Digital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the post-viral Web

How to move along with the audiovisual, vibey, and AI-infused feeds of today’s platforms? Sal Hagen, together with Daniël de Zeeuw and Tommaso, theorize ‘digital rhythmanalysis’ as a potential new quali-quantitative approach to measure and ‘feel’ rhythms online. Digital rhythmanalysis emphasizes time before space and can study moments of (viral) intensity as well as everyday […]

Keywords in Digital Humanities: A critical assessment of computational techniques for mapping security and freedom in historical debates

How do different computational techniques construct the keyword? And how can we understand keywords as map-maping techniques of cultural phenomena? In a new paper for Digital Humanities Quarterly, Tobias Blanke and Chloe Papadopoulou investigate the continued importance of keywords in digital humanities and especially their relation to recent machine-learning approaches. They take three approaches – […]