Presentation given during Panel 1 ("Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our Research and Academic Culture?") at "Research Conditions and Digital Humanities: What are the Prospects for the Next Generation? #dhiha5" (10–11 June 2013, Paris), an international colloquium organised by Mareike König (IHA), Georgios Chatzoudis (Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung), in cooperation with Pierre Mounier (Cleo).
Digital sustainability: how to move beyond the oxymoron
Can digital art be made to last in a sustainable way? It is no surprise that artists are keen to use and respond to new material in their practices. With every new invention, throughout the years, museum conservators tried to follow and adapted their working methods to the new challenges. Similarly, with the rise of digital artworks conservators try to think of solutions to preserve the collected artworks. While this works well in some cases, in many cases changes to the artwork happen as most hardware and software follow the design of planned-obsolescence. As a consequence endless migration and/or emulation projects are set up to prolong the working of digital art. It makes sense to use upgraded technology to keep an artwork going. Yet this enduring rat race becomes questionable when thinking about the environmental impact of digitals. In this presentation I want to discuss the oxymoron ‘digital sustainability’. By acknowledging this inherent contradiction, in my research I aim to critically inquire what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future. As a first step, I'll explore the potential of ‘networks of care’ to create, build and maintain digital cultural heritage in a sustainable way.
How metaphors matter an ethnography of blockchain based re descriptions of th...eraser Juan José Calderón
How metaphors matter an ethnography of blockchain based re descriptions of the world.
Sandra Faustino
Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, SOCIUS/CSG, Lisboa, Portugal
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the role of metaphors in the production of redescriptions of the world within the framework of technological design
processes. Drawing on a collaborative ethnography with the Economic
Space Agency (ECSA), a start-up developing post-blockchain technology,
this paper illustrates how metaphors mimic the toponymy of
decentralized material infrastructures, while simultaneously pushing
forward ‘posthuman’ values that are expected to become fixated
through software. Through an analysis of a ‘collection’ of metaphors
produced by ECSA, this paper sheds light on the work performed by
specific vocabularies, within technological communities, in shaping a symbiotic relationship between futuristic politics and material culture.
"Supporting different social structures in city-wide collaborative learning"
Presentation of the paper submitted at IADIS Mobile Learning conference 2009 that was held in Barcelona Spain, 26-28 February 2009
Digital sustainability: how to move beyond the oxymoron
Can digital art be made to last in a sustainable way? It is no surprise that artists are keen to use and respond to new material in their practices. With every new invention, throughout the years, museum conservators tried to follow and adapted their working methods to the new challenges. Similarly, with the rise of digital artworks conservators try to think of solutions to preserve the collected artworks. While this works well in some cases, in many cases changes to the artwork happen as most hardware and software follow the design of planned-obsolescence. As a consequence endless migration and/or emulation projects are set up to prolong the working of digital art. It makes sense to use upgraded technology to keep an artwork going. Yet this enduring rat race becomes questionable when thinking about the environmental impact of digitals. In this presentation I want to discuss the oxymoron ‘digital sustainability’. By acknowledging this inherent contradiction, in my research I aim to critically inquire what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future. As a first step, I'll explore the potential of ‘networks of care’ to create, build and maintain digital cultural heritage in a sustainable way.
How metaphors matter an ethnography of blockchain based re descriptions of th...eraser Juan José Calderón
How metaphors matter an ethnography of blockchain based re descriptions of the world.
Sandra Faustino
Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, SOCIUS/CSG, Lisboa, Portugal
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the role of metaphors in the production of redescriptions of the world within the framework of technological design
processes. Drawing on a collaborative ethnography with the Economic
Space Agency (ECSA), a start-up developing post-blockchain technology,
this paper illustrates how metaphors mimic the toponymy of
decentralized material infrastructures, while simultaneously pushing
forward ‘posthuman’ values that are expected to become fixated
through software. Through an analysis of a ‘collection’ of metaphors
produced by ECSA, this paper sheds light on the work performed by
specific vocabularies, within technological communities, in shaping a symbiotic relationship between futuristic politics and material culture.
"Supporting different social structures in city-wide collaborative learning"
Presentation of the paper submitted at IADIS Mobile Learning conference 2009 that was held in Barcelona Spain, 26-28 February 2009
Presentation at the annual conference of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association (HELTASA) in Bloemfontein, South Africa, 20 November, 2014
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Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Presentation at the annual conference of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association (HELTASA) in Bloemfontein, South Africa, 20 November, 2014
Presentation given at the SRHE (Society for Research into Higher Education) conference, December 2015, Newport, South Wales. How has digital literacy been defined in different ways in the last 40 years? Is it a way of confirming authority, or redistributing it?
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Lecture given on Thursday 6th May to first years on History module "Creating and Consuming History", encouraging them to think about the possibilities of digitisation in museums (the heritage sector/historical research), and the benefits and otherwise of some of the tools currently available.
Globalization and technology change the work place. Place making is the dynamic motor of innovation, even in the midst of Internet and other advanced technology.
Here are my slides (slightly modified) from my presentation at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference at Michigan State University on October 3, 2011.
Innovations in mobile technology shape how mobile workers share knowledge and collaborate on the go. We introduce mobile communities of practice (MCOPs) as a lens for under- standing how these workers self-organize, and present three MCOP case studies. Working from contextual ambidexterity, we develop a typology of bureaucratic, anarchic, idiosyncratic and adhocratic MCOPs. We discuss how variations in the degree of organizational alignment and individual discretion shape the extent to which these types explore and exploit mobile work practices and approach organizational ambidexterity. This article concludes with important strategic implications for managing mobile work and practical considerations for identifying, creating, and supporting MCOPs.
Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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This workshop asks how we can use methods drawn from design, art, and craft, informed by
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invisible ideas and relationships. There is an emerging set of research practices using tangible or
material models, or constructive making and embodying to visualize how people think about concepts
ranging from invisible systems and infrastructures to mental models, personal data which would
otherwise be invisible, or even the phenomenological dimensions of experiences themselves. Examples
include explorations of the design of public services, healthcare processes, mental health experiences,
career paths, crafters’ movements, and experiences of social networks (Aguirre Ulloa and Paulsen,
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📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
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Clipboard AI
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Presentation ciula-paris2013
1. Research Conditions
and DIGITAL HUMANITIES
What are the prospects for the
Next Generation?
Panel 1
Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Dr Arianna Ciula
DHIP IHA
11 June 2013
2. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in
our Research and Academic Culture?
Academic culture
“Digital Humanities should not be
considered to only be an academic
phenomenon. I think that a move
towards the digital is present in
academia, publishing, marketing,
business, and much much more. It is
likely to end up being the overall
presence in how people do their jobs,
no matter what their job is, in the next
few years.” (Fraser 2013)
3. Humanities united at war
• Fragmentation of disciplines → regain combination ≠
homogenisation
“disruptive political force that has the potential to reshape
fundamental aspects of academic practice” (Gold 2012)
To question the “scholarly infrastructure” (Svensson 2012) as a whole and
To channel a common “transformative sentiment” (Svensson 2012)
“digital humanities as
representing or manifesting
the humanities” and as
“means to discuss the future
of the humanities at large”
(Svensson 2012) e.g.
http://4humanities.org/
4. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Changes
Are these changes “facelifts” or are they changing the humanities?
Focus on social value:
“Is digital humanities is [sic] a "distinctly social enterprise"? I wonder if as the
locus of research moves from the mind of the researcher into the world where
others can participate directly, in real time, in its development, collaboration
becomes not simply possible but more desirable -- not just because the talents
of others are needed but because it is somehow an inherently social activity?”
(McCarty 2013)
Keep calm... and act (laboratores as per Burghart 2013 – but not
slaves!)
5. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Digital publishing and e-Science/e-Scholarship
Towards a “A de-constructionist scholarly information continuum”
(Gradmann and Meister 2008)
6. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Digital publishing and e-Science/e-Scholarship
7. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Digital publishing and e-Science/e-Scholarship
Publication cultures in SSH
“complex document models
and publishing formats heavily
intertwined with core research
operations” - text as “complex,
semiological digital object”
(process and product)
text turned into 'heuristic
machine' through the digital
e.g. dynamic edition (Buzzetti
and Rebhein 2008)
8. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Digital publishing and e-Science/e-Scholarship
• Call for researchers to steer the digital realm to better fit their publication
cultures and innovate their scholarship:
“In a vision that ultimately renders obsolete Snow’s simplistic dichotomy of the
‘two cultures’ one could conclude that for digital publishing to truly work
both in the STM and SSH communities we need a broader vision of ‘E-
Science’ and ‘E-Scholarship’ alike which then includes digital publishing
as one of its constituents.” (Gradmann and Meister 2008)
Digital repositories and Open Access policy → call for institutional
actors to re-think their roles and experiment with new models (Romary
2013)
Global AND Public Humanities
9. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
From publishing to research
“texts (in the broad sense of linguistic, visual,
acoustic, filmic works) → not static objects but
encoded provocations for reading.” (Drucker
2012)
“The challenge is to shift humanistic study from attention to the effects of
technology (from readings of social media, games, narrative, personae, digital
texts, images, environments), to a humanistically informed theory of the
making of technology (a humanistic computing at the level of design,
modeling of information architecture, data types, interface, and protocols).”
(Drucker 2012)
10. Collaboration and Interdisciplinary aspect
“Trading zones do not necessarily stop at departments or schools. Importantly, such
zones or meeting places could, and probably should, extend outside the humanities
proper to other parts of the university and, if appropriate and mutually beneficial, to
industry, cultural institutions and the art world. […] An open meeting place and
energetic trading zone does not necessarily make a sharp distinction between
research, education and other activities.” (Svensson 2012)
“The great project of humanities computing is the
development of a hermeneutic—a concept and practice of
interpretation—parallel to that of the dominant, postwar,
theory-driven humanities: a way of performing cultural and
aesthetic criticism less through solitary points of view
expressed in language, and more in team-based acts of
building.” (Nowviskie 2012a)
“Digital scholarship happens within complex networks of
human production. […] meaningful human partnerships”
(Nowviskie 2012b)
Collaborative nature of digital humanities work and openness
11. Collaboration and Interdisciplinary aspect
Interdisciplinary aspect as bridge across scientific cultures
Historical and comparative perspective
Early modern Europe: “the humanities not only preceded the sciences but also
shaped them to a very large extent via the formal and empirical study of
music, art, language and texts” (Bod et al. 2010, 11-12)
19th
century reform of the universities and formation of modern
scientific disciplines → sealed faith of the ‘humanist
mathematics’, break with the classics (Bod et al. 2012, 12)
Discipline formation as a form of hybridization rather than
specialization (Bod et al. 2012)
Institutional perspective
Tensions with established disciplines and scientific
culture of the humanities (see also Svensson 2012)
12. Learn to collaborate
“Mutual respect entails being interested in other people’s research and practice,
acknowledging different epistemic traditions, engaging in dialogue and collaborative work
regardless of someone’s position in the university hierarchy or other structures, but also
respecting more "monastic" work processes […] and a temporary reluctance to be highly
dialogic.” (Svensson 2012)
and so if we want young people to better understand and appreciate the way their world
actually operates, we need to teach them about collaboration and to collaborate in their
schoolwork. And because digital humanities is more self-conscious than the more
established disciplines where this kind of collaboration is commonplace, it leads to more
purposeful engagement with the subject.” (Meeks 2013b)
(Higher) Education
“Collaboration is important from both a
professional perspective and a social
perspective. The world that your students are
going to go out into is not one where they will
work alone at one station, and punch a time
clock and go home, but one where they are
constantly in touch with everyone they are
working with. More importantly, their world
outside their work is the product of such
collaboration.[...] Steve Jobs didn’t go into his
workshop and carve out an iPhone by himself,
13. Know-how attributes vs. Human project
“We [...] cannot make knowing or not knowing Mark Up the one thing
everyone not in the field knows about us or we will destroy our field by
provincializing it ― and by stigmatizing our students out of the one area
where there are jobs right now. […] An ideal job candidate burns with the
passion of making a field anew. Vision, expansiveness, imagination,
ideas, and brilliance are the requirements. Knowing or not knowing
HTML is way down the list of attributes that make colleagues know that
you are the one they need for a better and brighter future.” (Davidson
2011)
(Higher) Education
Essential 'Apprenticeship' → 'human project'
(McCarty 2013)
14. “Information literacy in a variety of now commonplace
representations of data” (Meeks 2013b)
Understanding the modern world
“Digital humanities, along with providing a more sophisticated understanding
of humanities phenomena, provides a more sophisticated understanding of
a modern world that runs on the very same tools and techniques outlined
above”
Critique (ethical and social ramifications)
“By bringing the digital into the humanities, we provide a space to question
the effect of these pervasive techniques and tools on culture and society.
Digital humanities [...] is extremely self-conscious and self-critical, it lingers
on definitions and problems of its scope and place, and it especially turns a
jaundiced eye to technological optimism of all sorts, even as it attempts to
integrate new technologies into the asking of very old questions.”
(Higher) Education
15. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Early career and junior researchers as agents of change
Avoid prescribed roles (Svensson 2012)
Hybrid role (legacy of humanities computing)
“The digital humanities specialist is a participatory mediator who must be able to
draw on deep awareness and experience of the intersecting intellectual space
where the modelling occurs.” (McCarty and Short 2012)
Investors
“young researchers with an investment in the digital
humanities who are anchored in a traditional disciplinary
and scholarly context” (Svensson 2012)
16. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Recognition mechanisms? Sustainability infrastructures?
See also Moulin et al. 2011
“evaluation of humanities scholars
as individuals” → “it feels
increasingly alien to the
collaborative and publicly iterative
modes in which we and our
colleagues at other digital centers
now operate to produce and
disseminate knowledge”
(Nowviskie 2012a)
'fiction' of “final outputs” (Nowviskie
2012b)
(Meeks 2013a)
17. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Recognition mechanisms? Sustainability infrastructures?
(Meeks 2013a)
“humanities computing has a long
history of tension in terms of
establishing academic job opportunities
and career paths, which is partly
related to an often institutionally
peripheral position, a different
professional structure than most
disciplines (including heaver reliance
on skills and practices not typical of
traditional humanities scholarship) and
no clear way to a tenure track or
equivalent position nor a highly
qualified expert role.” (Svensson 2012)
18. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Recognition mechanisms? Sustainability infrastructures?
(Meeks 2013a)
19. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Scholarly changes
Inherent to disciplines
“Connecting to the heart of the disciplines involves relating to the core
challenges and needs of those disciplines. This does not imply a
pronounced service function [...] or aligning with disciplinary agendas but
rather to be engaged in an intellectual dialogue that sparks core interest
among scholars from those disciplines.” (Svensson 2012)
e.g. Palaeography
2004: the term 'Digital palaeography' didn't even exist!
2010: ERC Starting Grant http://digipal.eu/
2011: ESF Exploratory Workshop
Use of digital tools/resources: from defensive approach (2001 and before)
to common (unquestioned?) practice (2013) → critical use, engaged
modelling and discussion of limitations
From auxiliary discipline to integral perspective in connection with philology,
linguistics and cognitive sciences?
Which work is the most known? (production/reception)
20. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Scholarly changes
Illegible?
“Products of digital work in the humanities are evident all around us, but the
arguments that they instantiate remain deceptively tacit to those who have not
learned to appreciate their sites of discourse, their languages and protocols.
Humanities-computing arguments are made collectively and tested iteratively.
The field advances through craft and construction: the fashioning and
refashioning of digital architectures and artifacts. It is little wonder that
bibliographers, archivists and textual critics, and archaeologists and other
specialists in material culture were the first to grasp the implications of
digital technology for humanities scholarship. Methodological, embodied, and
quiet knowledge transfer lies at the heart of our work, which can remain
frustratingly illegible to scholars whose experience rests more in verbal
exchange.” (Nowviskie 2012a)
21. Which Changes are Currently Taking Place in our
Research and Academic Culture?
Scholarly changes
Agenda and (human) Infrastructure
•
“Despite all the focus on cyberinfrastructure and scholarly workflows,
we’re fashioning ever closer, more intimate and personalized systems of
production.” (Nowviskie 2012b)
•
Contextualise an infrastructure within an agenda against 'disciplinary
servitude': “many of the scholars […], not paid to think and act like
scholars, have lost sight of that which infrastructure is for” (McCarty 2012)
•
“There is a need for iterative and integrated processes, which influences
and, to some extent, shapes both the research and the technological
development. Such a process must allow for some risk taking and
experimentation (we do not always know what specific technologies are
good for, if anything), and must be adaptive (the research challenges may
change as a result of availability or development of certain methods and
technologies) and critically engaged.” (Svensson 2012)
22. References (or 'networked spaces')
“Ces nouvelles plateformes de discussions en ligne pourraient former un nouveau centre de débats entre
scientifiques, en complétant – sans les remplacer – les débats par articles et revues interposés ; mais
également de contacts entre professeurs, étudiants, érudits.” (Dubois 2013)
Bod, Rens, J. Maat, and T. Weststeijn, eds. The Making of the Humanities. Vol. I: The Humanities in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam University Press. 2010. Print and
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