Introduction: How to See One Billion Images
Looking at Culture with Computers
Cultural Analytics: Five Ideas
Cultural Analytics: Twelve Research Challenges
What Cultural Analytics Is Not
Cultural Analytics, Media Theory, and Software Studies
1 From New Media to More Media
“From New Media to More Media” (2008)
Observing Global Culture in Real Time
Cultural Analytics in Historical Context
Analyzing, Visualizing, and Interacting with Cultural Data: Examples
History versus Present, Professionals versus Amateurs
The Regular versus the Particular
The Science of Culture? Deterministic Laws, Statistical Models, Simulation
3 Culture Industry and Media Analytics
A New Stage in Media Technology History
The Two Parts of Media Analytics
Media Analytics and Cultural Analytics
II Representing Culture as Data
Media: Social Networks and Professional Networks
Behavior: Digital and Physical Traces
Creating Representative Samples
The Limitations of Random Samples
Why We Need Big Data to Study Cultures
Statistics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: From a Single to Multiple Variables
Interpretation, Explanation, Automation
7 Language, Categories, and Senses
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Analysis
Prescriptive Aesthetics and Modernisms
Analysis Examples: 776 van Gogh Paintings and One Million Manga Pages
More Examples: One Million Artworks and 42,571 Movies
Visualization without Reduction
Beyond Information Visualization
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Using Image Features for Exploratory Media Analysis
10 Methods of Media Visualization
Conclusion: Can We Think without Categories?
Do We Want to “Explain” Culture?
Is the Goal of Cultural Analytics to Study Patterns? (Yes and No)
How to Think without Categories