Dear all,
FYI: the Digital Humanities Institute at Sheffield is launching two new MA degree programs in September 2021 in digital culture and cultural data:
1. MA in Cultural Data Management and Communication
2. MA in Digital Culture and Communication
More information can be found here, including application details:
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/study/
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Announcement:
Dear colleagues, students, professionals
#dariahTeach<https://teach.dariah.eu/> and the IGNITE<https://ignite.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/> project are delighted to announce its Autumn School (26 October - 4 December) featuring five courses (over 2-3 weeks) and workshops (a day or half day).
All the events are online except for the Co-Design Workshop at Cube Design. Courses cover topics from Design Thinking to Digital Narratives, from Material Culture in 3D to Phygital Heritage. Workshops focus on how to conduct a focus group or design sprint, sustainable fashion, and designing for the future.
Events are designed for a broad range of participants, from early stage researchers, to educators in the arts, humanities, and heritage, as well as professionals in the creative and cultural industries.
Details about the full suite of offerings can be found here<https://ignite.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/autumn-school-2020/>.
Interested in joining? Register your interest here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2ZT1t8aRsLo0R622FYQgYN61HZX5C5Ag…> by 16 October 23:59 CET. You can sign up for up to two events. Space is limited for each event.
For questions and enquiries, contact us via our contact form<https://ignite.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/contact-form/>
With best wishes
The #dariahTeach and IGNITE teams
Dear all (apologies for cross-postings),
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If you are, please contribute to our research. We study the concept of similarity on Twitter and how similarity depends on the user profile, activity, and the structure of one's social networks. This study is multidisciplinary between computer science and the humanities.
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It only takes a few minutes! Your responses will be kept confidential. Each record will be safely stored using an anonymous identifier to ensure that no personal details are revealed or used in the analysis.
It is noteworthy that there are no correct answers in this survey, as we are only collecting data anonymously for fundamental research purposes.
If you have questions, we're happy to answer them.
With best wishes,
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Is speculative imagination a myth? A critical theory take on the power of anticipatory logics to limit thinking differently about digital tech futures
When: 5 November 2020, 9.00–11.00 a.m.
Where: Lnu-se.zoom.us/j/65185632938
Abstract
Why do we speculate about the future endlessly but without really imagining things very differently? In this talk, Professor Annette Markham talks about the power of anticipatory logics on our (in)ability to think outside the box about digital futures. While still hopeful about the potential and ethic of speculative thinking, Annette’s talk focuses on how everyday conversations about digital tech can close off alternatives and foster a sense of inevitability. To challenge this process of ‘discursive closure,’ Annette gives examples from research practices developed as part of the Museum of Random Memory, a three year arts-based intervention where a team of researchers and activists sought to build provocations that would enable participants to open up alternative thinking.
Bio
Annette Markham is a Professor of media and communication in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). internationally recognized for developing epistemological frameworks for rethinking ethics and research methods for digitally-saturated social contexts. A long-time member of the internet research community, Annette conducts critical sociological and ethnographic studies of how identity, relationships, and cultural formations are constructed in and influenced by digitally saturated socio-technical contexts. Her ethnographic studies of identity practices and cultural formations through digital media are well represented in her pioneering book Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space (1998, Alta Mira). Her more recent research focuses on critical approaches to algorithms and datafication, speculative methods for building better ethical futures, data literacy and critical pedagogy, and rhetorical analysis of human-machine communication through automated, algorithmic systems. She is founder and director of the Museum of Random Memory arts-based digital literacy initiative, the annual Skagen Institute for developing creative and transgressive methods, and the international Future Making Research Consortium. Annette is also a Professor MSO (on leave) in the Department of Information Studies and Digital Design at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
Koraljka Golub
Professor
Head of the iInstitute
Digital Humanities Initiative Co-Leader
Linnaeus University
http://lnu.se/personal/koraljka.golub
