1832 Journal of Cultural Analytics 2371-4549 Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University Website: Journal of Cultural Analytics 33086 10.22148/001c.33086 Article Cultures of E/valuation on the Social Web. A very short introduction to the special issue Herrmann Berenike 1 Bubenhofer Noah 2 Knuchel Daniel 2 Rebora Simone 3 Messerli Thomas 4 University of Bielefeld University of Zurich https://ror.org/02crff812 University of Verona https://ror.org/039bp8j42 University of Basel https://ror.org/02s6k3f65 26 2 2022 2022 7 2 Cultures of E/valuation on the Social Web 1 3 1 1 2022 1 2 2022 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The aim of the special issue is to present theory-conscious studies of selected facets of digital cultures of evaluation across a broad range of discourses on the social web. At the same time, bringing together papers from linguistics, literary studies, and digital humanities, it is our aim to take stock of common denominators, but also differences, in method and theory, instilling discussion for a cross-disciplinary data-driven and data-intensive inquiry of valuation and evaluation within “data humanities”. The types of discourse covered will include online lay book reviews on platforms such as Goodreads and LovelyBooks, as well as reviews of non-literary “products“ such as cooking recipes, restaurant reviews, and concerts.

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