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Analytical sociologists are harnessing troves of digitized text, digital trace, and social network data—along with the computational tools for their analysis—to answer sociology’s core questions in novel and rigorous ways.

In August 2021 the German Literature Archive in Marbach will host an international symposium entitled “Literature in the Nobel Era: Comparative, Theoretical, and Archival Approaches to the Nobel Prize in Literature."

This project applies recent advances in computational text analysis to examine the process of awarding the Nobel Prizes in science and literature.

The success of Hollywood movies depends a great deal on their genre assignments. How likable are films that span multiple cultural categories?

Formulating and testing theories of peer influence among interconnected consumers of culture i.e. songs, books, movies, etc. to understand the emergence of hits, the establishment of new artists and genres, and cultural change more generally.

The Nobel Prize – including in literature – is awarded in December every year. Researcher Jacob Habinek at Linköping University has analysed how the Nobel Prize became a world prize.