Has human beauty always been perceived in the same manner? We used a set of 120,000 paintings from different periods to analyze human faces between the 13th and the 20th centuries in order to establish whether there has been a single canon of beauty (that would...
Publications
Cultural Network and the Future of Cultural Analytics
Developing a large-scale research program based on the concept of cultural networks encompassing multiple political and geographic areas as well as historical periods, types of cultural artifacts and representations, would initiate a paradigm shift that could shed...
Collaborating, Connecting, and Clustering in the Humanities: A Case Study of Networked Scholarship in an Interdisciplinary, Dispersed Team
To what extent does networked scholarship in the humanities parallel established models in the sciences? The present study examines the connections of a 7-year interdisciplinary, dispersed, collaborative network composed of 33 humanities scholars investigating the...
Readers Read, Readers Write: A Methodology for the Study of Reading Practices in Media Convergence
In this article we propose a set of methodologies to study emerging reading practices in narratives developing simultaneously in various media. We have taken the data left by readers of the Spanish-Argentinian project Orsai in the form of blog comments, download...