Tag: cultural analytics
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Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body o… https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.70024 more ›
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Generative AI does not represent a break from this tradition, but its most democratic evolution. By acting as a digital atelier, a conceptual machine, and an intertextual loom, AI allows… more ›
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Metalabel is a growing universe of knowledge, resources, and spaces for metalabels and other cultural collectives. https://releases.metalabel.xyz/r01/introducing-metalabel?ref=blog.metalabel.com more ›
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Subcultures are vulnerable because they form around shared common-knowledge texts (even if the shared text in question comprises nothing more than a particular vocabulary of new urban slang). In Web… more ›
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Each group shared cultural as much as sartorial codes, properly known only to insiders. Which is one reason why the establishment reacted so vehemently in the 1960s, because in being… more ›
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After centuries of remaining largely inaccessible to the public, a rare manuscript featuring 2,500 pages of detailed illustrations and text documenting the history and culture of 16th-century Mexico is now… more ›
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If you’re a Londoner, or even if you’re not, have you noticed the way a lot of young Londoners speak, particularly in places like Hackney or Lewisham or other inner-city… more ›
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In an era of remote work, when people can work from anywhere, where will they choose to live? And what can cities do to set themselves apart from the competition?… more ›
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“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they’re indistinguishable from it.” That quote from computer scientist Mark Weiser is… more ›