Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.

We wouldn’t be anywhere without the great work of our authors and reviewers. Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a restful end to 2025!

Excited to read a paper on computational postcolonial literary analysis! More please 🤲🏻🤲🏻

This by Matt Erlin, Douglas Knox, Claudia Carroll, @jeysushil.bsky.social, Tumaini Ussiri & Sadahisa Watanabe is excellent: postcolonial corpus comparison, using quantitative proxies for 'literariness' and 'cosmopolitanism'

NEW: 🎶 What if pop music shapes our feelings as much as it reflects them? A new study by Xiaolu Wang of 260k+ Chinese-language songs (1967-2023) finds lyrical sentiments moves in 35-year emotional cycles.

No need to read my poppy take. You can find the original article at @culturalanalytics.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

🎉 We're excited to share the second half of our Special Issue "Computation and Form, Reconsidered"! 🟧

💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment. culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788

📘 New JCA article by Matt Erlin et al. culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

@culturalanalytics.bsky.social after a longer than I had hoped delay! culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

📢 CFP: JCA Ten-Year Anniversary Issue The Journal of Cultural Analytics turns 10! We're marking the moment with a special issue reflecting on a decade of studying culture at scale—and imagining what comes next. 📅 Abstracts due: Sept 1, 2025 culturalanalytics.org/post/3316-cf...

The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset consists of 35,972 translated titles of fiction originally published in German between 1980-2020 by 6,457 authors in 86 languages." Check out the newest dataset published at JCA by Lisa Teichmann! 🤩 culturalanalytics.org/article/1280...

📚 Check out the newest JCA article by Li Lucy (@lucy3.bsky.social), Camilla Griffiths, Claire Ying, JJ Kim-Ebio, Sabrina Baur, Sarah Levine, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, David Bamman (@dbamman.bsky.social), and Dorottya Demszky. culturalanalytics.org/article/1316...

This article about fan culture in 1920s Spain received the 2024–25 Humanities Research Prize at UIUC. First time I think an article in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social has won here? Congrats Anna Torres-Cacoullos and Elizaveta Senatorova! culturalanalytics.org/article/1181...

Stoked to join the editorial board of advisors for @culturalanalytics.bsky.social under the new co-leadership of brilliant Amelia Acker, @tanyaclement.bsky.social and @mmvty.bsky.social ✨

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! JCA is so pleased to welcome 22 new editorial board members 🦾 Check out the updated masthead on our website: culturalanalytics.org/editorial-bo...

🗣️ We’re excited to share the first JCA article of 2025! “Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain” by Margherita Fantoli, Jukka Suomela, Toon Van Hal, Mark Depauw, Lari Virkki, and Mikko Tolonen.  culturalanalytics.org/article/1280...

Check out this new CFP for a Special Issue on "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South," guest-edited by @patymurrieta.bsky.social and @dharanpreethi.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/post/2820-cf... Abstracts are due January 15, 2025. 💥

culturalanalytics.bsky.social want to make sure you all know we are here, and have left the other place. Please follow & share.

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1. Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

what if... doing theory as "footnote to plato" always was part of the problem? o.O manifesto for not poking out our own eyes, when going theory in the humanities #vis4dh @culturalanalytics.bsky.social culturalanalytics.org/article/1218...

🥳 Better late than never! We’re excited to announce that The Journal of Cultural Analytics is now on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated on our latest publications, special issues, and other exciting content 📚 ✨