Luis Suárez, CulturePlex Lab at Western University, Ontario (Canada)
- When
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2016/06/07
14:00 - Place
- Donostia International Physics Center. Pº Manuel de Lardizabal 4, Donostia - San Sebastián
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Cultural Analytics has become an emerging area of multidisciplinary research
in which humanists, scientists, and artists come together to analyze and
understand the role of cultural creation in people's behaviour. The
interaction among disciplines and the use of a hybrid toolkit that includes
big data, machine learning, modelling, close reading, and human and computer
vision are proving fruitful in two spheres: understanding why humans cannot
stop creating cultural objects -popular and high level-, and repositioning the
questions that make possible and relevant humanistic disciplines in an age of
networked and globalized humanity. This questions relate to the complex
challenges that we face as human species and cultural communities in the 21st
Century and that are not solvable by individual or traditional knowledge
approaches.
**Juan Luis Suárez** is Professor of Digital Humanities and Computer Science
at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada), where he is also the Director
of the CulturePlex Lab - one of Canada's leading centres for digital research
and innovation within the humanities.