This article explores how digital tools and computational methods can help study culture at scale, combining data analysis with cultural interpretation. It emphasizes the potential of digital humanities approaches to uncover patterns in everyday media. This is similar to how Selfiecity analyzes selfies to reveal global cultural trends. Manovich’s discussion of cultural analytics mirrors Selfiecity’s approach, using large scale social media data and computational tools to understand visual self representation and societal patterns.
Manovich, Lev. “The Science of Culture? Social Computing, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Analytics.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2016. https://doi.org/10.22148/16.0001
