Editors’ Choice: Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture
Digital Humanities Now 2021-01-27
In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts and Culture (GA&C), with an objective to make culture more accessible. The platform (and the content on its app) has dramatically grown since then, and currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution images of artworks from approximately 2,500 museums and galleries in almost every country featured in the UN member list.