Notes on A technicity perspective to the practice of digital methods
- Janna Joceli Omena
- 2022 | Opening Talk | Janna Joceli Omena - YouTube
- what is technicity
- a means to (re)think method creation, design and implementation
- a domain of technical expertise & iterative practices
- an understanding of a network of relations with computational media
- field of knowledge that combines theoretical, technical and practical frameworks
- why or what to consider
- our tools for research are also mediums that need to be reflected upon
- digital methods needs us to develop a digital intellect, the critical, creative and contemplative of mind, search for meaning
- rejuvenation of scientific theories, practices and methods - we are reconsidering how scientific knowledge is created
- not only tools and methods, also mental modes
- this is very technicity comes in
- three practicle principles as building blocks
- being conceptually, technically and empirically acquainted with computational mediums
- understanding mediums in their own rights, as well as in relationship with each others, assemblages of mediums
- the need for methodological chains of digital methods
- this is a different understanding then the one where software does everything for one (by itself)
- after getting to know computational mediums, we can start to reason with and about them, w/o loosing sight of the subject of studies
- we need to account for the technicity of the tools of the process, and not just accept the output as given
- understanding computational mediums from different levels
- Individuals as research software (gephi, memespector)
- Elements (models, graph layouts)
- Ensemble (combination of all research process steps)
- researchers role, know how to orchestrate (not just understand) and interpret a technical ensemble composed of
- medium and subject of analysis
- computational mediums
- required technical practices
- researcher/student interventions
- walk towards the digital intellect
- making room for computatinal mediums as carriers of meaning
- grow an understanding of technical elements while practising digital methods
- establishing a sensitivity to the technicity of computational mediums
- four (general) contributions
- avoid fatal misalignments
- devise research design with digital methods
- think with and repurpose if necessary technical mediums
- discover new arrangements when doing digital methods