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Streetonomics: Quantifying Culture Using Street Names
arXiv - CS - Computers and Society Pub Date : 2021-06-08 , DOI: arxiv-2106.04675
Melanie Bancilhon, Marios Constantinides, Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia

Quantifying a society's value system is important because it suggests what people deeply care about -- it reflects who they actually are and, more importantly, who they will like to be. This cultural quantification has been typically done by studying literary production. However, a society's value system might well be implicitly quantified based on the decisions that people took in the past and that were mediated by what they care about. It turns out that one class of these decisions is visible in ordinary settings: it is visible in street names. We studied the names of 4,932 honorific streets in the cities of Paris, Vienna, London and New York. We chose these four cities because they were important centers of cultural influence for the Western world in the 20th century. We found that street names greatly reflect the extent to which a society is gender biased, which professions are considered elite ones, and the extent to which a city is influenced by the rest of the world. This way of quantifying a society's value system promises to inform new methodologies in Digital Humanities; makes it possible for municipalities to reflect on their past to inform their future; and informs the design of everyday's educational tools that promote historical awareness in a playful way.

中文翻译:

Streetonomics:使用街道名称量化文化

量化一个社会的价值体系很重要,因为它表明人们深切关心的是什么——它反映了他们的真实身份,更重要的是,他们想成为什么样的人。这种文化量化通常是通过研究文学作品来完成的。然而,一个社会的价值体系很可能会根据人们过去所做的决定进行隐式量化,这些决定以他们关心的事情为中介。事实证明,这些决定中的一类在普通环境中是可见的:它在街道名称中可见。我们研究了巴黎、维也纳、伦敦和纽约等城市的 4,932 条敬语街道的名称。我们选择这四个城市是因为它们是 20 世纪西方世界重要的文化影响中心。我们发现街道名称极大地反映了社会性别偏见的程度,哪些职业被认为是精英职业,以及一个城市受世界其他地区影响的程度。这种量化社会价值体系的方式有望为数字人文领域的新方法提供信息;使市政当局能够反思他们的过去以告知他们的未来;并为日常教育工具的设计提供信息,以有趣的方式提高历史意识。
更新日期:2021-06-10
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