scholarly journals Devious Design: Digital Infrastructure Challenges for Experimental Ethnography

Design Issues ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Poirier
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Reflective Design ◽  
Material Form

Diverse disciplinary communities approach design with diverse design logics design directives informed by critical theoretical commitments that are to be translated into material form. Recounting the design of a digital humanities platform, this paper shows how design logics of existing digital infrastructure can at times be out of sync with those of a design community seeking to leverage it. I argue that, in such situations, a designer should do more than simply “make do” with available infrastructure; the designer should instead design deviously – leveraging infrastructure in ways that undercut its logics. This suggests that reflective design involves reflecting, not only on design practice, but also on the logics of the infrastructure available to designers.

What’s Past is Prologue

2014 ◽  
pp. 244-265
Author(s):  
Shu-Jiun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
National Program ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Digital Objects

This chapter gives a comprehensive review of Taiwan’s Digital Archives Program, built on a national scale over the past 15 years. Currently more than 100 libraries, archives, museums, academic institutions, and government agencies are involved, and the program has created more than 5 million digital objects as well as more than 700 databases and Websites. This chapter investigates the goals and strategies of the program, probing into research and development, important achievements, values, lessons, and challenges in 6 aspects, including digital contents, digital technology, metadata interoperability, applications, industrialization development, and international cooperation. Although this national program was officially terminated at the end of 2012, the accumulation of digital contents, core technologies, and digital infrastructure over its lifespan makes it certain that one can look forward to its continuing impact upon open data, digital humanities, and sustainable digital archives.

scholarly journals A Experiment in Hybrid Open-Access Online Scholarly Publishing: Regenerations

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Brown ◽  
Linda Cameron ◽  
Mihaela Ilovan ◽  
Olga Ivanova ◽  
Ruth Knechtel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Hybrid Production ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Epochal Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
Dissemination Of Technology

Background: The history of reading, writing, and the dissemination of technology is one of epochal change, and each transition – indeed the history of the book – is marked by hybridity. In the mature years of print, publishers, librarians, and scholars had clearly defined and segregated roles. In the digital realm, the boundaries have broken down. Just now we have hybridity of form and of roles in the implementation of new reading environments.Analysis: This article provides: 1) an overview of e-reading environments; 2) a survey of the Dynamic Table of Contexts interface; and 3) a report on the hybrid production process of a particular online text, Regenerations.Conclusion and implications: Regenerations could only have emerged from a collaboration among a digital infrastructure project, research project, university press, and digital humanities tool suite.

Performing the Internet

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-227
Author(s):  
Nancy Mauro-Flude
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Experimental Models ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
New Methodologies

This chapter imagines alternative possibilities for digital humanities scholarship. Beyond technological pragmatism, the inquiry instead points to a richer engagement with digital infrastructure that can occur through the application of software literacy and expanded cultural practices derived from speculative traditions of thinking and feminist internet criticism. New methodologies are introduced, providing experimental models of engagement that allow for distinctive forms of performative and the development of dynamic and diverse knowledge.

Saving the teacher's soul: exorcising the terrors of performativity

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jude Chua Soo Meng
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Reflective Design ◽  
State Of Affairs

In this paper I frame the totalizing dominance of performativity in educational arenas in terms of its effects on professional thinking and attitudes. The problem is that the education professional's cognition ends up artificially obsessed with defined performance indicators and closed by default to the fluidity that should accompany reflective design practice. To mitigate this state of affairs, I propose that educators be encouraged to playfully consider non-performative goals, and that institutions can even welcome insincere or experimental consideration of non-performative educational goals. Such solutions may also correct excessively performative cultures outside educational contexts.

The end of the line

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stiff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Craft Knowledge ◽  
Reflective Design ◽  
Computer Scientists

This article is about encounters between electronic publishing and typography, seen through the lens of one issue: decisions about ending lines in typeset text. Computer scientists working in electronic publishing have long pressed typographers to explain the thinking behind their practice. But craft knowledge, represented by typographers, has so far largely remained mute. An apparently minor issue in typographic decision-making -whether to typeset text in justified or unjustified mode -reveals some of the situated reasoning which informs reflective design practice. The following questions are surveyed: What are the characteristics of unjustified setting? For what purpose is it used? How effective is it? How is it done in practice? Why has it been a subject of argument among typographers? Examining these questions tells something about the intricacy of typographic decision-making, and is a forcible reminder of the materiality of designing.

Raison d'etre: Embodying design history and rationale in hypermedia folklore—an experiment in reflective design practice

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
John M. Carroll ◽  
Sherman R. Alpert ◽  
John Karat ◽  
Mary S. Van Deusen ◽  
Mary Beth Rosson
Keyword(s):  
Design History ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Reflective Design

Discourse Mapping

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna BOEHNERT
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Science And Technology Policy ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
The University

This workshop will create a space for discussion on environmental politics and its impact on design for sustainable transitions. It will help participants identify different sustainability discourses; create a space for reflection on how these discourses influence design practice; and consider the environmental and social implications of different discourses. The workshop will do this work by encouraging knowledge sharing, reflection and interpretative mapping in a participatory space where individuals will create their own discourse maps. This work is informed by my research “Mapping Climate Communication” conducted at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) in the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the University of Colorado, Boulder. With this research project I developed a discourse mapping method based on the discourse analysis method of political scientists and sustainability scholars. Using my own work as an example, I will facilitate a process that will enable participants to create new discourse maps reflecting their own ideas and agendas.

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