This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities. In our time of great and uncertain change, business, government, and education must partner in many forms of technical and cultural convergence–for the benefit of both human welfare and economic recovery. This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities. One popular form of artificial social intelligence, recommender systems, can become a far more valuable tool for research on the arts, beginning with movies and computer games, then extending to all the other art forms. While artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool for description of physical reality, it must become both social and cultural if it is to be a valued tool of human expression. Many new developments offer opportunities and challenges for both industry and government policy. This book shows how artificial intelligence and related information technologies can converge successfully with the social sciences and humanities, so together they can achieve maximum benefits for people.
... can be things that an individual Buddhist practitioner cannot find yet it can be discovered through scientific processes.” The second set of factors scaffolds the first: monastics grounded their engagement with science within their ...
This first major guide and review of the new field of feminist cultural studies of science and technology provides readers with an accessible introduction to its theories and methods.
This work adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its study of 20th-century Spanish culture and society, emphasizing contemporary developments.
In Cultural Analytics, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee.
Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies.
This comprehensive handbook covers all domains of developmental science from a cultural point of view and in all regions of the globe.
This is a tried and tested book which has been widely used wherever cultural studies is taught. It is an indispensable undergraduate text and one that will appeal to postgraduates seeking a ′refresher′ which they can dip into.
With this book cultural studies finally comes of age methodologically' - Professor Norman K Denzin, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois Doing Research in Cultural Studies outlines the key methodological approaches ...
The place of science We may agree that these arguments work in relation to the social and cultural world , but where does this view of knowledge leave the ' hard ' sciences ? Does not physics place before us indisputable and eternal ...