Viktor Šik: Kulturní analytika – metoda vizualizace velkých kulturních dat (2012) [Czech]

Předmětem této magisterské diplomové práce je kulturní analytika jako metoda pro výzkum kulturní produkce se zaměřením na vizuální produkci za použití nejnovějších technologií výpočetní techniky. Práce si klade za cíl představit základní principy kulturní analytiky, teoretický a historický kontext a související metodologii jakou je například vizualizace informací. Debata o kulturní analytice je zasazena do diskurzu softwarových studií jakožto nové humanistické a uměnovědné disciplíně, která se kriticky vymezuje proti mediálním studiím a obrací se k základním principům informačních technologií. Závěrečná případová studie pak ve smyslu kulturní analytiky demonstruje možnosti zpracování velkých dat, techniky automatizované analýzy a způsoby vizualizace médií na analýze vytvořené výhradně pro účely této práce.

Magisterská diplomová práce
Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury/Teorie interaktivních médií
Vedoucí práce: Jana Horáková
Brno: FF MU, 2012

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Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies, Issue One: A Billion Gadget Minds (2011)

Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures.

“This first issue of Computational Culture is loosely based on the proceedings of a workshop held in Central London in October 2010. Entitled ‘A Billon Gadgets Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow’, the aim of the workshop was: “To evaluate the ways in which contemporary hardware and software augment and distribute intelligence, as well as the ensemble of social relations which form around thinking practices as they synchronise, mesh, de-couple, breakdown and collapse with variable effects”.” (from Editorial)

With contributions by Michael Wheeler, Anna Munster, Ingmar Lippert, Luciana Parisi and Stamatia Portanova, Lev Manovich, Yuk Hui, Benedikte Zitouni, Michael Batty, Olga Goriunova, Jentery Sayers, M. Beatrice Fazi

Editorial group: Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Adrian Mackenzie
Published in December 2011
Open access
ISSN 2047-2390

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011)

“New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things–mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates “programmed visions,” which seek to shape and predict–even embody–a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability.

Chun approaches the concept of programmability through the surprising materialization of software as a “thing” in its own right, tracing the hardening of programming into software and of memory into storage. She argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The less we know, the more we are shown. This paradox, Chun argues, does not diminish new media’s power, but rather grounds computing’s appeal. Its combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known–its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware–makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture.”

Publisher MIT Press, 2011
Software Studies series
ISBN 0262015420, 9780262015424
239 pages

Reviews: Jentery Sayers (Computational Culture, 2011), McKenzie Wark (Public Seminar, 2015).

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