Computing In Social Sciences, Arts And Humanities, Professions

'The conservation, cataloguing and digitization of Fr Luke Wadding’s papers at University College Dublin,' Franciscan Studies, 69 (2011), 477-489.

by Benjamin Hazard

Seventeenth-century manuscript studies and Computers in the Humanities. Seventeenth-century manuscript studies and Computers in the Humanities.

¿Cómo hacer una cartografía del tiempo y la memoria?

by L. Nicolás Guigou

¿Cómo hacer una cartografía del tiempo y la memoria?
En: Anuario de Antropología Social y Cultural. Montevideo:... more ¿Cómo hacer una cartografía del tiempo y la memoria?
En: Anuario de Antropología Social y Cultural. Montevideo: NORDAN-DAS, 2006.

"El cronista que narra los acontecimientos sin distinguir entre los
grandes y los pequeños, da cuenta de una verdad: que nada de
lo que una vez haya acontecido ha de darse por perdido para la
historia. Por cierto, que sólo para la humanidad redimida se ha
hecho su pasado citable en cada uno de sus momentos.
Cada uno de los instantes vividos se convierte en una citación à l ordre du jour, pero precisamente del día final".


Walter Benjamin, Tesis de filosofía de la historia

CARTOGRAFIAS ANTROPOLOGICAS GUIGOU 2004

by L. Nicolás Guigou

“El mundo social, que tiende a identificar la normalidad con la identidad entendida como constancia en sí mismo de un ser responsable, esto es, previsible o, mínimamente, inteligible, a la manera de una historia bien construida (por oposición a la historia contada por un idiota), dispone de todo tipo de instituciones de totalización y de unificación del yo. La más evidente es, obviamente, el nombre propio, que, como “designador rígido”, según la expresión de Kripke, “designa el mismo objeto en cualquier universo posible”, esto es, concretamente, sea en estados diferentes del mismo campo social (constancia diacrónica), sea en campos diferentes en el mismo momento (unidad sincrónica más allá de la multiplicidad de posiciones ocupadas)". (Bourdieu, 1996)

El diseño práctico de una cartografía, se mueve entre conexiones/desconexiones yasume la sujeción de las identidades... more El diseño práctico de una cartografía, se mueve entre conexiones/desconexiones yasume la sujeción de las identidades en tanto efecto de poder: inscripción, marcaje,
sea del nombre propio, sea (para nuestro caso) de la nomiNación, con sus dejos ciudadanos,
sus apetitos abarcativos, sus fronteras porososas (móviles) del adentro y delafuera.

Porque –volvamos a insistir– no hay inocencia en la clasificación.

Guigou Basini- Ciudades en perspectiva: un estudio socio-espacial de Manaus y Montevideo.

by L. Nicolás Guigou

The Anxiousness of Objects and Artworks - Speculations

by Robert Jackson

Dignity, Humiliation, and the Erosion of the Humanities

by Myra Mendible

Man-Machine

by Avi Rosen

Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, 1993.

Man machune interacrion in art from Futurism to Andy Warhol and new media art Man machune interacrion in art from Futurism to Andy Warhol and new media art

The Return of the Author

by Avi Rosen

"published in 'newmediafix',

The article transposes the text of Roland Barthes' 'Death of the Author', (La Mort de L'auteur 1968), to the arena of... more The article transposes the text of Roland Barthes' 'Death of the Author', (La Mort de L'auteur 1968), to the arena of happenings in cyberspace, and examines the implications from the point of view of author-reader-text, active in the electronic environment.

Aesthetics of serendipity: Muta-morphosis

by Murat Germen

More Than Typewriters, More Than Adding Machines: Integrating Information Technology Into Political Research

by Ken Cousins

A Humanistic Approach to the Study of Social Media: Combining Social Network Analysis & Case Study Research

by Ashley R. Kelly

Kelly, A. R., & Autry, M. K. (2011). A Humanistic approach to the study of social media: Combining social network analysis and case study research. SIGDOC’11: The 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Proceedings. Pisa, Italy: ACM, 257-260. doi: 10.1145/2038476.2038525.

Humanistic research into social media is presently diverse in approach, but rich in theoretical underpinnings. It is... more Humanistic research into social media is presently diverse in approach, but rich in theoretical underpinnings. It is unsurprising that there is some difficulty in translating often text-based approaches to multi-media rich, rapidly-evolving social networking environments. We explore theoretical issues for studying social media with respect to one popular research methodology: case study research (CSR). Here we examine the challenges that social media pose to CSR in the humanities and then advance an approach using social network analysis (SNA) to assist in selecting case studies. This approach, we argue, improves selection of case studies by considering the network structures of social media.

Implementing a “Fast and Frugal” Cognitive Model within a Computational Social Simulation

by Bill Kennedy

Co-authored with Jeffrey K. Bassett. Presented Oct 10th and to be published officially in the Society's proceedings (in press).

Large-scale social simulations require a cognitively credible but computationally efficient cognitive architecture to... more Large-scale social simulations require a cognitively credible but computationally efficient cognitive architecture to support simulations with thousands to tens of thousands agents. In previous work developing and experimenting with a large-scale social simulation, we successfully employed an ad hoc cognitive model, a formula-based decision function. We explain why we now believe that a “fast and frugal” cognitive architecture to be superior based on its indistinguishable computational efficiency and much better cognitive plausibility.

Can Technology 'Democratize' Academia?

by Robert Farrow

Write-up of a short presentation delivered at the Digital Humanities Colloquium at The Open University in July 2011 (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml).

Land use, water, and Mediterranean landscapes: modelling long-term dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems

by Michael Barton

2010 C. Michael Barton, Isaac Ullah, & Sean Bergin.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368: 5275–5297

The evolution of Mediterranean landscapes during the Holocene has been increasingly governed by the complex... more The evolution of Mediterranean landscapes during the Holocene has been increasingly governed by the complex interactions of water and human land-use. Different land-use practices change the amount of water flowing across the surface and infiltrating the soil, and change water's ability to move surface sediments. Conversely, water amplifies the impacts of human land-use and extends the ecological footprint of human activities far beyond the borders of towns and fields. Advances in computational modeling offer new tools to study the complex feedbacks between land-use, land-cover, topography, , and surface water. The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project (MedLand) is building a modeling laboratory where experiments can be carried out on the long-term impacts of agropastoral land-use, and whose results that can be tested against the archaeological record. These computational experiments are providing new insights into the socioecological consequences of human decisions at varying temporal and spatial scales.

Towards a community framework for agent-based modelling

by Michael Barton

2008 Marco A. Janssen, Lillian Na Alessa, C. Michael Barton, Sean Bergin, & Allen Lee.
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 11(2): no. 6.

Agent-based modelling has become an increasingly important tool for scholars studying social and social-ecological... more Agent-based modelling has become an increasingly important tool for scholars studying social and social-ecological systems, but there are no community standards on describing, implementing, testing and teaching these tools. This paper reports on the establishment of the Open Agent-Based Modelling Consortium, www.openabm.org, a community effort to foster the agent-based modelling development, communication, and dissemination for research, practice and education.

System Mash-Ups: Emergent Crafts and Rule-Based Approaches to Design and Construction

by Dermott McMeel

En las redes de Clío. Historia Antigua e Internet

by Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja

Co-authored with Miguel-Ángel López Trujillo.
Published in "Memoria y Civilización" (ISSN 1139-0107) 1, 1998, 79-96

Boundary at work: alternative medicine in biomedical settings

by Sky Gross

Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 27 No. 1 2005 ISSN 0141–9889, pp. 20–43. Co-authored with Nissim Mizrachi and Judith Shuval.

The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within
hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in... more The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within
hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern
medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical
practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in
biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to
examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention
to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to
secure its boundaries and to protect its hard-core professional
knowledge. It identifies the processes of exclusion and
marginalization as the main mechanisms by which symbolic
boundaries are marked daily in the professional field. These
processes enable the biomedical profession to contain its
competitors and at the same time to avoid overt confrontations
and mitigate potential tensions between the two medical systems.

Disagreement, Confusion, Disapproval, Turn Elicitation and Floor Holding: Actions as Accomplished by Ellipsis Marks-Only Turns and Blank Turns in Quasisynchronous Chats

by Kenneth Keng Wee Ong

Published in Discourse Studies, 13(2), 211-234, April 2011. Please access the paper at http://dis.sagepub.com/content/13/2/211.abstract

This study evidences turn actions done by ellipsis marks-only turns and blank turns as employed in quasisynchronous... more This study evidences turn actions done by ellipsis marks-only turns and blank turns as employed in quasisynchronous chats that are not discussed in prior literature. A brief introduction to the research background of ellipsis marks in online chats is followed by a description of the data collected before delving into the actions done by ellipsis marks-only turns and blank turns. Data was culled from multi-party chats among tertiary students during a critical reasoning class. A Conversation Analysis-informed approach is applied in this paper to analyze the preference organization of elliptical turns that illustrates responses signaling disagreement, confusion and disapproval besides initial actions of eliciting responses and holding the floor. More than punctuation marks or paralinguistic restitution of silences, their interpersonal meaningfulness in sequential context and differentness/similarity vis-à-vis temporal silences are demonstratively shown in microscopic and interpretive description of chat excerpts.

Amor virtual o por qué se llevan tan bien inscripciones y ordenadores

by Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja

Published as a chapter in J.M. Iglesias Gil (ed.), Cursos sobre el Patrimonio Histórico, 14, Santander 2010 [ISBN 978-84-8102-590-3], 67-96.