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Digital Humanities 2015

Digital Sociology

Realist Social Theory

Digital Social Ontology

ontology

#digitalhumanities

physical virtual

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Graham Scambler (UCL) talks about Action Sociology

Graham Scambler on Action Sociology

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Graham Scambler (UCL) talks about Realism, Health Inequalities and the Purpose of Sociological Inquiry

Graham Scambler on Realism, Health Inequalities and the Purpose of Sociological Inquiry

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Sue Clegg (Leeds Met) talks about Realism as Theoretical Resource 

Sue Clegg on Realism as Theoretical Resource

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Mark Creswell (Durham) talks about Pedagogy, Privilege and Resistance 

Mark Cresswell on the Pedagogy of the Privileged

In this talk from BSA Realism event on September 6th Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough)  talks about Realism, ANT and the Post-Human

Dave Elder-Vass on Actor Network Theory

CUNY Digital Humanities Guest Lectures: Lev Manovich

A conversation about the impact of the internet on contemporary visual culture with some of London’s leading young voices in digital media and post-internet art.

The panel comprised Paul Hobson (Contemporary Art Society Director), Sarah Page (Contemporary Art Society Membership Programmes Manager), Attilia Fattori Franchini, a bright and rising curator working with digital media and co-director of online gallery, bubblebyte.org, and acclaimed artist and member of the collective, LuckyPDF, Yuri Pattison.

It is not enough to imagine post-internet art as being only computer or internet based, but rather it can be identified as any art that is influenced by the internet and digital media. Informed by questions around the collapse of the traditional physical exhibition space, the reproducibility of the digital image, decentralised authorship, and further into ideas around the development of attention as currency. Post-internet art is a subject of our contemporary moment and we delighted to invite your views, questions and thoughts on it in an evening of discussion and debate.

Image: Yuri Pattison, Focal Plane (detail), image courtesy the artist, 2013.

Talk - Conversations on Contemporary Art: Post-Internet Art

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Melissa Terras
A Decade in Digital Humanities

In 2004, Blackwell published their Companion to Digital Humanities, lending a new name to the use of computing in the arts, humanities and heritage sectors: the term 'Digital Humanities' has been much used, and much criticized, since.
Pixellated Image of Medieval Stained Glass

In this lecture, Professor Terras looks back at the decade she has spent at UCL working in the area of applying computing to different areas of humanistic research, ranging from Jeremy Bentham’s manuscripts, to Roman documents from Hadrian’s Wall, to 3D scanning of museum collections, to an app for text analysis. A decade on from the coining of the term 'Digital Humanities', what do we now understand about the potential and issues for the application of computing in the arts and humanities? 

Professor Terras is Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities in UCL's Department of Information Studies. With a background in Classical Art History, English Literature, Computing Science (MA, MSc, University of Glasgow), and Engineering (DPhil, University of Oxford) her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts and humanities that would otherwise be impossible. You can generally find her on Twitter @melissaterras.

A Decade in Digital Humanities - Professor Melissa Terras (UCL DIS)

An introduction to social ontology given by Margaret Archer at a Centre for Social Ontology event in June 2014

What is social ontology? An introduction in 13 minutes by Margaret Archer

Margaret Archer’s recent contributions to our understanding of reflexivity in late capitalist society provide useful resources for theorizing across the substantive domains of sociology. Using illustrations from my own work on the sociology health inequalities in general, and my ideal type of the ‘vulnerable fractured reflexive’ in particular, I examine some of the pros and cons of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the structuring of agency. I conclude with a skeletal research programme involving interdisciplinary collaboration.

Reflexivity and an interdisciplinary approach to the ‘structuring of agency

A snippet of Deb Verhoeven's introduction to Genevieve Bell in which she discusses the "parade of patriarchs" at #DH2015 (the annual Digital Humanities conference). Missing the (funnier) opening section. 

Digital Humanities 2015 Deb Verhoeven

Nick Couldry at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Refiguring the Social:  Remembering Elias

Alistair Mutch at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

The Organizational Implications  of Digital Data

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: FROM SPECULATIVE TO SKEPTICAL
Johanna Drucker

9 October 2015
Media History Research Centre
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec 

After two decades of growing investment in tools, platforms, projects, pedagogy, and promotional campaigns, the challenge to Digital Humanities as a field is whether or not any of this activity has had an intellectual impact on any specific field or discipline.

Johanna Drucker will take us through the methodological foundations of Digital Humanities, its development, and accomplishments, but will also pose a series of questions about what the future should or might look like, and whether there is an intellectual future for this field.

http://www.mediahistoryresearch.com/digital-humanities-from-speculative-to-skeptical/

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Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She was the co-founder of the Speculative Computing Lab, with Jerome McGann, at the University of Virginia, and has published widely on topics related to digitalscholarship, pedagogy, and criticism, including SpecLab (Chicago, 2008) the jointly authored Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick. Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp (MIT, 2013).



Digital Humanities: From Speculative to Skeptical

A lecture given by Neil Selwyn at Cardiff University on 28th October 2015.

Towards a Digital Sociology of Education

Emma Uprichard at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Big Data, Complexity and Time

Susan Halford at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

The Challenge of Digital Ontology

Jochen Runde at the CSO Digital Social Ontology Symposium

Non-materiality and the Ontology of Digital Objects

What is a (hard) problem? Can we know which problems do not have solutions? Is scheduling flights a hard problem? Is assembling cars an easy problem? Theoretically, are there more problems (uncountable) than solutions (countably many)? Are algorithms well defined? Are they a finite description for infinitely many possible inputs & processes? What is not an algorithm? Can processes be algorithmic and not computational? Does it matter how algorithms are embodied? Is every algorithm a Turing Machine? Is there a difference between equations and algorithms? Can algorithms be approximate? Where do heuristics come from? Are comparisons the easiest measurement? Do physical symbols always underlie any computation? Are the best algorithms exponential? Is there infinite richness of algorithms, & are computers infinitely reconfigurable machines? How is the real world abstracted (& discretized)? Do problems need analog computing, since (real life) variables are usually (?) continuous and not discrete? Is a recipe, then, an algorithm? Is the brain a computer? Is the world analog or digital? Do algorithms have an ontology? Are algorithms abstractions? Are they here to stay? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from logic & theoretical computer science (Prof. Anuj Dawar, Cambridge University, Cambridge), & operations research & industrial engineering (Prof. Ashok K. Mittal, ex-IIT Kanpur, New Delhi). Listen in....

#TMOA (The Metaness Of Algorithms) --- SynTalk

In this podcast recorded for the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Deborah Lupton talks about her current work on sociological crowd sourcing and citizen ethnography. You can find out more about Deborah's work at https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/

Deborah Lupton on Sociological Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Ethnography

What is the role of design in modeling digital humanities? Can we imagine new forms of argument and platforms that support interpretative work? So much of the computationally driven environment of digital work has been created by design/engineers that humanistic values and methods have not found their place in the tools and formats that provide the platform for research, pedagogy, access, and use. The current challenge is to take advantage of the rich repositories and well-developed online resources and create innovative approaches to argument, curation, display, editing, and understanding that embody humanistic methods as well as humanities content. Designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes. Using some vivid examples and case studies, this talk outlines some of the opportunities for exciting work ahead.

Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King’s College, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work, Digital_Humanities, with Jeffrey Schapp, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press.

Johanna Drucker, "Designing Digital Humanities"

John Searle at the University of Cologne
American Philosopher accepts Albertus Magnus Professorship 2013

John Searle is one of the most important philosophers of language of our time. As Albertus Magnus Professor, he will be holding lectures and a seminar on the themes of "Language and Social Ontology", "Mind and Brain" as well as "Perception and Intentionality" from 6th till 8th May, 2013 at the University of Cologne.

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Non-materiality and the Ontology of Digital Objects

Mark Carrigan