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From: "Sluis, Katrina Patricia" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: 21 November 2012 08:34:07 GMT
To: Sarah Cook <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] November Theme: Curating on and through web-based platforms
Hi all
Just to add briefly to Sarah's comments, I think one of the issues with the way the AHRC 'moot' was framed is that there was an absence of self-reflexivity about how 'digital transformations' apply to epistemologies, ontologies and practices within disciplines and not just 'wider culture'. Although there was a great buzz about new 'methods' (especially as it potentially gives humanities scholars the ability to do quantitative research and embrace positivism) and disseminating 'research in progress ' it felt at times that 'method' filled in for critical thinking about the politics of software and related tools.
Secondly, for those CRUMBsters in London, you may be interested in an upcoming panel on 4th Dec at The Photographers' Gallery: "All your cat memes are belong to us" where speakers will explore key questions around the image economy of the web, from LOLcats to Flickr, 4Chan to twitter, as well as issues arising from the curation of online photographic practices within the gallery/museum.
The panel includes Dr Lop Lop, who established the popular Flickr group Somebody else's cat, Dr Alexandra Moschovi, Lecturer in photographic theory and history, University of Sunderland, Dr Olga Goriunova, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University.
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/all-your-cat-memes-belong-to-us
Looking forward to the rest of the discussion.
Katrina
University of Sunderland - Shortlisted for the Times Higher University of the Year 2012
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