通过欧洲歌唱大赛衡量文化动态
Measuring Cultural Dynamics Through the Eurovision Song Contest
摘要：
通过调查测量文化及其动态具有重要的局限性，但新兴的计算社会科学领域使我们能够通过分析大规模数据集来克服这些局限性。在这篇文章中，我们研究的文化动力学通过投票在欧洲歌唱大赛，这是决定了一个基于人群的计划，观众通过手机短信投票。考虑到文化的不对称性和不完善的看法，我们衡量欧洲国家之间的文化关系的文化亲和力。我们提出了一个衡量欧洲电视网竞赛参与者投票偏差的指标--我们验证了这个指标如何代表文化亲和力，通过其与已知的文化距离的关系，并通过数值分析有偏见的欧洲电视网比赛。我们将此指标应用于1975年至2012年的欧洲电视网比赛的历史数据集，发现了比单独使用投票更强的模块化新模式。此外，我们定义了一个衡量两极分化的指标，当应用于经验数据时，显示2010年和2011年欧盟国家内部的两极分化急剧增加。我们实证验证这种两极分化和经济指标之间的关系，在欧盟，显示政治决策如何影响经济和公民的方式与其他欧盟成员国的文化。
英文摘要：
Measuring culture and its dynamics through surveys has important limitations, but the emerging field of computational social science allows us to overcome them by analyzing large-scale datasets. In this article, we study cultural dynamics through the votes in the Eurovision song contest, which are decided by a crowd-based scheme in which viewers vote through mobile phone messages. Taking into account asymmetries and imperfect perception of culture, we measure cultural relations among European countries in terms of cultural affinity. We propose the Friend-or-Foe coefficient, a metric to measure voting biases among participants of a Eurovision contest. We validate how this metric represents cultural affinity through its relation with known cultural distances, and through numerical analysis of biased Eurovision contests. We apply this metric to the historical set of Eurovision contests from 1975 to 2012, finding new patterns of stronger modularity than using votes alone. Furthermore, we define a measure of polarization that, when applied to empirical data, shows a sharp increase within EU countries during 2010 and 2011. We empirically validate the relation between this polarization and economic indicators in the EU, showing how political decisions influence both the economy and the way citizens relate to the culture of other EU members.
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