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Methods Session 1

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approach

Research is entering a conversation

1. what do you want to investigate?
2. what are you trying to find out?
3. what tickles your curiosity in the topics you are currently investigating?
4. what do you want to contribute to the conversation?

Question Drafts

1

what to investigate?

Permatext

what to find out?

what could permatext be in the context of permacomputing and digital text?

possibility for permatext as a term (concept) for digital paratext

what tickles curiosity?

drawn to relational, situated approach to computing (from permacomputing) and see parallels to text

I like thinking about text, intertextuality, materiality of digital text

perma - permeable

what to contribute to conversation?

permacomputing approaches spreading out in local communities

in Paris at Pre Post Print we discussed different perma - practices like permaprint

permatext could contribute a more detail approach, looking up close at something inscribed into permacomputing but also print, make (more) bridges/ relations between

permatext as a method for understanding interrelatedness of digital text?

2

what to investigate?

act / gesture of opening (digital) technology up

what to find out?

what implications come with acts of 'opening things up?' (extraction, intimacy, root...)

what do we use for opening up? (which tools)

what tickles curiosity?

intimacy of those moments

seeing how something is made, process (+ materials)

also tells about embeddedness/ relation/ evnironment of things

what to contribute to conversation?

open or closed are seen as binary in technology (open source, sth is readable, high level or low level language) striving for ambiguity

can there be relations made between findings opening up of software, web and hardware?

What does (digital) technology tell us about itself when we open it up?

3

what to investigate?

digital paratext

what to find out?

what is digital paratext and how is it different from print paratext?

how does it work? what does it influence?

what tickles curiosity?

interest in footnotes and citation

i love books as objects

importance of paratext to make a 'main' body of text

what to contribute to conversation?

understanding of digital text as also having an (or many) environment

examining hierarchies/ power dynamics in digital publications

can an extended understanding of the concept of paratext break down the percieved boundary between code based and printed text?

4

what to investigate?

text as (user) interface

interfaces for writing

what to find out?

a history of text interfaces (from the telex to terminal to high level text editor today), how have they changed over time, what links different technologies

reading is writing, writing is reading

implications of 'interface' (conventions) and 'user' (agency, in distinction to reader or programmer) but also everything that comes with 'text' (translation, language, authorship, visuality)

what tickles curiosity?

intersection of historical approach, hci studies and post structuralism (barthes)

what to contribute to conversation?