Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Luncheon Series

Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows & Jean-Baptiste Michel, FQEB Fellow at Harvard (and both Visiting Faculty at Google)

Erez Lieberman Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel show how an analysis of a corpus of digitized text can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.

Academic Uses of Social Media: Exploring 21st Century Communications

Webcast Event

Social media — from blogs to wikis to tweets — have become academic media, new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach. Hear from a distinguished faculty panel, moderated by John Palfrey, about how they are adopting and adapting to new communication and networking tools, following a keynote by social media thought leader danah boyd.