The
overall goal of this special issue is to examine how the development
and application of computational tools reconfigures social science
research and, more specifically, the study of cultural conflict. The
contributions to the collection come out of the ODYCCEUS research
project, a large EU-funded research project, subsidized in the context
of the FET Proactive funding scheme. ODYCCEUS brings together scholars
in the natural sciences (physicists, computer scientists,
mathematicians) and the social sciences and humanities (sociologists,
geographers, media scholars) to develop new methods and tools for the
study of cultural conflict.
The papers in this collection serve
two purposes. First, they showcase the application of computational
tools to the study of cultural conflicts. These tools have been
developed by the contributors. Several of the tools are incorporated
into the Penelope platform, which has been purposefully designed to
facilitate the computational analysis of cultural conflicts. Second,
they provide a substantive contribution to the understanding of
different cultural conflicts within Europe, including the migration
crisis, political polarization, the rise of populism and extremism, and
anti-Semitism.
Fronties in Big Data Research Topic "The Computational Analysis of Cultural Conflicts"
