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computer (mediated)online distance tele- computationalp (personalised)digital
scienceresearch
knowledgescholarship
social sciences humanities simulationsmethods
toolsmodels objectspublications
Humanities
Social sciences
Scholarship
Research
Computing
Infrastructure
Collaboration
Data
Always inscribed in & by instruments (e.g. telescopes, microscopes, calculators, computers)
Deeply social – in contexts of discovery & certainly in contexts of justification & use (e.g. labs, universities, publication practices)
Mutual influence between systems/ infrastructures of knowledge production & practices of knowledge production
Knowledge
Potentials are not necessarily nor always probabilities…
Need to consider specific institutional arrangements, systems of governance & accountability, infrastructure, instruments and practices
Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels 1848)
Futurist Manifesto (Marinetti 1909)
SCUM Manifesto (Solanas 1968)
Manifesto for Cyborgs (Haraway 1985)
Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial society & its future (Kaczynski 1995)
Manifesto for Digital Humanities, THATCamp, Paris May 2010 & Digital Humanities Manifesto, UCLA
Technology manifestos
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
Distributed collaboration – across distance, discipline, expert-amateur
Make the invisible visible
e-HumanitiesManifesto?
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