[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Digital Hour - UC Irvine's Cory Knobel

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

The Digital Hour



 

Thursday, November 15, 2012

11:45 am - 12:50 pm

UC Irvine's Calit2 Building, Room 3008

 



 

UC Irvine's Cory Knobel

 

"Decoding the Digital: 

Valuing Emerging Modes of Scholarly Expression"

 

RSVP to Maureen Vasquez: mbvasque at uci.edu <mailto:mbvasque at uci.edu>  or
(949) 824-1323

 

Additional Details
<http://merage.uci.edu/ResearchAndCenters/CDT/Content/The-Digital-Hour/1
87> 

 

Abstract

The text-centric journal article and monograph are mainstays of
scholarly communication, but as digitally-based work advances, new and
often challenging types of knowledge-bearing artifacts are asserted as
scholarship in their own right.  Since our meritocratic systems rely on
defending constructs like "rigor", how do we welcome such expressions
into existing "ways of knowing" and the broad spectrum of disciplinary
commitments to validity?  This talk points to the changing landscape of
scholarly artifacts and discusses the need for a new set of digital
hermeneutics - ways to read and value digital artifacts in their native
forms - as a key component to transforming intellectual institutions and
cultures.  

 

Biography

Cory Knobel joined UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information &
Computer Sciences as an Informatics faculty member in January 2012.  He
is also the Executive Director of the EVoKE Lab (Emerging Values of
Knowledge Expression), which explores and designs new technologies that
start with human and social values, and then progress to technical
concerns.

 

Professor Knobel's current work focuses on the role of human and social
values in the design of information systems and technologies.  He is
particularly interested in how emerging techniques in information
representation and interaction give rise to new forms of knowledge
discovery and expression. With Geoffrey Bowker and John Seberger, he
recently released a NSF-sponsored web-based report that explores how new
media shapes scholarly communication and challenges us to consider new
forms of knowledge-generating practices, institutions, and artifacts
(found at econfigs.ics.uci.edu). 

 

Before coming to UCI, Cory was an assistant professor at the University
of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in
Information from the University of Michigan's School of Information in
2010, where he also completed graduate degrees in Science, Technology, &
Society, and in Complex Systems.  

 

 

Join us for this casual & informative speaker series.

 

Hosted by UC Irvine's Center for Digital Transformation

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/uci-calit2/attachments/20121113/8619dd0a/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1826 bytes
Desc: image004.jpg
Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/uci-calit2/attachments/20121113/8619dd0a/attachment-0002.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image006.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3570 bytes
Desc: image006.jpg
Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/uci-calit2/attachments/20121113/8619dd0a/attachment-0003.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: The CRITO Digital Hour - Cory Knobel.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 400184 bytes
Desc: The CRITO Digital Hour - Cory Knobel.pdf
Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/uci-calit2/attachments/20121113/8619dd0a/attachment-0001.pdf