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4 August 2008

Computing Culture: National Communication Logs

Over 3 billion people carry mobile telephones, which automatically capture behavioral data and store it in service provider databases around the world. The different types of captured data can provide insight into different cultures. I have an upcoming article in IEEE Intelligent Systems describing how examples from a variety of societies and hundreds of millions of individuals illustrate how phones can serve as a cultural lens, improving our understanding of social networks, outlier events, and a culture’s pace of life. It is a bit of an overview piece describing mostly future work, but hopefully it provides a good starting point for discussion.

Nathan Eagle. Behavioral Inference Across Cultures: Using Telephones as a
Cultural Lens
, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, Vol 23 (4), pp. 60-62. PDF

Posted by Nathan Eagle at August 4, 2008 10:05 AM