Understanding Digital Events – Page 2 – British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship project

‘Infomateriality’ at EASST2018

Published March 5, 2018

‘Infomateriality’: Whitehead and Digital Experience amongst the Over 65s

by David Kreps and Jessica Muirhead

This first conference paper from the project will be presented at the forthcoming EAST2018 Conference, “MEETINGS – MAKING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY TOGETHER”, in the panel on ‘Assembly, silence and dissent in the design and use of gerontechnologies‘.

Short abstract:

Older generations’ experience has been more visceral than today’s infoworld. Using Whitehead’s process philosophy, and findings from four-week diary studies with over65s and under25s, we consider modes of importance, expression and understanding to reconceive contemporary infomateriality.

Long abstract:

Baby boomers’, and older generations’ life experience has been more visceral than the disintermediated information world populated by agile young minds today. How do hands that have wielded industrial tools engage with the haptic gestures deployed with masterful finesse by those who grew up with a smartphone? What challenge do the invisible actants of the virtual present to those whose mastery was gained over a more mechanical world? What can we discern in the differences in self-concept between today’s over65s and under25s that are reflective of the technological revolution between?

Colloquium Speakers confirmed

Published February 16, 2018

All the speakers for the Colloquium on Understanding Digital Events, 14-6-18, are now confirmed.

Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna, Austria, President of the Society for Philosophy of Technology
Malcolm Garrett, Manchester School of Art, UK Master of the RSA’s Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry
Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University, Japan, Convenor, Project Bergson Japan.
Chris Bush and Elizabeth Buie, SigmaUK Ltd, UK Delivering exceptional digital solutions and an improved user experience for all
Tina Rock, University of Dundee, UK Lecturer in Philosophy and Whitehead scholar
Bernd Stahl, de Montfort University, UK, Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Abstracts for papers should be available soon, and a full programme will be published here at concrescence.org.uk when it is available.

Beginnings

Published January 8, 2018

Beginnings are always arbitrary.

They are always the effects of the slice of a sword through the flow, setting up a state that can be called ‘a beginning’.

Thus they constitute; ripples and after-shocks.

Thus they at best crest, at worst ignore, what precedes in the flow: the accumulated now.

This is the first post of my British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship blog.

Thus may it begin.

Understanding Digital Events Posts

‘Infomateriality’ at EASST2018

‘Infomateriality’: Whitehead and Digital Experience amongst the Over 65s

Colloquium Speakers confirmed

Beginnings