Presenters: Dr. Kedrick James, Yuya Takeda, Rachel Horst, Esteban Morales
Online via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69435143348?pwd=N015RE1oS3ExRFlKRmYyTzNkdmpOZz09
Meeting ID: 694 3514 3348
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LLED Research Seminar: Digital Arts-based Research Methods
This presentation will look at a variety of contemporary methods of conducting artful research utilizing digital software and tools. In particular, it will focus on a variety of projects undertaken at the LLED Digital Literacy Centre. These projects include the PhoneMe project, a website and mobile app (available on the App Store and Google Play) which serves as “social media for spoken poetry” with a focus on place-based expression; Singling, a data sonification software which converts text to sound according to user specified parameters for transmediation; The Patch, (a project which was plotted during the 2019 LLED Graduate Research Conference) which employs a variety of states and stages of transformation of textual data oscillating between digital and analogue techniques to collectively analyze and re-present findings; and Digital DIY, a maker space inspired project that incorporates aspects of creative futuring and computational thinking to reconceptualize and resist forms of technological determinism. We will discuss these projects through theoretical lenses that encompass concepts of transmediation, data assemblages, and glitch pedaogogies. In particular, we will be exploring experimental, grounded theoretical approaches to research that look at implications of the automation of language and interagential relationship between humans and algorithmic others in the production of meaning in research contexts. These methods reach across sensorial boundaries and position creativity at the centre of how we gather, process, analyze, and produce findings when working with textual data in language and literacy education.
Kedrick James is Director of the Digital Literacy Centre, Literacy Coordinator, and Associate Professor of Teaching in LLED. Current research focuses on teacher education, creative and critical literacies, and textual interpretation across different modalities of representation. An arts-based researcher, he uses digital mapping, data visualization, sonification, surveys, and innovative techniques.
Yuya Takeda is a PhD Candidate at LLED and GAA at the DLC. In his dissertation, Takeda studies conspiracy theories through philosophical and discourse analytic approaches and speculates on how critical media literacy education can respond to them. Please visit yuyapecotakeda.com for more information about his work.
Rachel Horst is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in digital literacies, futures literacies, and narrative futuring for cultivating the future(s) imaginary. Her work engages digital arts-based methodologies for investigating the futuring potential of qualitative research.
Esteban Morales is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. His research locates at the intersection between education, technology, and peace. He has been a GAA at the Digital Literacy Centre since 2019.
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