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Manifesto for e-Humanities ?. Sally Wyatt Sally.wyatt @ ehumanities.knaw.nl 15 December 2011. virtual cyber- data-driven e (electronic) e (enhanced) i (interactive) computer (mediated ) online distance tele - computational p ( personalised ) digital. science
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Manifestofore-Humanities? Sally Wyatt Sally.wyatt@ehumanities.knaw.nl 15 December 2011
virtual cyber- data-driven e (electronic) e (enhanced) i (interactive) computer (mediated) online distance tele- computational p (personalised) digital science research knowledge scholarship social sciences humanities simulations methods tools models objects publications
Humanities Social sciences Scholarship Research Computing Infrastructure Collaboration Data
Knowledge • Always inscribed in & byinstruments (e.g. telescopes, microscopes, calculators, computers) • Deeplysocial – in contexts of discovery & certainly in contexts of justification & use (e.g. labs, universities, publicationpractices) • Mutual influencebetweensystems/ infrastructures of knowledgeproduction & practices of knowledgeproduction
Potentials are not necessarily nor always probabilities… Need to consider specific institutional arrangements, systems of governance & accountability, infrastructure, instruments and practices
Technology manifestos • Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels 1848) • Futurist Manifesto (Marinetti 1909) • SCUM Manifesto (Solanas 1968) • ManifestoforCyborgs (Haraway 1985) • UnabomberManifesto: Industrial society & itsfuture (Kaczynski 1995) • Manifestofor Digital Humanities, THATCamp, Paris May 2010 & Digital Humanities Manifesto, UCLA
Manifesto for e-Humanities? • What objectives do we want technology to support? • What kind of technology do we want? • How can it be achieved? • How can technology be used to support the diversity of humanities research? • Openness – data, metadata, code, output • Distributedcollaboration – acrossdistance, discipline, expert-amateur • Make the invisible visible
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