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Poste de doctorant-e à 80% en journalisme et communication

2022年12月20日 23:24

L’Académie du journalisme et des médias (AJM) de l’Université de Neuchâtel offre un poste de doctorant-e en journalisme et communication, financé par le Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS), sur la thématique Journalisme et données en temps de pandémie. A partir du 1er mars 2023, ou à négocier.

La personne engagée travaillera sur le projet “Harnessing the potential of data visualization and narratives produced by media and public actors in times of pandemic or health crisis”, retenu par le FNS dans le cadre de son Programme national de recherche 80 (Covid19 in Society). Il s’agit d’un projet multidisciplinaire (associant journalism studies, études du comportement, science visuelle et système d’information) qui vise à comprendre comment les données sont produites, racontées, comprises et interprétées dans un contexte de pandémie et à fournir des pistes de réflexion aux acteurs concernés. Il s’agit en effet d’une recherche fondamentale à vocation appliquée, qui associe
d’ailleurs une douzaine de partenaires : des médias (Arcinfo, Heidi.news, Le Temps, la RTS et l’Initiative pour l’innovation dans les médias), l’Office national de la statistique suisse (OFS), le département de la santé publique de l’état de Neuchâtel, ainsi que des écoles et formations en journalisme (AJM, CFJM, MAZ,
ZHAW, Ecole de journalisme de Louvain).

Contexte du projet
La contribution de la personne engagée portera principalement sur deux axes du projet (sur cinq) qui consistent en :

Une analyse des données et des indicateurs publiés par les médias en Suisse romande pendant la pandémie de Covid19, sur la base de corpus constitués avec les médias partenaires. Les analyses de contenu qualitatives et quantitatives (via des outils de lexicométrie et d’analyse de réseau) permettront d’étudier la manière dont ces données ont été cadrées par les journalistes, mais également dont elles se sont inscrites dans des controverses accompagnant leur circulation, en particulier sur les réseaux socio
numériques.
Une enquête par entretiens auprès des acteurs impliqués dans la production et la diffusion des données (principalement les journalistes mais aussi les autres professionnels impliqués) pour comprendre les conditions de production des données pendant la pandémie, les choix effectués (des sources, des indicateurs, etc.), leur cadrage et mise en forme (narration et visualisation) ainsi que le rapport aux publics et aux controverses suscitées par ces données.

Activités
Thèse de doctorat en journalisme et communication, axée sur la production des données par les journalistes en période de pandémie, sous la supervision de la professeure Nathalie PignardCheynel. La thèse sera constituée d’au moins 3 articles à publier dans des revues de la discipline, en cosignature avec la requérante voire d’autres membres du projet.
Contribuer aux événements (séminaires, rencontres, etc.) organisés dans le cadre du projet, en particulier avec les partenaires.
Contribuer à d’autres activités académiques et à la vie de l’institut.

Exigences
Master en communication ou journalisme, humanités numériques ou plus largement sciences sociales avec connaissance du champ de recherche en journalism studies et/ou expérience professionnelle en journalisme (autres profils bienvenus, si fort intérêt et capacité à investir rapidement le domaine des recherches en journalisme et médias)
Notions de base en récolte et analyses de données (data scraping,
cartographie de réseaux, etc.) et /ou analyse lexicométrique
Connaissances de base en statistiques
Indépendance et esprit d’initiative avérés
Esprit d’équipe
Langues : très bonne maîtrise du français (oral et écrit) et bonne maîtrise de l’anglais (C1)

Conditions
Poste à 80% sur 3 ans (durée du projet)
Salaire basé sur le règlement du Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique : https://www.unine.ch/srh/doctorantesfns
Excellent environnement de travail (université, infrastructure, ville, offre sportive)

Contact
Pour tout complément d’information sur le poste, vous pouvez contacter la professeure Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel (nathalie.pignard-cheynel@unine.ch)

Procédure de candidature et date limite
Les dossiers de candidature, comprenant un CV, une déclaration d’intérêt, des copies des diplômes avec relevés de notes, un travail scientifique représentatif tel qu’une thèse de master ou une proposition de recherche pour la thèse de doctorat, doivent être envoyés d’ici le 9 janvier 2023 par email (objet : Doctorat
PNR) à claudine.faehndrich@unine.ch avec copie à nathalie.pignardcheynel@unine.ch. Veuillez également mentionner dans votre email comment vous avez eu connaissance de ce poste.

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CFP: Le numérique comme méthodes et terrains. Perspectives féministes (NuMFem 2023)

2022年12月1日 18:52

Le colloque “Le numérique comme méthodes et terrains : perspectives féministes” (NuMFem2023) se tiendra les  29-30 juin 2023 en ligne et au Centre Internet et Sociétré (CIS) sur le site Pouchet du CNRS (Paris).

L’ambition de ce colloque international est d’interroger la façon dont le numérique, à la fois instrument, méthode, terrain et objet de recherche (Bourdeloie, 2013), renouvelle non seulement les méthodes et méthodologies des sciences sociales (Millette et al., 2020) mais également ébranle le « système » du genre partant de l’idée que la science et les techniques qui la sous-tendent ne sont pas pures. Le calcul qui préside n’est pas neutre et les quantités de données massives collectées ne sauraient être gage d’objectivité (Venturini et al., 2014). Ainsi, les méthodologies utilisées ont des « conséquences politiques » (Proulx, 2020). Or, un « regard politique et épistémique» (Ibid.) sur les méthodes et méthodologies éclaire les conditions de production, de collecte et d’analyse des données, autrement dit sur le caractère « impur » et situé de la connaissance (Harding, 1991). Interroger les méthodes et méthodologies depuis un positionnement féministe, c’est donc prêter une attention particulière aux biais qui président à la production et à l’interprétation des données, c’est faire de ces biais des ressources heuristiques et épistémiques en vue de produire une recherche plus « objective » (Ibid.).

 

Le numérique, non plus comme méthode ou outil mais comme environnement cette fois, trouble les frontières du genre. L’informatique, et aujourd’hui l’intelligence artificielle, dénoncée comme « nouvelle ingénierie du pouvoir » (Crawford, 2021) sont imprégnées de biais de genre infusés dans le corps social. Du design aux usages, les normes de genre circulent dans les productions, les traces, les discours et les pratiques.

 

Il s’agit ainsi d’interroger les nouveaux défis que posent la statistique et les données massives au genre et à l’observation de ce rapport social. Les défis se posent effectivement en matière de méthode puisque le numérique ouvre des possibles. À la suite de travaux sur l’épistémologie féministe (Haraway, 2007 ; Harding, 1991), l’objectif de ces journées consiste ainsi à se demander si la recherche féministe peut enrichir les méthodes numériques (Hesse-Biber, 2012), favoriser des démarches plus inclusives, échapper aux biais de genre auxquelles s’exposent les méthodologies classiques, se soustraire à la binarité des dispositifs techniques et d’enquête, faire de l’identification de ces biais une source de réflexivité, rendre visible les paroles issues de minorités de genre et sexuelles dans le traitement des données. Enfin, dans une perspective critique, il s’agit aussi de se demander si, en réponse à la concentration opérée par les géants de l’internet, d’autres formes alternatives d’organisation sont possibles (Dulong de Rosnay et Musiani, 2020).

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Axe 1 – Méthodes mixtes, interdisciplinaires et articulation « en ligne/hors ligne »

Cet axe de l’appel place la focale sur les travaux qui articulent plusieurs méthodes, disciplines et niveaux d’analyse, dans le cadre d’une perspective féministe appliquée au numérique.

En premier lieu, il s’agit de mettre en discussion la pertinence de l’usage des méthodes mixtes, qui articulent des éléments empruntés aux approches quantitatives et qualitatives. Sont attendues ici les propositions présentant des considérations méthodologiques ou la construction de terrains qui dépassent ce traditionnel clivage entre le qualitatif et le quantitatif. Sont également bienvenues les approches épistémologiques visant à cerner les contours, les apports et les limites des méthodes mixtes aux études féministes du numérique. À titre d’exemple, il est possible de citer l’utilisation de l’analyse de réseaux dans le but d’obtenir un corpus ciblé dont la taille ne constitue plus un obstacle à l’étude qualitative, utilisée par Julien Mésangeau et Céline Morin dans leur analyse de l’activité sociale de la manosphère sur YouTube (Mésangeau et Morin, 2021). La constitution d’un corpus de tweets avec l’appui de l’informatique, couplée à l’étude de la circulation des images et une approche sémiotique mobilisée par Virginie Julliard pour étudier la structuration de la mobilisation anti-genre sur Twitter, constitue un autre exemple de combinaison possible (Julliard, 2022).

Les enjeux liés à l’inter- et à la pluridisciplinarité des méthodes mobilisées pourront également être problématisés. Les études sur le genre comme l’analyse des médias numériques se déploient dans un contexte d’interdisciplinarité forte au sein des sciences sociales. Cet axe pourra accueillir tant les propositions qui abordent des recherches menées en contexte inter- ou pluridisciplinaire que les réflexions sur la façon dont les divisions disciplinaires impactent la compréhension des phénomènes étudiés. La confrontation des modèles et leur discussion pourra également avoir pour objectif d’en cerner les points aveugles. Dans sa thèse en informatique, Nick Doty (2020) s’appuie ainsi sur une approche interdisciplinaire couplant un travail ethnographique à l’usage de méthodes statistiques et informaticiennes, pour aborder la question des inégalités de genre (parmi d’autres) dans la participation au développement des standards d’Internet affectant la vie privée.

Enfin, les propositions pourront aborder l’articulation entre les méthodes numériques et « hors ligne » pour appréhender des phénomènes en ligne. L’objectif est ici de mettre en avant les travaux qui mobilisent en parallèle d’un terrain numérique des méthodes d’enquête en sciences sociales privilégiant le face à face (tels que l’entretien approfondi, l’observation in situ, l’observation d’usage, les focus groups etc.). Cela permettrait ainsi de dépasser l’opposition de sens commun entre les pratiques numériques et la « vie réelle », tout en réfléchissant à la façon dont les phénomènes en ligne observés prennent sens dans le cadre d’une réalité sociale plus large. Par exemple, une démarche d’enquête possible pour cerner les espaces en ligne pertinents à étudier afin de comprendre les usages d’une communauté consiste à partir des pratiques décrites par les enquêté⸱e⸱s rencontr⸱é⸱s dans différents cercles de sociabilité sur le terrain (réseau d’interconnaissance, associations etc.). C’est le choix qui avait été effectué par Lucie Delias et Mélanie Lallet dans leur étude des pratiques d’information en ligne autour des transidentités (Lallet & Delias, 2018 ; Delias & Lallet, 2019). Dans sa thèse sur les conditions de production et de circulation des discours « en/hors ligne » produits par le mouvement #NousToutes, qui lutte contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles, Irène Despontin Lefèvre (2022) articule également l’observation en ligne des plateformes numériques utilisées par le collectif à une démarche ethnographique mêlant observations in situ et entretiens.

Quel que soit l’angle choisi, les auteur⸱e⸱s sont particulièrement encouragé⸱e⸱s à mettre en œuvre une démarche réflexive, interrogeant l’intérêt des articulations proposées ainsi que des modes de collecte et d’analyse des données mis au point pour correspondre à leurs objectifs de recherche.

 

Axe 2 – Quel apport de l’épistémologie féministe aux méthodes numériques ?

Les sciences humaines et sociales se sont interrogées sur le féminisme comme épistémologie, méthodologie ou méthode. Les débats ont porté sur la façon dont le féminisme pouvait défier les méthodologies traditionnelles et sur l’éventuelle spécificité des méthodes d’enquête féministes (Harding, 1987). Si Sandra Harding a reconnu qu’il n’existait pas de méthodes « distinctement féministes », elle a néanmoins accordé que la recherche féministe recueillait son matériau dans des conditions spécifiques. Comme l’écrit Isabelle Clair (2016) à propos du rapport au terrain, la « nature des interactions qui se développent au cours d’une enquête ainsi que la transformation par l’enquêteur de la vie des autres en terrain (…) posent de nombreux problèmes qui rencontrent de façon singulière la promotion d’une science féministe » (Clair, 2016, p. 70). Ce regard caractéristique du féminisme a conduit plusieurs auteur·e·s à considérer qu’en mettant l’accent sur le politique, la recherche féministe enrichissait les approches méthodologiques classiques et leurs méthodes (Hesse-Biber, 2012 ; DeVault & Gross, 2012 ; Reinharz & Kulick, 2007 ; Bobo, 1989 ; hooks, 1992), tout comme elle favorisait des démarches plus inclusives (Hesse-Biber & Piatelli, 2012, p. 145 ; Chandrashekar, 2020).

Le numérique, à la fois instrument, méthode, terrain et objet de recherche (Bourdeloie, 2013), a renouvelé les méthodes et méthodologies des sciences sociales (Millette et al., 2020). Inspirés de la théorie du positionnement, des travaux se sont interrogés pour savoir si celle-ci pouvait être mobilisée, sur un plan méthodologique, pour la recherche sur les médias socionumériques (Luka et Millette, 2018) ; et dans quelle mesure il était là possible d’adopter une éthique du care. Les travaux de Jaércio Da Silva (2020), proposent ainsi d’étudier le déploiement des mouvements intersectionnels et apparentés sur la toile (tels que l’afroféminisme) comme terrain.

L’enjeu de cet axe consiste à mettre l’accent sur les spécificités en matière de démarche, méthodologie et méthode que posent les recherches féministes, intersectionnelles et de genre. Plus qu’une catégorie, un observable ou un outil de la subjectivité, le genre ne pourrait-il pas aussi constituer une démarche, méthode ou méthodologie pour observer les genres et les sexualités multiples ? Dans quelle mesure les déplacements des frontières du genre observées modifient-ils les méthodes et les façons de rechercher et vice et versa ? Dans quelle mesure les recherches féministes mobilisent-elles des méthodes spécifiques pour observer les mécanismes de différenciation, catégorisation et hiérarchisation sociales ? Et surtout dans quelle mesure le numérique peut-il constituer une méthode  permettant de déployer une éthique féministe ?

Axe 3 – Quels défis posent les données massives au genre ?

Le numérique, ainsi que les nouvelles dynamiques de production, de collecte et d’analyse des données dites massives posent de nouveaux défis au genre (Luka et Millette, 2018). Le genre devient problématique quand il est utilisé comme outil de mesure et confondu avec la notion de sexe (Cervulle & Quemener, 2014). Si, pendant longtemps, la sociologie quantitative n’a su que prendre appui sur l’enregistrement officiel du « sexe » de l’individu·e (de Singly, 2012) et se limiter à collecter et analyser des données sexospécifiques, de plus en plus d’enquêtes déploient de nouveaux dispositifs pour relever des défis plus en adéquation avec des réalités complexes et individuelles. Toutefois, sur un plan méthodologique, est-il possible, en termes statistiques, d’observer ce rapport social, de concevoir de nouveaux indicateurs et de nouvelles descriptions ? L’enjeu de cet axe est d’interroger comment – et dans quelle mesure – les données massives et quali-quantitatives permettent d’investiguer les questions liées au genre.
Comment construire des données et des outils de qualité, sensibles au genre, et échappant au modèle binaire ? Comment penser les logiques de groupe et les particularités ? Pour dépasser la question de la représentativité et s’attaquer aux questions d’inclusivité des données et des modèles notamment statistiques, il faut concevoir une politique des données adéquate et retravailler les notions de transparence, d’accessibilité et d’éthique. Comment relever ce défi ? Si la disponibilité et l’accessibilité des données augmentent, il importe également de promouvoir l’utilisation des données existantes dans le but d’approfondir et de diversifier les analyses des questions de genre.  Ces efforts doivent être soutenus par des initiatives visant à faire mieux connaître les données sur le genre, tant auprès des personnels de recherche que des responsables publics et de la population en général, de sorte à améliorer la compréhension et l’utilisation de ces données. 

 

Enfin, existe-t-il des tentatives pour renouveler les méthodes de collecte et d’analyse de données liées aux questions de recherche posées par les études de genre et afin de mieux saisir l’imbrication des rapports sociaux ? C’est, par exemple, ce que proposait la démarche de l’enquête « Violences et rapports de genre » (Virage) conduite en France par l’Institut national des études démographiques (Ined, 2017 ; Brown et al., 2021), qui « a institué les fondements d’une méthodologie qui repose sur l’absence de référence aux catégories juridiques dans les questions posées aux personnes enquêtées ».

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Informations concernant la soumission des propositions

  • Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel au plus tard le 3 février 2023 à proposition@numfem2023.fr
  • Le fichier sera envoyé en format .doc ou odt et intitulé NuMFem2023_NOM_Prénom_Titre DeLaCommunication ;
  • Ce document contiendra les éléments suivants : Noms, prénoms, courriels, affiliations/institutions de rattachement, titre de la communication, résumé de la communication (500 mots plus une dizaine de  références citées).
  • A la suite du colloque, les auteur·ice·s intéressé·e·s pourront soumettre un article issu de leur communication à des fins de publication dans un dossier de revue (en cours de discussion).
  • Les réponses aux propositions de communication seront envoyées, par courriel, le 3 mars 2023.

Lieu du colloque : 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris, France. Accès | Plan.
Colloque en format hybride

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Six new CROSS projects on the theme of crisis

2022年11月25日 18:38

The 2023 edition of the CROSS (Collaborative Research on Science and Society) program invited researchers from EPFL and the University of Lausanne to submit proposals for joint projects on the theme of crisis. These projects combine natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities to address some of the most pressing challenges facing society.

It seems that the word ‘crisis’ appears in media headlines almost daily, whether in reference to the climate and natural disasters, political conflict and humanitarian aid, digital security and privacy, finance and socioeconomics, or even our physical and mental health. When a problem is elevated to the status of a crisis, it is often due to both its extremity and its urgency, necessitating immediate decision-making and action.

Because crises often develop at the convergence of several different factors, an interdisciplinary approach is essential to better understanding why crises occur, and developing potential solutions.

CROSS has granted funding for 2023 to six interdisciplinary projects at EPFL and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) that will address current crisis situations. Each project will receive up to CHF 60’000, to be shared between the two institutions.

CROSS 2023: Selected projects

 
Analysis and Modelling of the Dissemination and Social Impacts of Scientific Preprints during Crises

  • Daniel PROBST, EPFL (STI)
  • Michael PIOTROWSKI, UNIL (SLI, FL), member of the dhCenter

Under normal circumstances, cutting-edge research is of little interest to the general public. However, during the COVID-19 crisis, the media began to report on results shared in non-peer-reviewed preprints, and laypeople began to read, share, and comment on them via social media. Combining approaches from data science, machine learning, digital humanities, and history, this project aims to investigate the mechanisms of information flow in this particular crisis and compare it to historical crises. The ultimate goal is to develop a general methodology that can guide the processing of non-peer-reviewed scientific information and inform the communication of scientific information to the public and policymakers during crises.

Investigating industrial pollution: an interdisciplinary approach

  • Aurélie BERTHET, UNIL (UNISANTE, DSTE)
  • Alexandre ELSIG, EPFL (CDH)

At the beginning of 2021, a significant soil contamination to dioxins was discovered in Lausanne. It was due to a former waste incinerator that operated from 1958 to 2005. This episode illustrates how many industrial pollutions, past or present, can remain invisible for decades, and continuing to exert their harmful effects without inciting public authorities to protect the population. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this project will retrace the history of pollution in Lausanne in order to improve its monitoring in terms of public health. It will mobilize tools and methods specific to toxicology, environmental chemistry, history and political sociology, in order to gather data on both the specificity of this pollution (extent, possible causes, age) and its non-constitution as a public problem. The complementarity of these perspectives will help to recommend practical solutions to reinforce the monitoring of environmental pollution, and develop an approach that can be transposed to other cases.

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Drought Impacts Assessment on Vegetable Health

  • Jérôme CHENAL, EPFL (ENAC, CEAT)
  • Olivier GALLAY, UNIL (DO, HEC)

Along with our partner at EPFL, the project intends to develop and apply Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Drought Impacts Assessment on Vegetable Health. Two areas with historically high agricultural production rates but prone to drought disasters were selected: Murehwa district, Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and West Pokot county, western region of Kenya, Eastern Africa. Our findings will be disseminated in workshops, conference proceedings and open source journals.

Extended-range warnings for heatwaves in Switzerland (HEATaware)

  • Daniela DOMEISEN, UNIL (FGE)
  • Michael LEHNING, EPFL (ENAC, CRYOS)

Heatwaves are increasing globally in frequency and intensity under climate change. These changes in heatwaves represent a global crisis that could be mitigated by ample advance warnings for the relevant stakeholders. The goal of the HEATaware project is to assess the potential of heatwave prediction and warnings in Switzerland on timescales up to several weeks, including an evaluation of the potential benefits of such warnings for sectors that are directly linked to human lives and livelihoods, with a focus on human health and high-alpine environments. Heatwave warnings could help to prepare high-elevation areas in the fields of tourism, infrastructure, hydropower management and natural hazard warnings, while the Swiss midlands could greatly benefit from heatwave warnings that protect human health. The overall goal of this Swiss-wide collaboration is to use the available prediction skill for heatwaves to evaluate to what extent seamless heatwave warnings on timescales of days to weeks are possible and beneficial with respect to impacts on both mountain regions and lower-lying areas by bringing together experts in heatwave prediction, human health impacts, high-elevation hazards, and weather warnings.

Improving understanding of the biodiversity crisis resulting from glacial retreat through robotic data capture

  • Josie HUGHES, EPFL (STI, CREATE LAB)
  • Gianalberto LOSAPIO, UNIL (FGE)

Global environmental change, in particular rising temperatures, is causing alpine glaciers to retreat and disappear. This could have catastrophic effects; the recent IPCC Report highlights how glaciers are unique and threatened ecological and human systems that are a major reason for concern. This could be described as crisis situation for the ecosystems that these glacial environments support. However, the consequences of glacier retreat on ecosystems are still poorly known and difficult to measure. This makes it difficult to understand the current crisis situation, to enable potential solution to be explored. As such it is critically important to understand and monitor the changes in the biodiversity of these retreating and fast-changing glacier environments to develop solutions for anticipating the impact on glacier retreat on socioecological systems. We propose utilizing advances in tethered robot systems to develop a monitoring tool for gathering biodiversity data of these inhospitable environments in a safe way. These tethered robots traverse rope systems (deployed manually or by robots). By adding cameras and sample collectors (for insects and plant leaves) data can be gathered for extremely challenging and steep environments. This system will allow us to monitor biodiversity in previously inaccessible recent ice-free slopes and glacier surfaces, and allow for much larger collection of data in both temporal and spatial scales to improve our understanding of biodiversity changes in these key ecosystems.

Understanding loCal Risk cUlture(s) in the context of climate CrisIs: AvaLanche hazard from the perspective of anthropology and natural sciences & technologies / CRUCIAL

  • Florence GRAEZER BIDEAU, EPFL (CDH), member of the dhCenter
  • Michel JABODEYOFF, UNIL (FGE, ISTE)

International standard setting instruments and policy makers increasingly refer to the relationship between heritage, both tangible and intangible, and crisis. Heritage is here regarded both as being under threat and as a powerful tool for recovery and resilience. Encompassing “local risk culture”, namely the know-how of local populations developed to cope with crisis and to live in an hostile environment, Intangible Cultural Heritage is regarded as a resource for future generations and a source of inspiration to be integrated with technological innovation and scientific research.
This project focuses on Avalanche Risks Management, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018 by Switzerland (in collaboration with Austria) and aims at unpacking the idea of a culture of risk management. Since avalanches are not regularly experienced by a given community within the same generation, this community shares a hazard culture of coping with danger, often in a situation of cognitive dissonance. This, however, is different from a culture of risk management. We want to understand how this culture of risk management is produced: does it “naturally” spurs in social interaction, or is it proactively triggered by communication and awareness raising? how do individual or group interests, associated in particular with the tourism industry shape perceptions of vulnerability and resilience? These questions have broader relevance and are particularly timely today, when natural disasters could become the new normal.

 

This article was originally published on 23.11.21 by Virginie Martin, EPFL CDH

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CFP: Historical Documents and automatic text recognition

2022年11月18日 21:54

With this special issue of the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH), the goal is to bring together in one single volume several experiments, projects and reflections related to automatic text recognition on Historical documents.

Many projects now include automatic text acquisition in their data processing chain. The integration of this technology into increasingly powerful processing chains has led to an automation of tasks that affects the role of the researcher in the textual production process. This new data-intensive practice makes it urgent to collect and harmonize the corpora necessary for the constitution of training sets, but also to make them available for exploitation. This issue will be an opportunity to propose articles combining philological and technical questions to make a scientific assessment of the use of automatic text recognition for ancient documents, its results, its contributions and the new practices induced by its use in the process of editing and exploring texts. This special issue is an opportunity to question the practical aspects, while raising methodological challenges and its impact on research data.

This special issue is the outcome of an event that took place at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris on June 23 and 24, 2022, which brought together scholars from various backgrounds to discuss the use of HTR and OCR in their researches. During these days, problems of engineering, machine learning or infrastructure were raised. Many technical subjects such as segmentation or the development of models linked to philological questions were discussed. The different speeches covered a large number of documents: manuscripts, archives, epigraphic materials, documents, sometimes in languages with their own specificities such as Hebrew, Vietnamese languages as CHAM or ancient Greek from the 11th to the 20th century.

This call is open not only to participants of these event, but to anyone working with HTR or OCR.

To address these issues,  the following three axes are suggested:

– Axis 1: Sources, constitution and sharing of training data.

– Axis 2: Machine learning

– Axis 3: Feedback and data exploitation

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities is an open-access peer-reviewed journal with first draft as pre-print in arxiv or HAL and peer-review post-publication.

Submission and deadlines

The papers are expected to be between 6 and 8 pages for short paper or between 12 and 15 pages for long papers.

The articles must present original and previously unpublished work.

All submissions must be in english

All the articles submitted are subject to blind peer-review in accordance with the journal’s editorial policies.

Submission deadline: 1 November 2022, Extension of the deadline to 1st of December

For more details on the submission process, click here.

Contact : ariane.pinche@cnrs.fr

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ACDH-CH offering internship positions

2022年11月10日 17:09

The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH)  will again be offering internship positions in February 2023. Students and young professionals who are interested in Digital Humanities and want to gain insights into the ACDH-CH can apply for an internship.

Internships at the ACDH-CH aim to provide a hands-on work experience and an insight into the workings of an academic research institute with a focus on digital humanities scholarship.

In assigning interns to specific research projects or work groups, the programm will take into account their interests and allow them to practice specific skills, while also giving them the opportunity to expand their academic knowledge and gain new experience.

Depending on your personal specifications and previous experience, your activities at the ACDH-CH may focus on:

  • Project-Based Research: participating in one of the ACDH-CH’s current research projects that engage in humanities scholarship with the help of digital tools and cover a broad spectrum of areas of inquiry from linguistics, philology, history, media studies, musicology and many more. (Please specify in your application which current project(s) you are particularly interested in and why).
  • Technical Development: developing and improving software for DH research, data analysis, user interface design, often in relation to one or more of the research projects.
  • Outreach and Knowledge Transfer: supporting our networks, knowledge transfer and outreach team in their task of internal and public communication, event management and other outreach activities.

 

The ACDH-CH is looking in particular for applicants with backgrounds in philology (particularly German philology), linguistics, archaeology, political studies, literary studies, history, media studies, musicology, and similar disciplines for project-based research. If you want to focus on ICT work, some familiarity with XML and web technologies such as HTML5, CSS & Javascript would be helpful.

For more information about this program, please see the website.

How to apply

You can apply now for an internship in February 2023 by filling out the application form (in English or German).

Application deadline: 25 November 2022.

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CFP : Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries

2022年10月31日 19:32

The Local Time Machine project UrbanHistory4D organises a workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries and is calling for contributions. The workshop will take place on 27 – 28 March 2021 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Submission deadline: 30 November 2022.

Call for Papers

The organisers invite original contributions for presentation at the workshop in March 2023. The extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed and selected submissions will get the chance to publish a full article in the Springer CCIS series.

For the full Call for Papers and more information on the workshop as well as the submission procedure, please follow this link.

Workshop Description

Urban and architectural history are key areas in digital humanities and digital heritage. With respect to these research areas, digital repositories, data and research methods play an important role, especially when hosting visual media like photographs, paintings, or drawings, and last but not least physical and virtual models. Due to the wide field of possible research, different approaches, methods, and technologies have emerged – and are still emerging.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a full picture with regards to epistemics, technology and framework conditions. The organisers would like to invite contributions on theoretical and methodological issues, application scenarios and projects, as well as novel approaches and tools on the following topics:

  • Theory, Methods, and Systematization for Digital Humanities Research
    • Relevant data for architectural and urban history in digital archives and image repositories
    • Effects of the use of digital archives and image repositories on scholarly work
    • Concepts and projects for networking and cooperation
    • Possible research questions regarding objects, spaces, content or historical events
  • Data Handling and Data Schemes
    • 3D databases as a tool to support urban historical research
    • Metadata and paradata
    • Remote sensing approaches to support contextualization and intuitive access to data
    • Linked and semantic data related to urban historical research
    • The influence of knowledge of HCI on the design of historic models
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    • Use cases and best practices of applied machine learning and AI in digital humanities research
    • Novel approaches e.g., (semi-) automatic photogrammetric reconstruction of historical buildings from image databases
  • Visualization and Presentation
    • Projects and investigations from urban history concerned with visualizations and presentation of spatial and/or scholarly data
    • Research scenarios for scholars using visualizations of urban history data
    • Interdisciplinarity, e.g. intersections between digital cultural heritage and (sustainable) tourism studies
  • Education in Urban History
    • educational scenarios for teaching urban history supported by digital methods
    • approaches to employing large scale repositories for educational purposes in cultural history
    • the design of virtual experiences as e.g. city tours

Important Dates

30 November 2022: Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1000-2000 words, ~ 2-4 pages) in PDF format via EasyChair
15 January 2023: Notification
28 February 2023: Full paper submission
27-28 March 2023: Workshop in Munich

Workshop Organisers

  • Sander Münster, University of Jena
  • Aaron Pattee, University of Munich
  • Florian Niebling, University of Würzburg
  • Cindy Kröber, University of Jena

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Chaire de Professeur Junior en Humanités numériques à La Rochelle Université

2022年10月18日 19:54

La Rochelle Université met au concours une Chaire de Professeur Junior en Humanités numériques, à pourvoir au 1er mars 2023 . Date limite de candidature: 24 octobre 2022

Vous trouverez toutes les informations ici :https://www.univ-larochelle.fr/luniversite/recrutement/recrutement-dune-chaire-de-professeur-junior-2022/

 

Contacts

Contacts recherche : Cécile Chantraine Braillon (CRHIA) ; Antoine Doucet (L3i)

Email : cecile.chantraine_braillon@univ-lr.fr; antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr

Labos :

CRHIA: https://www.crhia.fr/

L3i: https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/

Pour toute question administrative : recrutement.enseignants@univ-lr.fr

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Médialab : Post-doc researcher – Horizon Europe PROJECT AUTHLIB

2022年9月30日 17:51

The project “Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response” (AUTHLIB), jointly led by the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and the médialab is hiring a Post-doc researcher for 24 months.

The AUTHLIB project’s basic premise is that liberal democracy faces not one challenge but many challenges and that therefore we must comprehensively consider the challenges that have emerged across and within countries in Europe in recent years. To do the AUTHLIB project carefully and systematically explores the varieties of illiberalism. Illiberalism has diverse ways of appealing to elites and to highly varied citizens, through narratives, programs and policies, emotional appeals, and institutional innovations, and it has developed methods of diffusion, each of which needs to be understood and mapped. In line with the varieties of illiberalism and their diverse diffusion channels the policies to mitigate and combat them need to be appropriate to the nature of the challenge in a given context.

The Sciences Po team will be responsible for the most extensive empirical data-collection work package in the project. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be expected to contribute mainly to the data collection and empirical analyses which maps ideological configurations and dimensions by analyzing party documents, speeches of public figures and social media activity of engaged citizens and by the conducting expert-surveys on the orientation of political actors. The research work will be aimed at the preparation of high-quality publications, drafting and submission of research reports to the European Commission, , and organization of social impact activities in co-creation with civil society and institutions in Hungary and at the European level.


Skills and qualification

  • PhD in Political Science, Sociology, Data Science or related disciplines (completed or to be defended within max 6 months after the application).
  • Excellent knowledge of R or Python programming
  • Very good skills in text and (optionally) network analysis methods
  • Experience in text-as-data methods (e.g., dictionary analyses, supervised machine learning, topic modeling, word embedding).
  • Interest in or some background knowledge in the study of democracy would be an asset, but is not required.
  • Excellent written and spoken language skills in English.
  • Strong interest in academic research, ideally proven through international publications and/or collaboration in research projects.
  • Ability to work effectively, both independently and collaboratively, in an international team.


Information on the position

  • The appointment is full-time and available from February 1, 2023 with a contract duration of 24 months.
  • Type of contract: Fixed-duration contract (CDD)
  • Gross salary (salaire brut): between €2,500 and € 3,000 per month depending on qualifications and experience
  • Partial contribution for Paris transportation card
  • Restaurant tickets


How to apply

Please send:

  • a cover letter outlining precisely the qualifications and skills that match the requirements for the position, and previous work experience carrying out similar tasks to those required here.
  • a CV
  • a writing sample (an article or PhD thesis)

to linda.amrani@sciencespo.fr by 5pm on December 4, 2022 .

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Appel à contributions : Assises de la recherche en cultures populaires et médiatiques, 2023

2022年9月16日 21:12

L’association internationale des chercheurs en « Littératures populaires et culture médiatique » (LPCM) organise en octobre 2023 la deuxième édition des Assises de la recherche en cultures populaires et médiatiques. 

Dans le prolongement de la première édition qui s’était tenue en 2018, cet événement propose de s’interroger sur les avenir(s) de la recherche dans ces domaines. Il vise à nouer un dialogue épistémologique et méthodologique entre les disciplines (sciences de l’information et de la communication, sociologie, études littéraires, études cinématographiques, études culturelles, histoire, économie, musicologie, humanités numériques…) et à favoriser la discussion entre des approches issues d’espaces géographiques et culturels différents.

Les interventions pourront ainsi porter sur des objets d’étude liés à la culture populaire et médiatique (littérature, bande dessinée, culture de jeunesse, presse, cinéma, télévision, radio, musique, jeux vidéo, jeux de rôle et jouets, figurines, illustrations, productions transmédiatiques).

Vous pouvez trouver l’appel à communications pour cette rencontre sur le site de l’association  : https://lpcm.hypotheses.org/23537

 

Dates : 12, 13 et 14 octobre 2023

Lieux : Nanterre et Paris

Date limite pour l’envoi des propositions : 1er décembre

Retour aux auteur·rices : mars 2023

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CfP: The EOSC Symposium

2022年9月16日 21:00

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and takes place this year in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14th-17th November 2022, as part of the calendar of events of the Czech presidency of the Council of the EU. This coincides with the Second EOSC Tripartite Event on the 15th of November 2022.

Over 500 stakeholders from ministries, policy makers, research performing organizations, service providers, research infrastructures and research communities across Europe and beyond are expected to attend the Symposium to reflect on the EOSC key achievements and strategic challenges and to identify priorities and concrete actions at European, national, and institutional level to speed up the EOSC implementation.

During the Symposium, there will be an opportunity to inspire the EOSC community by sharing your work or ideas with a talk on the following topics:

  • FAIR enabling practices
  • Use cases demonstrating the added value of EOSC
  • EOSC Core developments
  • EOSC Exchange & Data Federation developments
  • Federation of national Research Infrastructures & e-infrastructures in EOSC
  • Training & Skills for EOSC
  • Contributions of for profit partners to EOSC
  • Engaging stakeholders in EOSC


The talk should not exceed 7 minutes.

Note:

  • The symposium is an in person event (COVID permitting). If the event takes place, the talks are only accepted in person.
  • A fee is associated to the registration to the Symposium. The amount of the fee will be disclosed at the end of September when the official registration will open.


Who can apply?

  • Projects actively engaged in building EOSC (H2020, Horizon Europe & other projects)
  • National, regional and international initiatives aimed at boosting Open Science and FAIR principles
  • Thematic communities
  • Any individual interested and contributing to EOSC


Deadline

The call is open for applications until Friday 23 September 2022, 17:00 CEST.

The applications will be evaluated by the EOSC Symposium Programme Committee who will select the most relevant contributions to become part of the programme.

Applicants will be informed on the results of their application on the week of the 3rd of October.


More information

For more information about the EOSC Symposium, please visit the website.

The call for session is also open until Friday 23 September 2022, 17:00 CEST.

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CfP: Revue Humanités numériques, vol. 8 (2023)

2022年9月15日 22:00

Humanités numériques est une revue francophone publiée en libre accès et consacrée aux usages savants du numérique en sciences humaines et sociales. Éditée par l’association francophone Humanistica et diffusée sur la plateforme OpenEdition Journals, elle offre un lieu de réflexion, de débat scientifique et d’expression aux chercheurs et enseignants dont les travaux s’inscrivent dans ce champ. La revue s’adresse ainsi aux spécialistes des sciences humaines, des sciences sociales et des disciplines liées aux technologies de l’information, ainsi qu’à toutes celles et tous ceux qui se sentent concernés par les transformations numériques des savoirs.

Le numéro 8, constitué d’articles variés, sera publié au second semestre de 2023. Les auteurs et autrices qui souhaitent proposer un article à la revue sont invités à soumettre leurs propositions, sous la forme d’articles complets, sur le site OJS de la revue : http://revue-humanites-numeriques.humanisti.ca.

La longueur des articles n’est pas prédéfinie, même si nous considérons que 50 000 signes, espaces et notes comprises, représentent une limite courante. Les fichiers transmis doivent être au format ODT ou DOCX. Le respect des instructions aux auteurs,  disponibles sur le site de la revue, garantit une évaluation plus efficace et une meilleure préparation des textes. Les auteurs conservent leurs droits sur les articles, qui sont publiés sous une licence Creative Commons (CC BY).

Délao de soumission : 30 décembre 2022 au plus tard

Pour tout renseignement complémentaire, vous pouvez contacter le comité de direction d’Humanités numériques : revue-humanites-numeriques@humanisti.ca.

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CFP: Workshop on Information Visualization in the (Digital) Humanities

2022年8月24日 16:24

The Universität Graz organizes a two-day workshop on information visualization and the relation between researchers and the objects to be visualized. It will be held in hybrid format, with opportunities for the audience to attend virtually or in person in Graz. Submissions are welcome from all fields of (digital) humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies.

Abstract

Information visualization has become an integral part of the (digital) humanities and has undergone a rapid development during the last years. One of the advantages of this development is that the collection, analysis, and visualization of information take place no longer in separate processes, but are often undertaken by one and the same person or research group. This has drawn new attention to the usefulness and functionality in general and raises the question of the relationship between researchers and the objects of study. On the one hand, visualizations can provide useful insights and new perspectives. On the other hand, their applicability can be limited by the researcher’s scientific aims, academic education, and their technical capabilities. A conscious approach allows us to uncover the advantages and disadvantages of these relationships between the object of study and the researcher.

The Centre for Information Modelling in cooperation with the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz organizes a workshop to discuss this relation between researchers and the objects they visualize based on real use cases. Starting from an increased awareness of the relation between agent and object, the organizers want to reflect on the researcher’s point of view and how it practically influences the way we develop new visuals. Are they based on the information and its characteristic traits or rather on the needs of its further use? How do researchers influence their own visualizations and are they aware of their subjective approach?

To answer these questions, a jury of internationally recognised experts will be formed for the workshop, which will subject the submitted examples to a structural analysis and combine it with a corresponding discussion. The participants of the jury deliberately cover different areas (technical, academic, artistic) and thus enable a well-founded analysis of the effectiveness.

The workshop is aimed at experienced researchers as well as beginners who want to receive expert comments on their individual implementations. It is possible to address finished as well as works in progress from scholars in the (digital) humanities.

To learn more about the conditions of participation and the program: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail/article/workshop-on-information-visualization-in-the-digital-humanities/

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EPFL CDH Artist-in-Residence program opens call for second edition

2022年8月16日 20:22

The College of Humanities Artist-in-Residence program (CDH AiR) ‘Enter the Hyper-Scientific’ has launched its 2023 call, which will support up to four artists for three months of research and experimentation connecting art, humanities, science, and technology. This year’s edition will see a new partnership with the City of Lausanne.

Initiated by the EPFL College of Humanities (CDH) and amplified by EPFL Pavilions, the CDH AiR program is open to emerging and established Swiss and international artists interested in the intersection of art, media, science and technology.

Selected artists develop interdisciplinary projects and carry out their research in conjunction with EPFL laboratories, and resulting projects are featured in a public exhibition at EPFL Pavilions.

Following the success of the program’s 2022 edition, this year’s comprehensive residency opportunity welcomes projects in diverse fields, including visual and media arts, film, imaging and digital practices, experimental forms of sound research, experimental design, literature, and critical and speculative writing.

Thanks to a new partnership with the City of Lausanne, the selected artists will benefit from accommodation and working space in the housing cooperative La Meute, located in the new Plaines-du-Loup eco-district. This innovative and collective housing project, which brings together families, cultural figures, students, and asylum-seekers, will foster exchange between the artists and Lausanne’s rich art scene.

Enter the Hyper-Scientific

The goal of the 2023 program, ‘Enter the Hyper-Scientific’, is to explore the scientific landscape at EPFL through artistic works. By facilitating encounters between artists and scientists from different disciplines, the program aims to establish a dynamic, critical, and inspiring platform for propelling aesthetic investigations at the intersection of art, technology, science, and the humanities.

Artists may select one of three tracks:

Open Transdisciplinary. This track invites artists and practitioners from all disciplines to propose projects that investigate the fluid boundaries between art, humanities, science, and technology.

Scientific Imaging. In collaboration with the EPFL Center for Imaging, this track is for artists interested in imaging technologies, CGI, and digital imaging methods. Proposals in the field of data visualization are welcome.

Environmental Transformation. In collaboration with CLIMACT, the joint EPFL-UNIL Center for Climate Impact and Action, this track invites visual artists (including creators active in the performing arts) and designers to engage with themes related to climate change.

Applications (in English) must be received by October 3, 2022. Please visit the program website for full application instructions. A selection committee including senior members of CDH and EPFL Pavilions, plus external jurors from the cultural and artistic sector, will assess each proposal.

For further information, please visit the program website at https://go.epfl.ch/CDH-AiR-call2023, or email info.CDH-AiR@epfl.ch.

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Université Paris-Nanterre : Chargé.e d’études – Humanités numériques / Critical heritage studies

2022年8月16日 17:34

Le poste s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet ANR COLLABORA, qui vise à développer une réflexion théorique, empirique et politique à propos de plateformes numériques contributives de création, documentation et valorisation des patrimoines. Cette étude se concentre sur la problématique des controverses patrimoniales.

Le poste est rattaché au laboratoire Dicen-Idf (Dispositifs d’Information et de Communication à l’Ere Numérique – Paris, Ile-de-France), une unité de recherche multi-tutelle en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication entre le Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, l’Université Gustave Eiffel et l’Université Paris-Nanterre.

La personne recrutée travaillera sous la responsabilité scientifique de Marta Severo, coordinatrice du projet, en collaboration avec l’équipe du projet ANR et avec les chercheurs de DICEN-IdF impliqués dans le projet.

Mission

La personne recrutée devra conduire une étude préparatoire finalisée à identifier les sources numériques pertinentes (données du web, des médias sociaux et documentaires) pour analyser une controverse patrimoniale. Elle sera amené.e à traiter des sources de données variées et proposer un protocole d’analyse allant de la collecte à la fouille jusqu’à la visualisation de données. Cette étude concernera le cas des éléments supprimés de la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, mais la personne recrutée pourra proposer également d’autres controverses patrimoniales venant de son expérience professionnelle ou personnelle.

La personne recrutée travaillera sur trois missions principales :

  • la construction d’un corpus identifiant les sources de données pertinentes pour analyser la controverse étudiée (bases de données institutionnelles, médias sociaux, Wikipédia, presse, etc.)
  • l’analyse de corpus de données récoltées à travers des méthodes quali-quantitatives. Selon le cas, l’analyse pourra s’appuyer sur des méthodes numériques, sur des méthodes statistiques plus classiques ou sur de l’observation ethnographique numérique ;
  • la restitution de l’analyse sous différentes formes (rapport, visualisation, écriture d’article scientifique.

La personne recrutée sera associée à toutes les valorisations liées à son enquête.

Profil

Le candidat ou la candidate dispose des connaissances, savoir-faire et aptitudes suivants :

  • Connaissance des méthodes de collecte et fouille de données du web
  • Connaissance des bases de données documentaires patrimoniales
  • Connaissance des méthodes d’analyse quantitative
  • Connaissance des outils et technologies de traitement des données (langage de programmation Python ; logiciel analyses statistiques R)
  • Connaissance des formats de données (XML, Json)
  • Compétences dans le domaine des humanités numériques (bases de données relationnelles, data visualisation);
  • Intérêt pour les études patrimoniales et notamment les critical heritage studies
  • Bac+5 en humanités numériques ou informatique documentaire ou programmation web
  • Expérience dans l’accompagnement de travaux scientifiques orientés fouille et traitement de données du web  à des fins de recherche scientifique, attestée par la participation à des projets et éventuellement des publications.
  • Autonomie, rigueur, esprit critique
  • Esprit de synthèse et capacité rédactionnelle
  • Maîtrise de l’anglais, à l’écrit et à l’oral ;


Modalités du contrat

Le contrat d’ingénieur/chargé d’études commencera en octobre 2022, pour une durée de 6 mois. Le ou la candidat.e recruté.e sera hébergé.e au laboratoire Dicen-IdF, basé à l’université Paris Nanterre. Une partie de l’activité pourra être réalisée en télétravail.

La rémunération 3000 € brut mensuel.

L’abonnement Navigo est pris en charge à 50%. Les frais de mission (terrain, conférences) et le matériel sont pris en charge pendant la durée du contrat.

Candidature

Merci de faire parvenir votre dossier de candidature (CV, lettre de motivation, exemple des travaux précédents) par courriel à l’adresse anrcollabora@gmail.com avant le vendredi 2 septembre 2022.

Prise de poste : 1er octobre 2022.

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Interdisciplinary CROSS program invites proposals on the theme of ‘crisis’

2022年8月2日 16:48

The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS) program in EPFL’s College of Humanities is now accepting joint project proposals from researcher at EPFL and the University of Lausanne on the theme of ‘crisis’.

The CROSS program aims to support research projects that deal with current issues in society and technology, and that bring together EPFL and UNIL. Through an annual call for proposals, the program provides competitive grants to support new seed research endeavors that have the potential to grow into full-scale research projects.

The topic for the 2023 CROSS call is: crisis. Up to six grants of up to CHF 60,000 per project will be distributed.

Candidates are invited to apply on the CROSS website by August 25.

Technology to the rescue?

It seems that the word ‘crisis’ appears in media headlines almost daily, whether in reference to the climate and natural disasters, political conflict and humanitarian aid, digital security and privacy, finance and socioeconomics, or even our physical and mental health. When a problem is elevated to the status of a crisis, it is often due to both its extremity and its urgency, necessitating immediate decision-making and action.

Because crises often develop at the convergence of several different factors, an interdisciplinary approach helps to better understand why crises occur, and to develop solutions. The 2023 edition of the CROSS program therefore calls upon researchers at EPFL and the University of Lausanne to submit proposals for joint projects that bring the natural sciences and engineering together with the social sciences and humanities to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.

For example, how can different technologies be used for crisis management, and what are their limits? Do emerging technologies have the potential to create their own crises, and if so, how can we identify and avoid them? How have societies historically resolved crises, and how does this knowledge impact the crises that we are living – and creating – today?

A multi-disciplinary perspective is also key to perceiving the nature of crisis itself: how does a phenomenon go from being a problem to a crisis? How can the incremental nature of scientific research and innovation be reconciled with the urgency of a crisis? How are data and information – or disinformation – about crises produced and disseminated?

Deadline: 25 August 2022.
Notification of results: October 2022.
More information: https://go.epfl.ch/CROSS-2023-en
Contact: cross@epfl.ch

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Call for papers: Historical documents and automatic text recognition

2022年7月21日 19:55

The open access, peer-reviewed Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH) is currently inviting paper submissions for its special issue, “Historical documents and automatic text recognition”.

The special issue will bring together in one single volume several experiments, projects and reflections related to automatic text recognition on historical documents.

Many projects now include automatic text acquisition in their data processing chain. The integration of this technology into increasingly powerful processing chains has led to an automation of tasks that affects the role of the researcher in the textual production process. This new data-intensive practice makes it urgent to collect and harmonise the corpora necessary for the constitution of training sets, but also to make them available for exploitation. This issue will be an opportunity to propose articles combining philological and technical questions to make a scientific assessment of the use of automatic text recognition for ancient documents, its results, its contributions and the new practices induced by its use in the process of editing and exploring texts.

To address these issues, the following three axes are proposed:

– Axis 1: Sources, constitution and sharing of training data.

– Axis 2: Machine learning

– Axis 3: Feedback and data exploitation

Submission information

  • The papers are expected to be between 6 and 8 pages for short paper or between 12 and 15 pages for long papers.
  • The articles must present original and previously unpublished work.
  • All submissions must be in english
  • All the articles submitted are subject to blind peer-review in accordance with the journal’s editorial policies.
  • Submission deadline: 1 November 2022.
  • Submissions should be made via the  JDMDH platform.

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Call for special issue for the Journal of Digital History: Digital Tools

2022年7月14日 17:12

This special issue of the Journal of Digital History, to be published in the fall of 2023, welcomes contributions that introduce and discuss digital toolkits for exploring historic source materials, be they sonic, textual, visual, or audiovisual, by October 31, 2022.

In line with the journal’s publication standards, the toolkits should be open source and available in Jupyter Notebooks. Preferably, datasets used should also be open and available for being uploaded on the journal’s website. Contributions that take advantage of the journal’s multi-layered structure for narrating and commenting on code, including analytical reflections on the possibilities and limitations of the analytical tools used, are especially welcome. Proposals for methods that combine multiple media modalities—from 3D to text, sound, and moving images are invited. Finally, contributions that provide critical reflections on the role of digital tools in producing new (historic) knowledge, and/or strive to historize the use of digital methods among historians, are encouraged.

Authors should locate proposed submissions in a broader methodological and/or historical context and express a pedagogic interest in explaining, illustrating, and untangling the functionality of the proposed methods. The digital tools do not have to be fully programmed by the authors themselves—extending and reusing existing open-source code is naturally acceptable. However, the particular assemblage of code and scripts in the toolkits should be unique and display a novel level of complexity, with a scientific and/or methodological contextualization.

The topic of contributions may include—but are not limited to:

– Textual, visual, audiovisual and/or sonic toolkits for exploring historic source materials, including discussions on the challenges and opportunities that such tools bring with them.
– New methods of using AI and machine learning to analyze, annotate or extract information from historic sources, including techniques such as natural language processing, speech to text, facial/object detection, etc.
– Toolkits that aim at preparing, organizing, and curating datasets.
– Reflections on the process of (re-)training and adapting machine learning techniques for historic purposes.
– Comparative investigations of the technical workings of different methods for analyzing digitized historic sources.
– The history of the use of digital tools among historians, including hands-on illustrations of the evolution and development of digital tools and techniques.

Abstracts of a maximum of 500 words should be emailed to Pelle Snickars and Maria Eriksson no later than October 31, 2022. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not ensure final publication since all articles must go through the journal’s usual review process. If you have any questions or want to discuss a proposal, please contact the special issue editors at jdh.admin@uni.lu.

Learn more or submit an abstract here.

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Call: Journal of Visual Culture Early Career Researcher Prize

2022年7月7日 19:05

The International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture are inviting submissions for its Early Career Researcher Prize by November 1, 2022.

The Journal of Visual Culture is an international, refereed journal and is published three times a year – April, August and December – by SAGE Publications. The Journal welcomes provocative, innovative analyses of visual culture, especially those that challenge conventional categories or modes of inquiry. To address the broad interests of its readers, the Journal supports critically informed, original interpretations that both illuminate a specific phenomenon, and yield insights for social, political, philosophical or aesthetic concerns shaping global visual cultures.

For its Early Career Researcher Prize, current doctoral students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original, unpublished essays of 5000 to 8000 words on any topic related to visual culture. The prize-winning essay/s will be considered for publication in the journal, pending revisions advised by the committee and the journal’s editorial collective.

Submission details:

In addition to an abstract of approximately 100 to 150 words and 5-8 keywords, submissions should include a brief biographical statement (approximately 200 words) indicating graduate institution, degree status, and current contact information. Manuscripts should be submitted in Word or Google Doc format as a single running document (abstract, keywords, biography, essay) by November 1, 2022 to VCEssayPrize@gmail.com. View further details on the IAVC website.

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Cornell University : 2023-24 Society for the Humanities Fellowships

2022年6月27日 16:55

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars whose research projects reflect on the 2023-24 theme of Crossing. Up to six Fellows will be appointed. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive $56,000.

“Crossing begins by opening a possibility: to meet or to pass by, to encounter in a spirit of collaboration or conflict. Like an X on a map, crossing marks both a place and a process, an intersection and a journey…”

Fellows spend their time in research and writing during the residential fellowship, and are required to participate in a weekly Fellows Seminar workshopping each other’s projects and participating in lively discussions on readings based on the yearly theme. Fellows also teach one small seminar during their fellowship year appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Fellows are encouraged to experiment with both the content and the method of their seminar particularly as it relates to their current research.

The nature of this fellowship year is social and communal—Fellows forge connections outside the classroom and the lecture hall by sharing meals following the weekly seminar and attending post-lecture receptions and other casual events throughout the year. Fellows live and work in Ithaca, NY, and are expected to be in their offices on campus frequently. All applicants for Society Fellowships should share in this commitment to creating a supportive and intellectually stimulating community.

Qualifications

Fellows should be working on topics related to the 2023-24 theme of Crossing. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines. 

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2022. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student. International scholars are welcome to apply, contingent upon visa eligibility.

Application Procedures

The following application materials must be submitted via AJO FELLOWSHIP #21965. Any other method of applying will not be accepted

  1. A curriculum vitae
  2. A one-page abstract describing the research project the applicant would like to pursue during the term of the fellowship (no more than 300 words)
  3. A detailed statement of the research project (1,000 – 2,000 words). Applicants may also include a one-page bibliography of the most essential materials to the project.
  4. A course proposal for a seminar related to the applicant’s research. Seminars meet two hours per week for one semester and enrollment is limited to fifteen advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The course proposal should consist of:
    1. A brief course description suitable for the University course catalog (50-125 words)
    2. A detailed course proposal (up to 300 words)
    3. A list of the essential texts for the course
  5. One scholarly paper (no more than 35 pages in length)
  6. Two letters of recommendation from senior colleagues to whom candidates should send their research proposal and teaching proposal. Letters of recommendation should include an evaluation of the candidate’s proposed research and teaching statements. Please ask referees to submit their letters directly through the application link. Letters must be submitted on or before September 20, 2022.

 

The deadline to apply is September 20, 2022.
Awards will be announced by the end of December 2022.

For further information

Email: humctr@cornell.edu

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Job: DARIAH’s Board of Directors is looking for a new member

2022年6月16日 19:48

The DARIAH research infrastructure is recruiting its new Director (M/F), to start on January 1, 2023.

This is a half-time position (0.5 FTE), which will allow candidates to stay connected to the research world. The successful candidate will join the Board of Directors, along with the two existing Directors. Each director is appointed for a three-year term, renewable once.

You can find more information here.

The closing date for applications is: Sunday, 11 September 2022.

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