Thursday May 1st - Room EDB 341 - 9:15 - 14:00
Anybody involved in research using or exploring digital technologies/digital cultures is very welcome to attend the event all or in part. Please mail Caroline c.bassett@sussex to give us an idea of numbers.
Digital technology is being proposed as research theme at Sussex. This workshop aims to explore some of the work in and around this field at Sussex. We want:
• To begin to map out connections between different groups working in this field in order to ask (i) how these connections can be strengthened - and where and how this might usefully be done and (ii) how to develop new connections in unexpected places.
• To constitute/flesh out the beginnings of a shared agenda for the theme - this may in effect be a partial agenda and a second symposium or other event may be needed to build up areas neglected here.
• To focus on areas where there is already cross-disciplinary involvement on work around digital technologies and/or clear possibilities for developing this further. Hopefully these talks are both indicative of possible developments and spark debate on possible ways to collaborate.
• To consider possibilities for discrete collaborations, shared funding bids, on-going debate, sustained research programmes, collaborative public events and public knowledge dissemination projects, joint doctoral initiatives (e.g. EPSCRC cross disciplinary doctoral training programme), inter-disciplinary considerations of ethical and methodological issues, shared links with industrial/arts/3rd sector organizations, creative productions, networks, and through internal and external knowledge exchanges of many kinds.
This is part of a process. We hope this event provokes some useful debate and suggests what might be done next to make this theme work. Please download the poster to help publicise this event: poster
Session 1: 9:15 - 9:40
Introduction/Discussion: Digital Research: Connections and Disconnections?
Caroline Bassett (Media and Film) Rob Iliffe (History)
Session 2: 10:00 - 11:15
Digital Research (1) 15 minute papers setting out a research area
Seb Oliver: Astronomy (Sky Mapping)
Chris Thornton: (Informatics Social Technology)
Kate O'Riordan: Media and Film/CESAgen:
Phil Birch: Engineering (Pattern Recognition)
(Discussant: Sharif Mowlabocus)
11:20 - 12:30
Digital Research (2) 15 minute papers setting out a research area
Jon Sapsed: Centrim (Management Research Priorities for the Digital Creative Industries)
Justine Johnstone: SPRU (ICTs for social and economic development)
Bill Ashraf: Director Technology Enhanced Learning (ICTs and learning)
Dorothy Sheridan: Mass Observation (TBC)
(Discussant: Rob Iliffe History/Newton Project)
12:30-13:15
(Buffet lunch/Plenary discussion)
13:20 - 14:00
Mary Agnes Krell (Media Practice) Lee Miller, Penguins, Digital story-telling.
Nick Collins (Music/Informatics) Digital Music
(Discussant: Michael Bull)
13:30 - 14:00
Next? Open Discussion.