Co-edited by Dr Olga Goriunova

We are very pleased to announce that issue four of Computational Culture is now online.

Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures.

http://www.computationalculture.net/

Articles

Paul Dourish, NoSQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology

Irina Kaldrack and Theo Röhle, Divide and Share: Taxonomies, Orders and Masses in Facebook’s Open Graph

Benjamin Grosser, What Do Metrics Want? How Quantification Prescribes Social Interaction on Facebook

Dennis Tenen and Maxwell Foxman, Book Piracy as Peer Preservation

Alex Taylor, Jasmin Fisher, Byron Cook, Samin Ishtiaq, Modelling Biology – working through (in-)stabilities and frictions

Comments

Geert Lovink, Reflections on the MP3 Format: Interview with Jonathan Sterne

Mark Marino, Field Report for Critical Code Studies 2014

Reviews

Michael Stevenson, A Review of Reverse Engineering Social Media

Ana Gross, How Crucial is Rawness? A review of “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron by Lisa Gitelman (Ed.)

Annet Dekker, Re-collecting the Museum, a review of Re-collection. Art, New Media, and Social Memory

Eleni Ikoniadou, Algorithmic Thought: a review of Contagious Architecture by Luciana Parisi

http://www.computationalculture.net/