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Collective creativity in hybrid societies
Mason Youngblood, Katie Mudd, Manuel Anglada-Tort +4
Generative AI is changing how cultural artifacts are created and circulated, and with it our understanding of creativity itself. Researchers disagree about whether these tools enri…
Dynamics of collective creativity in AI art competitions
Mason Youngblood, Jeff Nusz, Joel Simon
Creativity is a fundamental aspect of how culture evolves, yet the mechanisms by which groups produce novelty are notoriously difficult to infer from the historical record. Iterate…
chatter: a Python library for applying information theory and AI/ML models to animal communication
Mason Youngblood
The study of animal communication often involves categorizing units into types (e.g. syllables in songbirds, or notes in humpback whales). While this approach is useful in many cas…
Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975-1999)
Mason Youngblood, Karim Baraghith, Patrick E. Savage
Cultural phylogenies, or "trees" of culture, are typically built using methods from biology that use similarities and differences in artifacts to infer the historical relationships…
Extremist ideology as a complex contagion: the spread of far-right radicalization in the United States between 2005-2017
Mason Youngblood
Increasing levels of far-right extremist violence have generated public concern about the spread of radicalization in the United States. Previous research suggests that radicalized…
A Raspberry Pi-based, RFID-equipped birdfeeder for the remote monitoring of wild bird populations
Mason Youngblood
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an increasingly popular wireless technology that allows researchers to monitor wild bird populations from fixed locations in the field. Our…
Conformity bias in the cultural transmission of music sampling traditions
Mason Youngblood
One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level processes scale up to generate population-level patterns. Previous studies in music have…
Cultural transmission modes of music sampling traditions remain stable despite delocalization in the digital age
Mason Youngblood
Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers that has played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres. Artists preferentially sample…