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The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters 维基百科文学人物共和国

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-05-11 DOI: 10.22148/001c.70251

P. Wojcik, Bastian Bunzeck, Sina Zarrieß

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Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata 量化差距:法国作家维基数据中的性别差距

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.22148/001c.74068

M. Conroy

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Searching maps by words: how machine learning changes the way we explore map collections 通过文字搜索地图:机器学习如何改变我们探索地图集合的方式

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.22148/001c.74293

Valeria Vitale

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Escritor / Qillqaq: The Representation of Peruvian Literature in the Spanish and Quechua Wikipedias Escritor / Qillqaq:秘鲁文学在西班牙语和盖丘亚语维基百科中的表现

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.22148/001c.73258

Daniel Carrillo-Jara

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An Ever-Expanding World Literary Genre: Defining Magic Realism on Wikipedia 不断扩大的世界文学流派:在维基百科上定义魔幻现实主义

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.22148/001c.73249

Matylda Figlerowicz, Lucas Mertehikian

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From the Archive to the Computer: Michel Foucault and the Digital Humanities 从档案到计算机：米歇尔·福柯与数字人文

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.22148/001c.55795

H. Schmidgen, Bernhard J. Dotzler, Benno Stein

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Italian Nostalgia: National and Global Identities of the Italian Novel 意大利怀旧：意大利小说的民族性与全球性

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.22148/001c.68341

Anna Sofia Lippolis

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‘A pretty sublime mix of WTF and OMG’. Four explorations into the practice of evaluation on online book reviewing platforms “WTF和OMG的完美结合”。网络书评平台评价实践的四项探索

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-02-20 DOI: 10.22148/001c.68086

P. Boot

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How Network Analysis Uncovers International Networks of Smuggling History: Criminals in Nagasaki, Japan circa 1667 网络分析如何揭示国际走私网络的历史:1667年左右日本长崎的罪犯

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-02-13 DOI: 10.22148/001c.68188

Hyeok Hweon Kang

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Should we really ‘hermeneutise’ the Digital Humanities? A plea for the epistemic productivity of a ‘cultural technique of flattening’ in the Humanities. 我们真的应该“利用”数字人文吗？对人文学科中“扁平化的文化技术”的认识生产力的恳求。

Journal of Cultural Analytics Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.22148/001c.55592

Sybille Krämer

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