{"id":464,"date":"2017-08-14T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:00:56","slug":"british-academy-mid-career-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/british-academy-mid-career-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"British Academy Mid-Career Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-466 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BA-logo-strap-CMYK-blue-white-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"British Academy: for the humanities and social sciences\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BA-logo-strap-CMYK-blue-white-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BA-logo-strap-CMYK-blue-white-150x61.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BA-logo-strap-CMYK-blue-white-1024x414.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BA-logo-strap-CMYK-blue-white.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cUnderstanding Digital Events\u201d: In August 2017 David was awarded a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/news\/mid-career-fellowships-awarded-public-engagement-champions\">British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0for the duration of 2018. This highly prestigious award allows &#8220;academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate their work to a wider audience, by obtaining time away from teaching and administration commitments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kreps.org\/academic\/concrescence\/\">kreps.org\/academic\/concrescence\/<\/a> for details of the project.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Project Abstract<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The Fellowship will provide the opportunity to a) complete research on digital experience, b) prepare a book manuscript for submission, &amp; c) hold a workshop for academics and practitioners to discuss the notion of an Information Systems \u2018Event&#8217;. The project examines personal experience of everyday digital tasks &#8211; paying a bill online, playing a digital game, receiving smartphone messages &#8211; and also new tasks such as tagging photographs, and experiencing people being recognised (or not) in photographs by software. The project seeks to discover if such digital experiences can usefully be re-conceived as a set of \u2018events\u2019 within a \u2018structure of events\u2019. This \u2018structure of events\u2019 approach uses Whitehead\u2019s process philosophy, where the \u2018event&#8217; comprises both the subjective consciousness of duration (Bergson\u2019s dur\u00e9e r\u00e9elle), the dexterity (or otherwise) of our physical gestures, and all the material and virtual artefacts of computing technology, and their interfaces, unified conceptually into a set of Digital Events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project will run between 1st January and 31st December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>See also the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salford.ac.uk\/news\/articles\/2017\/british-academy-fellowship-for-salford-academic\">University Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Outputs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/concrescence.org.uk\/2018\/08\/infomateriality-at-easst-2018-lancaster\/\"><em>EASST<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Infomateriality&#8217; &#8211; Paper at <a href=\"https:\/\/aisel.aisnet.org\/icis2018\/research\/Presentations\/3\/\"><em>International Conference on Information Systems<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Edited book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Understanding-Digital-Events-Bergson-Whitehead-and-the-Experience-of\/Kreps\/p\/book\/9780367144463\"><em>Understanding Digital Events <\/em><\/a>(Routledge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnderstanding Digital Events\u201d: In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship\u00a0for the duration of 2018. 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