User:Kim/writing/research questions

drawing from research dashboard

Ongoing Question List

What are differences between Archiving and Documentation?
Can footnotes pose a method for (not only writing with many, but) intersectionality of theory? (intersectionality doesnt feel like the right word here, also theory is to broad, sth like voices heard? that would mean polyvocality, and yes, but beyond that? maybe more directed towards action?)
is tagging inherently violent? ('do artifacts have politcs?', afterword 'from A to <A>')
do interfaces have politics?
what implications of hiddenness can we find in modern technology?
what is the role of meta data in (post) digital publishing practices? (thinking of historical role of marginalia / pecia system, today protocol, markup, code comments ... though meta data might be to unprecise as terminology here)

Methods Session 1

sessions pad

approach

Research is entering a conversation

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

From Lidia Reader Tutorial:

narrowing down right now is good, but dont close off
keep in mind:
- what is my take on it?
- what is my position?
- what is it that i can contribute?

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?: linking (and comparison?) of different text interfaces over time and tools; critical understanding of above mentioned terms

What is the role of text in user interfaces?
Is text a user interface?
Can we understand text as user interface in the light of post structuralist paradigm (writing is reading / is writing)?

5

what to investigate?: citation in digital (writing, technologies, practices, environments)
what to find out?: how does citation work differently than in print, what is similar?; why is it important; citation as a matter of care for resource, infrastructure and community (just as we care for archiving, mirroring etc) -- maybe there is also a connection to labour this takes
what tickles curiosity?: citation as a feminist practice (Sara Ahmed, lauren fournier, autotheory, barthes); an interest in digital infrastructures and how they impact/ change/ allow for citation to be done differently
what to contribute to conversation?: mapping different existing citation practices (also shows its gaps); technologically, visually, textually