Now in its third year, Keystone DH is an annual conference and a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic.
Registration is now open at keystonedh.network/2017
The 4th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute conference will be held this August at Brock University in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula:
Dates: Wednesday August 16 – Thursday August 17, 2017
Dr. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo
“Learning to Collaborate (or Why You Should Hang Out with Librarians)”
Dr. Bonnie Stewart, University of Prince Edward Island
“The State of Digital Pedagogy: Where Networks and Institutions Intersect”
Dr. Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Tech
“The Hip Hop Archive as Pedagogical Design Issue: Speculating Across the Digital to the Physical ”
Invitations to submit a proposal for a paper, workshop, or poster:
• digital pedagogy best practices in the Humanities or Social Sciences;
• digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students;
• digital pedagogy collaborations with organizations outside the academy;
• the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education;
• digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations;
• innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.
Proposal Deadline: June 1
Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 22
Middlebury College seeks a creative and user-focused information professional to join our library staff as Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian. Located in the scenic Green Mountains of Vermont, Middlebury is a nationally recognized liberal arts college that offers graduate and specialized programs operating around the world. Middlebury employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation, competitive benefits, and access to top-notch facilities for education, research and recreation.
Position to begin Fall 2017. If you have a passion for digital scholarship, teaching, and a commitment to the evolving role of the library in a liberal arts education, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities & Expectations:
Requirements & Qualifications:
EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability.
Data & Society Research Institute is seeking a dynamic and expert individual to manage our research and intervention efforts on a project focused on the role of technology in the manipulation of institutions and information intermediaries. This position is based out of our New York City office, and starts immediately.
Manipulation Project: Understanding How Systems are Gamed
While technologies are often created with the best of intentions, they are often used in ways that dismay their creators. As data-driven and social technologies – and the companies that produce them – become more powerful, so do the individuals and groups attempting to undermine or manipulate tech to advance other agendas. From cybersecurity to spam and search engine optimization to the manipulation of mainstream media, we must confront the weaknesses and fault lines that appear in a technology and data-driven society.
At Data & Society, the Manipulation Project seeks to understand the mechanisms by which adversarial attacks on institutions and information intermediaries wreak havoc on countless systems, undermine trust in society, and destroy key mechanisms of social infrastructure– and the subsequent socio-technical implications. Conversations about topics like “fake news” or AI-powered bots fail to account for how and why systems can easily be gamed. This project aims to cut through the hype around these issues, and understand vulnerabilities in socio-technical systems that go beyond security and privacy. How can systems be manipulated? And what are the implications of that kind of manipulation?
Responsibilities will include:
Qualifications:
We expect that the right candidate for this position is mid-career and has spent a 5-7 years in a technology company, media institution, or research institute/think tank, and has managed investigative or research teams in the past.
To apply, please submit the following to jobs@datasociety.net:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please feel free to contact us at jobs@datasociety.net should you have any questions about the position. Questions about the opportunity or process will not reflect negatively on your application.
The work and wellbeing of Data & Society is strengthened by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, age, creed, color, culture, experience, national origin, religion or ancestry, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ability, pregnancy, and more. We welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities. In addition to federal law requirements, Data & Society complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
Data & Society Research Institute is seeking a Fellowship Manager to enhance, experiment with, and take in new directions Data & Society’s fellowship program. This role is a half-time, 15-month commitment, with room to grow to full time and extend beyond the initial period. The position is based out of our New York City office, and starts immediately.
Responsibilities include:
Qualifications:
To apply, please submit the following to jobs@datasociety.net:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please feel free to contact us at jobs@datasociety.net should you have any questions about the position. Questions about the opportunity or process will not reflect negatively on your application.
Bonnie Sheehey is a third-year PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department. Her research interests include social and political philosophy, pragmatism, 20th century French philosophy, critical theory, and media theory. She is currently working on a dissertation that “traces a philosophical mode of critique disentangled from the habits of judgment through the work of William James, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour. In this project, I attend to the resources these figures provide for contemporary debates in political philosophy and new media theory that concern the relation between critique and normativity.”
Bonnie was introduced to the New Media & Culture Certificate through Dr. Colin Koopman’s and Dr. Wendy Chun’s Habitual New Media course, and Dr. Michael Allan’s Comporative Literature course on Transmedia Aesthetics.
“My interest in the NMCC stems from a curiosity in how contemporary digital culture informs our subjectivity and sociality, and from a commitment to teaching philosophy courses that reflect areas of contemporary concern. The research I’ve conducted toward the NMCC brings the critical methods of genealogy, pragmatism, and actor-network-theory to bear upon aspects of new media that include the use of algorithms in policing practices and in the curation of memories on Facebook.”
Currently enrolled in the common seminar course taught by Dr. Seth Lewis, as well Data Genealogy taught by Dr. Koopman, Bonnie is working on research that “extends the use of Foucault beyond media archaeology to outline a critical methodology called ‘media genealogy.’” She seeks to highlight “the limitations of media archaeology for inquiring into formations of power and presses a turn toward media genealogy as an analytic for historicizing what Foucault called “technologies of power.”
Through these courses, she is interested in exploring “the possibility of applying Foucauldian methods of archaeology and genealogy to critically inquire into the power of data in our present” and particularly appreciates the “fruitful resources…interdisciplinary engagement and focused inquiry around a set of themes, debates, and issues connected to new media.”
Bonnie’s New Media Resources:
Online Tools:
https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/critical-algorithm-studies/
Books:
Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault (1975)
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter – Friedrich Kittler (1986)
Digital Keywords – Benjamin Peters (Ed.) (2016)
A Prehistory of the Cloud – Tung-Hui Hu (2015)
Control and Freedom – Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2006)
The Politics of Possibility – Louise Amoore (2014)
Articles:
“The Relevance of Algorithms” – Tarleton Gillespie (2014)
“Toward an Ethics of Algorithms” – Mike Ananny (2016)
“Real Time/Zero Time” – Tung-Hui Hu (2012)
“Without you, I’m nothing: Performances of the self on Twitter” – Zizi Papacharissi (2012)
Emily Ridout received her MA from the University of Oregon in Folklore in 2015 and now works as Program Coordinator for the Confucius Institute at the University of Oregon and spends her spare time running her own own astrology/yoga business and teaching at Mudra Yoga.
During her time as a student, NMCC helped her refine skills she used while filming, editing, and producing documentary films on topics ranging from environmental tourism to the chemistry of effective birth control. The certificate “added depth, and made it easier applying to jobs post-graduation. Also, having the skills to produce media content made building my personal business much easier.”
In her current position at the university, she continues to produce films as well as posters and web content. In her business, she manages web design and photo editing, and produces her own podcast: “Spirit Lore—a podcast where I interview all the people whose esoteric jobs we wish we knew more about (shamans, acupuncturists, tantric scholars, meditation guides, etc).”
Emily’s favorite thing about the program was the common seminar, “which positioned producing and using media within a larger context.”
Her favorite thing about working at the Confucius Institute is the diverse population she encounters, the institute often hosts interesting scholars from around the world. She is passionate about digital humanities because “they have given me tools to connect to people, communicate ideas, and listen to others on a broader scale than I previously thought possible.”
For anyone interested in working in this field, Emily has a great tip: “Start producing media today! Even if you’re not sure you’re doing it right, even if you’re not sure it will be perfect (it never is!).”
Emily’s Resources – “they get the job done in a fraction of the time!”
Ellen Gillooly-Kress is a first-year PhD student in Theatre Arts, in her third year here at the University of Oregon after receiving her MA in Linguistics in 2016. Her research has focused on “the intersection of cognitive processing of language in performance, specifically with actors and memorized lines. My focus was on cospeech gesture—what the actors were doing with their hands while speaking—and how it manifests when actors are trying to recall memorized speech. I’m fascinated by how our spontaneous behaviors we do when we are speaking every day manifest in certain kinds of “realistic” performance that is taught as part of the American theatrical tradition. I’m interested in using empirical data to reinforce the pedagogical discoveries made in the creative classroom.”
What drew her to the New Media and Cultural Certificate is her research interest in “the performance of theater in a society that is now heavily digital.”
In Algorithms and Automations with Prof. Seth J. Lewis in Winter 2017, Ellen was introduced to “the idea of algorithms as socially constructed artifacts. This in many ways is a direct reflection of how theatrical production can be, namely an ethereal object that many people must collaborate on and shape. These ethereal objects have a symbiotic relationship with their creators; both object and creator are constantly interfacing and changing one another. I credit Prof. Lewis with introducing me to the philosophies of Bruno Latour and the social construction theories of algorithms by Tarleton Gillespie.
I plan on using the knowledge from this class and others in the program to look at digital spaces as a kind of performance spaces for groups of individuals. I also enjoy bursting the perceived dichotomy between practices in theatre and practices in digital space.
Some of my favorite theatre companies have experimented with using digital space in their performances. For instance, Ferry Play by This Is Not A Theatre Company invited individuals to download a “podplay” to be listened to on the Staten Island Ferry. Collectively listening on individual devices while sharing a physical space engages the personal vs. public question of performance in a very dynamic way that is interesting to me not only as a researcher but as an artist myself.”
Ellen’s new media related recommendations:
Favorite performance pieces:
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Ceibal Foundation is organizing the 1st EdTech Winter School to take place in Uruguay, called “Emerging trends and new horizons in the study of education and technology”. The event will gather postgraduate students and early career academics from the main higher educational institutions in the country and the Latin American region. The Winter School is organized in partnership with ANII (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación), Departamento de Comunicación and Departamento de Educación (Universidad Católica del Uruguay), Universidad ORT, FLACSO Uruguay, Universidad de Montevideo and Facultad de Ingeniería (Universidad de la República).It aims to offer a stimulating learning environment for participants to present and discuss key challenges, research trends and opportunities, to foresee new horizons in education, learning and teaching practices enhanced by digital technologies.
OBJECTIVES
The Winter School will offer an exciting opportunity for postgraduate students and early career faculties to present and discuss relevant EdTech policies and research for studying the future of education and technology, innovation and inclusion in the coming decade.
Winter School participants will also be invited to:
a) Collaborate in a special publication that will be prepared, where attendees will disseminate the results of their studies;
b) Explore future collaborations in areas of common interest;
c) Become a Ceibal Foundation’s affiliate and participate in collective books publications, dissemination of academic works in the Institutional Repository of Ceibal Foundation, among other scientific initiatives.
During a week of academic and social activities, candidates are expected to gain valuable knowledge, skills and meaningful perspectives in the fields of EdTech, innovation and inclusion. The official language of the event will be English. The programme will combine keynote lectures, training and participating in joint project-based learning.