This post is pretty long--it covers five people giving 10 minute presentations (there has been some talk that 10 minutes is WAY long for a lightning talk), but all the presenters were great, so I'm including them all. Bold indicates a new presenter.
Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Culture
Christopher P Long @cplong
Penn State—surprised an Associate Dean for undergrads at Penn State has time to be here at this particular point in their controversy
- Revolution in technology of literacy
- Culture of print scholarship determined the technology through which produced
- A culture that contains, binds, controls, authorizes those with authority over it, certifies expertise through mature processes of peer review
- Digital scholarship—sharing, remixing, openness, collaboration, acceleration (of production and consumption) which may lead to fragmentation
- Also institutional transformation
- Univ. came of age during the 1000 of years most influenced by print culture
- A new univ culture would embody best of both
- i.e. Endures, reviews, certifies, shares, opens, collaborates
- Culture of print scholarship determined the technology through which produced
- how he cultivates this in teaching, research and admin work at Penn State
- pedagogical practice
- Philosophy 200
- No private writing—instead collaborative authorship of living document through course blog (all students as co-authors)
- Level of engagement is high
- Assessed writing through robust rubric (participate frequently, conceptually sophisticated posts, etc)
- Tinyurl.com.longrubric
- Then able to integrate his class with a BC prof when found both discussing Phaedrus
- Created podcast, called “Digital Dialogue”
- Would love more listeners—access through Facebook
- Philosophy 200
- Active blog space for his duties as part of dean’s office
- Space for students to write blog posts, too
- Oh good, he went there. “Last year the big issue on campus was drinking. This year there are new issues, as you may have heard.”
- The recent controversy has reminded him of importance of two-way dialogue
- pedagogical practice
Q about privacy of students—if future employer looks at it
A: he had very long conversation with them about publicness, but admits it is an issue he thinks about a lot
Q about assessment
A: he’d love to do some peer-assessment. Also an issue of how much people blog—prof can’t keep up with 30 people blogging constantly
Jen Boyle, Assoc Prof at Coastal Carolina University
Co-Director of their new program on new media
In development project, hypothe.is
Open, peer-reviewed site
i.e. why are comments relegated to bottom of page?
Flaws and inefficiencies of blog as interface medium, has provided new insights for peer-review journal, postmedieval
Print and online entity
Virtual collective of scholars: Babel working group (strong interest in postcritical humanism)
This was born on the web—people met through social networking tools
Crowd review process
Initiated within collaborative digital network
Did pre-solicit some essays
Published drafts, available for review from July – Sept.
There was not technical support for most basic interfaces that we are accustomed to now for open-review
Nature publishing group backstory is something she go into more
Ended up with word press blog, sponsored at Palgrave site
Would prefer a granular commenting system (a la Shakespeare project for Media Commons)
Then lack of granularity returned 24K common words
Comments took on tone of response essays (a collection in their own right)
For Boyle, this has made her think about how we think of a crowd?
What procedural rhetorics are available to discuss crowd annotation and review?
She returned to hypothes.is, but I missed most of this due to twitter troubles
Certainly would not use the same blog structure for another project (despite interesting findings, results)
Would use comment press if had another opportunity
Sophia Krzys Acord: “Isn’t that a Tool?” Interpreting and Championing Digital Scholarly Communication in the Humanities
6 yr research project funded by Mellon about how humanities scholars at elite research universities engage in digital projects
12 discreet case studies produced
http://scholarship.org/uc.cshe fsc (can’t get this link to work), so tried to find it here: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=379
Findings: Great diversity; Variables: age, institution, field, personality; Still strongly wedded to traditional publication avenues
Perceptions of what scholars do
Produce knowledge
Develop a closely reasoned argument
Prove/validate something
Perceptions of Digital genres
Acquisitions of skills
Data provide info.
Research technique
Services to scholarship
So how do digital humanist navigate these perceptions—negotiate tenure process?
Relate work to existing narratives in field (emphasize traditional question)
Publish rigorously peer-reviewed work (in relation to, parallel to)
Wait it out
Get a joint appointment
Find a more flexible institution
They asked, "what advice do you give to graduate students interested in digital forms of scholarship?"
Peer review—need explain how has been demonstrably peer reviewed
Build your case early on
Department chair, dean (talk to early and often)
Bring in colleagues at every project stage
Draw on scholarly society documents
Articulate how this is scholarship (i.e. relate to past work, etc)
Minimize barriers of time and technical expertise
So need counteract perception that digital technologies are just a tool
Argument is the intellectual took we use in order to prove that something is true, on the basis of evidence
Knowledge is the conclusion of the argument
Need look at lessons from the arts
Knowledge as verb, learn through interacting with art, through doing
They are looking for peer review for a piece https://nms-theme.ehumanities.nl/
On college level, is the most resistance to digital work, particularly when trying to train grad students. Several people agreeing. Associate profs tend to want everyone to do research just like they do.
“Authorial Ecologies: Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions”
Don’t know who is speaking, but he is very striking. :)
Got it—Michael Simeone (U of Illinois)
Trying to data mine images and think about authorship
Use authors as important units for analysis of cultural production
At same time, don’t want to trip into intentional fallacy
DiD-ARQ
Trying evaluate aspects of images couldn’t normally see, and then did that a lot
Designing algorithms was lots of fun
Says our diagrams of collaboration will look really funny in many years when we get better at this
They had combo of ooVoo, Medici, SVN, google docs
Example of cross-feritilisation algorithms
Cross deployment, using polygons to trace images
(keep in mind, they were looking at 19th century quilts and different mapping strategies in 17th/18th maps)
defined algorithms for one purpose, then cross deployed them in interesting ways
salad of Foucault, algorithms, Morretti, with a dash of Raymond Williams
Q about copyright.
A: legal infrastructure—non-consumptive use was their mainstay. If tried to publish these documents, they would run into trouble
So changes how they share what they’ve done, but hasn’t meddled with analysis
Took four months to negotiate MOU (memorandum of understanding)
Knows there is a kernel of authorship we can’t understand, so if can calculate surface area, then need understand the culture of that to get the meaning of research
So computer suggests things, but humanities scholar makes interventions when tool is not right to understand cultural production
Here’s a metaphor to describe their method provided by Jennifer Guiliano. Usual model of research. Walk down grocery aisle and select items to put in cart. New model: watch as cart moves down aisle and things jump into it based on algorithm. Then analyze what is in there and what remained on the shelf
Billy Andre
Anthropologist discussing neochoreometry
We can’t understand dance merely from viewing it. Enter neochoreometry
When he was in Turkey, all the dances looked the same to him
But a Turk could explain—this dance is from this region, etc.
So wanted to use pattern recognition to understand dance origins
Neochoreometry—promoted by Alan Lomax at NYU
Used human subjects to measure dance
What is take human element out and insert computer analysis
Video games, TV commercials use motion graphics, motion capture/tracking
Analyzed Turkish dancers
He chose four diff. tracking elements—hands and feet of outside dancers
They left behind a 3D trail which he could export to Excel and apply to motion graphics
Showed a video of Horon dance and then asked us, “what would a native see in that dance?”
Then shows video again but with motion graphics to illustrate the motion
And again in 3D
Quiz—wanted us to identify what the illustrated lines look like
blue line resembles ocean waves
Yellow resembles wriggling fish tail
Horon is a type of fish, so incorporated into their dance patterns
Neochoreometry therefore visualizes that the native sees
He used adobe after effects, btw
Andre is looking for a computer scientist and a dance expert to help with his work
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