Call for Papers: Bioethics and Philosophical Health - JECP

Submission Deadline: Thursday, 31 December 2026

Contemporary bioethics has developed sophisticated tools for ethical decision-making. Yet it often operates within assumptions that reduce life to physiological viability. Ethical questions are frequently treated as matters of procedure and consent. Meanwhile, patients and clinicians face questions that exceed these frameworks. What makes a life worth living? How does illness disrupt or reveal meaning? What forms of care support not just survival but existential coherence? These questions call for a deeper engagement between bioethics and the philosophy of existence.

Despite growing interest in person-centred care, conceptual tools for clinical evaluation remain limited. Frameworks for assessing philosophical sense-making and existential orientation are underdeveloped. The Philosophical Health perspective addresses this gap by going beyond physical and psychological health. It asks how we cultivate meaningful lives through bodily experience, self-understanding, relational belonging, engagement with possibility, purposeful action, and philosophical reflection. The concept draws on the ancient tradition of bios philosophikos. It proposes that healthcare should attend not only to pathology but to the philosophical dimensions of human existence.

This special issue creates space for exploring how philosophical health can deepen bioethical inquiry as an embodied ethics of the good life. It challenges reductive assumptions and fosters practices that support purpose and meaning in lives, even when disrupted by health challenges. We welcome transdisciplinary contributions from philosophers, bioethicists, clinicians, medical humanists, and social scientists. Topics include how philosophical frameworks enrich clinical practice, how healthcare shapes existential experience, how the 4E cognitive approach may inform bioethical theory, and how dialogical methodologies can be integrated into institutional contexts. The issue aims to rediscover bioethics as a genuinely philosophical and existential enterprise, that is as bios ethikos.

Topics of interest for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

• Philosophical frameworks for enriching or transforming bioethical practice and clinical evaluation;
• Philosophical dimensions of clinical encounters: embodiment, selfhood, temporality, and meaning-making;
• Critiques of the reduction of ethical deliberation to procedure, regulation, or risk management;
• How healthcare practices shape or constrain the philosophical dimensions of human existence;
• The 4E cognitive approach (embodied, extended, enactive, embedded) applied to bioethical theory and practice;
• Integration of philosophical inquiry and dialogical methods into clinical or institutional contexts;
• Empirical and conceptual engagement with the Philosophical Health methodology, including SMILE_PH;
• Cross-cultural and planetary perspectives on philosophical health and the good life;
• Methodological innovations in clinical philosophy, philosophical counselling, and reflective practice.

More details here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652753/call-for-papers/si-2026-000772

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Dr Luis de Miranda

Associate Professor (Docent) in Bioethics, Uppsala University

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies
Associated Researcher, Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics,

Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University

https://www.luisdemiranda.com/

My source: Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Follow the list on Twitter @PhilosL. Follow the Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhilos

Total eclipse: The terminator moves faster than you think

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Between the new and full moon the terminator - the line demarcating what is lit from what is dark changes all the time. This is imperceptible with the naked eye.	A telescope at low magnification reveals the moon in all its glory. At a higher power with manual control you have to keep moving to keep up, as the moon other-worldly slides out of view.
What of the terminator between poverty and wealth; ultrapoverty and ultrawealthy?	It is plain to see and so - easy to deny; but their instruments are hopeless, they watch indoors, fixed on their screens.

Total Solar Eclipse – August 12, 2026

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar) 

Previously: 'terminator' 

Leapspace iii - References ii

Regards the two other references listed by Leapspace in the previous post:

Jones, P. (2009) Socio-technical structures, 4Ps and hodges' model. Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch011 

Jones, P. (2011) Socio-technical structures, 4Ps and hodges' model. Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-561-2.ch215 

The doi links above lead to a page where to read the 'View Full Text HTML', or 'PDF' you need a login. This suggests a paywall(?), but the paper can be found here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1842543&rec=1&srcabs=886584&alg=7&pos=3

These are not the original reference or title:

Jones, P. (2009) Socio-Technical Structures, the Scope of Informatics and Hodges’ model, IN, Staudinger, R., Ostermann, H., Bettina Staudinger, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Nursing Informatics and Socio-Technical Structures, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 11, pp. 160-174.

I am unable to check fully, but it appears in 2011, the paper was republished in another collection. It is nice to have a 'bovine' experience, with a lesson about copyright, open access, and predatory publishing. Alteration of titles is bound to result in repetition, confounding the accuracy of publication metrics and indices?

I am not going to add the second reference to the blog's bibliography.

In Marrakech how can I forget "A is for ..."!

The Arabian world gave us algebra and algorithm and much more besides, as star gazers quickly find. There are many beautiful Arabic names for stars. At the UM6P Conference venue there were some wall displays, highlighting the major contribution of Al Khawarizmi:

Earlier this month I picked up The New York Review of Books, spotting a review of four books (2009-2025) on mathematics, including algebra by Paul Lockhart.

Dan Rockmore. In Defence of Algebra, The New York Review of Books. April 9th, 2026, Vol. LXXIII, No. 6. pp.28-30.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/in-defense-of-algebra-paul-lockhart/

Seminar: 'MedGemma and HAI-DEF: A family of open models'

 

Dear Madam/Sir, 

We are glad to announce the following seminar: 

MedGemma and HAI-DEF: A family of open models by Andrew Sellergren, Software Engineer & Researcher at Google.

Save the date: 

Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 4:30 PM (CEST) 
Aula Pitagora - MT11 (Cubo 30B), Unical 
Hybrid Format / Live Streaming 

Link: https://dub.sh/medgemma2026

See also: https://goo.gle/medgemma

MedGemma Technical Report

My source: francesco.calimeri AT unical.it

Presentation: 'An example of open research sharing Hodges’ Health Career Model'

From: Ulster University Open Research Conference 2026 

Simms, V., Jacobs, N., Magee, J., De Ornellas, K., Mollik, E., Kernohan, W. G., Leacock, J., Akter, J., Sempey, C., Beech, S. E., Naz Asif, R., Yap, L. K., & Miller, K. (2026, Jan 16). Ulster University Open Research Conference 2026: Conference Speaker Abstracts. Ulster University. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.21251/0d7780ce-ce97-468f-b5d5-69201ca90b20

Speaker: Professor George Kernohan 

School or Department: School of Nursing and Paramedic Science Ulster University 

Email: wg.kernohan AT ulster.ac.uk 

The area(s) of open research talk relates to: 
  Practice as research; Open data/ Open code 

Talk Title: An example of open research sharing Hodges’ Health Career Model 

Abstract: 

This paper examines a blog post [see below, pj], “Thinking about a comprehensive framework for dementia,” as a case study illustrating the integration of open research practices within dementia palliative care research. The post introduces the Hodges’ Health Career Model— a four-domain conceptual framework encompassing biomedical, psychological, social, and policy perspectives— to articulate the multidimensional nature of dementia and inform care planning. As an openly accessible research communication, the blog contributes to transparent and inclusive knowledge exchange beyond traditional academic channels. 

The blog exemplifies practice-as-research, translating conceptual development from theory into a form of scholarly exposition that invites engagement from practitioners, policymakers, carers, and people living with dementia. It forms part of a wider programme of work in which the research team openly documents methods, emerging findings, and reflections across scoping reviews, surveys, and service case studies hosted on the same platform. These materials complement peer-reviewed open access outputs, including open publications. 

The project demonstrates alignment with open research principles through prospective protocol registration: the scoping review protocol is publicly available on PROSPERO. The team’s prior work on blogging as a mechanism for knowledge mobilisation strengthens the methodological coherence of using this medium to disseminate conceptual frameworks and preliminary insights.

Although the blog does not itself provide underlying datasets or analytic code, it outlines methodological approaches that could facilitate future open data practices, particularly in qualitative and mixed-methods research. Overall, the case illustrates a pragmatic and pluralistic adoption of open research methods across dissemination, protocol transparency, and public engagement, offering a model for enhancing accessibility and reproducibility in dementia palliative care research.

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Title: “Thinking about a comprehensive framework for dementia”

Author: Professor George Kernohan

Date: 7 November 2019

Link: https://pallcare4dementia.com/thinking-about-a-comprehensive-framework-for-dementia/

Seeking postdoctoral researchers for ERC project IDENTITY ERROR

Dear Colleagues
Please help connect people in your network with this ERC-funded postdoc opportunity in our department.

"The project will combine computational modelling and group-based experiments to scale individual models of epistemic vulnerability (i.e., belief in misinformation/conspiracy theories) to a social level."

Many thanks,

Mike
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The ERC-funded IDENTITY ERROR project is hiring 2 Postdoctoral Researchers (hosted in the Psychology Department in UL). The project will combine computational modelling and group-based experiments to scale individual models of epistemic vulnerability (i.e., belief in misinformation/conspiracy theories) to a social level. There is a computational post that will require some knowledge of network analysis and/or agent-based modelling, and a social psychology post that will require experience conducting behavioral experiments. We are a supportive group of interdisciplinary researchers, and we do not expect either postdoc to have full knowledge of these methods. We only expect a willingness to learn and a curious attitude. Further details on each post can be found at the links below. The closing dates for applications are October 28th (computational postdoc) and November 3rd (psychology postdoc). 

Each post is estimated to last for 3 years. Contact paul.maher AT ul.ie for enquires.

Computational post: https://my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheulrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=079248

Social Psychology post: https://my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheulrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=079308
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My source: Mike Quayle, Mike.Quayle AT UL.IE
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=simsoc
SIMSOC Digest - 15 Oct 2025 to 16 Oct 2025 (#2025-169)

UK Evening Symposium: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - May 14th 2025

 UK Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2025

Wednesday May 14th 2025 from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Location

This will be a virtual event using the Zoom video-conferencing platform. 

Outline Programme

6.00 p.m. (UK time): 'Arrival' and Introduction

Chair: Prof. Max Bramer (SGAI)

6.10 p.m. to 6.40 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Anna Fensel (Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) BIO

Knowledge graphs, FAIR principles and generative AI for scientific discoveries in agri-food

6.40 p.m. to 6.50 p.m. Discussion and Questions

6.50 p.m. to 7.20 p.m.

Dr. Anelia Kurteva (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK) BIO

Responsible AI through responsible data management and governance enabled by knowledge graphs

7.20 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Discussion and Questions

7.30 p.m. Close

Please see links, e.g. 'programme' at: http://ukkdd.org.uk/2025/

My source: BCS-SGAI list

Care concept engineering - anyone? [ concepts-maths ii/iii ]

"Concepts are the building blocks for thought, and from Socrates onward one of the goals of philosophers in the Western tradition has been to analyse important philosophical concepts like knowledge, justice, beauty and freedom. For some, the motive was just to get clearer about these fundamental units of thought. For others, the goal was more ambitious. Not content to analyse our concepts, these philosophers hoped to improve them - an old project that has recently acquired a new name: "conceptual engineering". p.98.

"Well, good conceptual engineers, like good engineers in other domains, should start with as much information as possible about which options have already been tried and how well they have worked. If we are going to build a better concept of knowledge, or justice, or moral permissibility, or freedom, we would do well to begin by seeing how these concepts (or their closest analogs) are constructed in cultures around the world, and how well existing varieties work. We would also do well not to restrict ourselves to the millennia old method of cases in studying concepts. Over the last century, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists and neuro-scientists have developed many new methods and technologies for studying concepts. Philosophers who are serious about conceptual engineering should embrace these methods." p.100.

Stich, S., Machery, E., A Possible Future For Philosophy, The Philosopher's Magazine, 1st Quarter 2018. 80: 98-100. 
https://www.stephenstich.com/_files/ugd/0ad9d7_2679b985ce0e43b693d197c775c08e46.pdf

You can call it [conceptual engineering] whatever you wish; in nursing, concept analysis is well established for example. However described, you may find that Hodges' model useful. If you can demonstrate that Hodges' model is not suited to the task, due to its undoubted Cartesian credentials (baggage'), then this would also be progress.

There are no doubt many previous posts this one can be connected to. Most immediately is:

Rediscovering nursing ...? [ concepts-maths i/iii ]

- to follow iii.

This issue of TPM is long gone. In the clear out, I'd drafted these posts.

Learning Health Systems/AcademyHealth 2024 SUPPLEMENT now available

 Dear Readers of Learning Health Systems,

We are pleased to announce the first-ever Supplement Issue of Learning Health Systems! 

 

You may view the complete Supplement online at:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23796146/2024/8/S1

 

Guest Editors for the 2024 Supplement were: 

Lucy A. Savitz,  Sarah M. Greene,  Michael K. Gould,  Harold S. Luft

 

The LHS/AH Supplement is the result of a collaboration and memo of understanding between Learning Health Systems (University of Michigan), AcademyHealth, and John Wiley & Sons.

 

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Guest Commentary

The Right Stuff:  Getting the right data at the right time and using that data to drive evidence-based practice and policy

 

Lucy A. Savitz,  Sarah M. Greene,  Michael K. Gould,  Harold S. Luft

May 27, 2024

 

Experience Report

Leveraging data to support health equity in an integrated delivery and finance system

 

Jane Kogan, Joan Eichner, Hyagriv Simhan, Erin Dalton, Alex Jutca, Beth Quinn, Jennifer Chaney, Anna Patterson, Donna Keyser

April 15, 2024

Continued...

10th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference: July 2-4, 2025

Save the date!

As a scholar who is active in Threshold Concepts, you may be interested to know that the biennial conference on Threshold Concepts will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada on July 2-4, 2025. More information on the call for proposals and conference logistics will be available in the late spring. But for now, follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @ThresholdConcep and join our Linkedin group (Threshold Concepts Conference 2025) to get the most up to date information.

Conference Invitation

Dear Colleagues,

As you may know, the biennial conference on Threshold Concepts will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada on July 2-4, 2025. As a scholar who has been active with Threshold Concepts in the last few years, we hope that you will consider submitting a proposal and attending the conference. The call for proposals will be open October 15 – December 20, 2024. 

Please check out the conference information on our website (https://thresholdconcepts.home.blog/) and reach out if you have any questions.

All the best,

Julie

Email: julie.rattray AT durham.ac.uk

Prof. Julie Rattray
Professor of Higher Education and Director of EDI at School of Education
Chair of Durham Disabled Staff Network
Durham University
Confluence Building
Stockton Road
Durham
DH1 3LE

 

Special Issue: Learning Health Systems - Computable Biomedical Knowledge

Learning Health Systems

A unique Special Issue of the Learning Health Systems journal has just been published.  It focuses on Computable Biomedical Knowledge (CBK). 

We invite you to view the table of contents for Volume 7, Issue 4 shown below.

Read the issue at - 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23796146/2023/7/4

 GUEST EDITOR COMMENTARY

Transforming health and well‐being through publishing computable biomedical knowledge (CBK)

 

Güneş Koru

EXPERIENCE REPORT

Modelling clinical narrative as computable knowledge: The NICE computable implementation guidance project

 

Philip Scott, Michaela Heigl, Charles McCay, Polly Shepperdson, Elia Lima-Walton, Elisavet Andrikopoulou, Klara Brunnhuber, Gary Cornelius, Susan Faulding, Ben McAlister, Shaun Rowark, Matthew South, Mark R. Thomas, Justin Whatling, John Williams, Jeremy C. Wyatt, Felix Greaves

POLICY ANALYSIS

Which computable biomedical knowledge objects will be regulated? Results of a UK workshop discussing the regulation of knowledge libraries and software as a medical device

 

Jeremy C. Wyatt, Philip Scott, Johan Ordish, Matthew South, Mark Thomas, Caroline Jones, Sue Lacey-Bryant, on behalf of workshop participants

RESEARCH REPORT

A novel method for continuous measurements of clinical practice guideline adherence

 

Kees C.W.J. Ebben, Cornelis D. de Kroon, Channa E. Schmeink, Olga L. van der Hel, Thijs van Vegchel, Arturo Moncada-Torres, Ignace H.J.T. de Hingh, Jurrian van der Werf

COMPUTABLE KNOWLEDGE PUBLICATIONS

Striking a match between FHIR‐based patient data and FHIR‐based eligibility criteria

 

Brian S. Alper, Joanne Dehnbostel, Khalid Shahin, Neeraj Ojha, Gopal Khanna, Christopher J. Tignanelli

Evidence Hub: A place to exchange medical knowledge and form communities

 

Kenny Hong, Druvinka Bandaranayake, Guy Tsafnat

Sync for Genes Phase 5: Computable artifacts for sharing dynamically annotated FHIR‐formatted genomic variants

 

Robert Dolin, Bret S. E. Heale, Rohan Gupta, Carla Alvarez, Justin Aronson, Aziz Boxwala, Shaileshbhai R. Gothi, Ammar Husami, James Shalaby, Lawrence Babb, Alex Wagner, Srikar Chamala

A computable biomedical knowledge object for calculating in‐hospital mortality for patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction

 

Rosemarie Sadsad, Gema Ruber, Johnson Zhou, Steven Nicklin, Guy Tsafnat

An application of computable biomedical knowledge to transform patient centered scheduling

 

Namita Azad, Carolyn Armstrong, Corinne Depue, Timothy J. Crimmins, Jonathan C. Touson

LIST OF REVIEWERS

Thanks to our peer reviewers

My source: 
Email from Kathleen Young
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Learning Health Systems

  Also noticed:
Bonten T, Rauwerdink A, Wyatt J, Kasteleyn M, Witkamp L, Riper H, van Gemert-Pijnen L, Cresswell K, Sheikh A, Schijven M, Chavannes N, EHealth Evaluation Research Group Online Guide for Electronic Health Evaluation Approaches: Systematic Scoping Review and Concept Mapping Study. J Med Internet Res 2020;22(8):e17774 URL: https://www.jmir.org/2020/8/e17774 DOI: 10.2196/17774

23rd UKSS International Conference: Systems: Transition to a Sustainable World

23rd UKSS International Conference

Systems: Transition to a Sustainable World

15th of September 2023 in the Richmond Building, University of Portsmouth

The Conference programme for the 15th of September is as follows: UKSS 2023 Conference programme Friday the 15th of September Time Activity 10.00 – 10.30 a.m. Arrival and registration, Reception, The Richmond Building 10.30 – 10.45 a.m. Welcome by the UKSS President, Professor Stowell, Room 201 10.45 – 11.45 p.m. Keynote presentation, Ray Ison, Read More …

I thought I had posted this news, but it seems not. I'm pleased to do so now and have only recently  booked. As above, the conference is for one day and costs £25.00 while free for UKSS members, which will make you a UKSS member if not already. You can attend in-person or virtually.

As per 2018 when I presented Hodges' model in Portsmouth, I plan to attend physically, visiting Oxford on the way down.

Reflexivity - c/o Rose G. (2012)

 

Visual Methodologies

"In the social sciences, reflexivity is claimed to be unnecessary for work that defines itself as scientific. Thus the practitioners of content analysis and semiology - discussed in Chapter 5 and 6 here - do not engage in reflexivity, since both, for different reasons, claim their work is scientific. However, reflexivity is a crucial aspect of work that participates in the so-called cultural turn. There, reflexivity is an attempt to resist the universalising claims of academic knowledge and to insist that academic knowledge, like all others knowledges, is situated and partial. Reflexivity is thus about the position of the critic, about the effects that position has on the knowledge that the critic produces, about the relation between the critic and the people or materials they deal with, and about the social effects of the critic's work." p.183. 

Rose, Gillian (2012). Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (3rd ed.). London: Sage. PB.  [Now in 5th edition.] Image - Amazon.

I wonder if the fifth edition has revised content on photography and other content, such is the pace of change?

See also: Being Reflective and Reflexive

'reflexive'

'Anthropologically strange'

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"Phenomenology focuses on the inter-subjective constitution of the social world and everyday social life. Schütz (1964), in a seminal essay on 'The Stranger', shows how a social group has its own cultural pattern of life - folkways, mores, laws, habits, customs, etiquette, fashions and so on - that, as far as its members are concerned, are taken for granted, are habitual and almost automatic. Schütz's stranger provides a model for the ethnographer using participant observation. The ethnographer tries to treat the familiar world of 'members' as anthropologically strange, to expose its social and cultural construction. This is particularly demanding when a researcher is studying a group with which he or she is familiar, but represents an ideal attitude of mind for the researcher to pursue nevertheless." p.246.

Researching Society and Culture

"Anthropological strangeness: The art or mental trick of making a social setting and behaviour within it appear as if the observer is encountered as a stranger. If applied to mundane 'taken-for-granted' events, this can lead to unusual and original insights." p.556, (Glossary).

This ethnographic idea 'strangeness' provides an extension to the role of Hodges' model as a template, a clean slate across disciplines, settings and contexts. A means to 'reset' conceptually, to clear the mind, mindset, attitudes and start afresh.

Walsh, D. (2012). Doing Ethnography. (Chapter 14. pp.245-262) In. Researching Society and Culture, Seale, C. (Ed.). 3rd edition. London: SAGE.

See also:

Schuetz, A. (1944). The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology. American Journal of Sociology, 49(6), 499–507. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2771547

Another book student bound.

'Process-based art' in Hodges' model

Process-based art appears to confirm my association of 'process' with the sciences care (knowledge) domain in Hodges' model. Hopefully, we all have the opportunity to confirm this as small children #PaintOnTheHandsFeet 

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“I layer the lidocaine [the numbing agent used by dentists before uncomfortable procedures] onto the white,” explains Estep, “which has been painted around the edges with black paint.” At this point he takes the canvas off of the stretcher and, in a nod to his former work as an art technician, restretches it, but this time disturbing the still-wet borders and creating smudgy mistakes as he loses all feeling in his hands. This audacious dulling of the senses raises questions of authorship, randomness and the very idea of painting – while also creating beautiful works. The materials and methods sit mostly within the canon of manual labour,” Estep explains, hinting at the discrepancy between the physical work that goes into his paintings and their eventual impracticality. Asked about the safety of the procedure, Estep, a robust and charismatic 33-year-old, shrugs his lack of concern. More worryingly, he then laughingly recalls one time when he got the measurements wrong and lay completely immobilised on his studio floor for several hours."

Art Culture

Artists mentioned include:

Oscar Tuazon: https://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/oscar-tuazon#tab:thumbnails

Ryan Estep: https://www.artnet.com/artists/ryan-estep/

Analia Saban: https://analiasabanstudio.com/

Holmes, Pernilla, A piece of the action, FT Weekend, HTSI, Nov-Dec 2014? pp.14-18.

(I did not record the date on the pages.)

See: https://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/3143_Guffwatch__Processbased_art

Special Issue - Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities

Photo by Marcus Urbenz on Unsplash

Journal of Cultural Analytics

Vol. 7, Issue 4, 2022
Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities

"This special issue deals with existing theory narratives and conceptions in DH scholarship. Introducing the neologism “theorytellings”, this special issue invites DH scholars to narrate and discuss their own theoretical contributions to the field."

 

Kleymann, Rabea, et al. “Foreword to the Special Issue ‘Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities.’” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Nov. 2022, doi:10.22148/001c.55593.

 

Includes:

Abstract

The status of theory in the Digital Humanities (DH) has been the subject of much debate. As a result, we find different theory narratives competing and entangled with each other. If at all, these narratives can only be grasped and examined from a somewhat detached perspective. Here, we attempt to investigate these elusive narratives by means of a conceptual history approach. In doing so, we define different theory dimensions, ranging from specific cultural and literary theory frameworks to more generic uses of the concept of theory. We examine the use and semantic changes of these theory notions in a large corpus of DH journals. Using a mixture of heuristic methods and approaches from the field of distributional semantics, we aim to create tellable conceptual stories of DH theory.

Kleymann, Rabea, et al. “Conceptual Forays: A Corpus-Based Study of ‘Theory’ in Digital Humanities Journals.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 2022, doi:10.22148/001c.55507.

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	'theorytellings'
storytelling

Abstract

Instead of looking for new paradigms for Digital Humanities (DH), we present Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) as a methodological approach to frame digital research practices more reflectively. By turning to the epistemological and practical implications of digital tools like Topic Modeling and digital data sources like YouTube comments, we highlight the theoretical assumptions that are already in the game—and call for more explicitness and methodical monitoring. To explain the procedures of GTM and the proposed worth for DH, we present an example of a qualitative research project using machine learning techniques to narrow down a large scale of data to human interpretable resample. The methodically monitored resampling process provided valuable means to validly minimize the amount of data without losing a qualitative trajectory of the process itself. Defining and tracing relevant content in our original data set enabled us to find related comments and textual conversations to be analyzed further. We discuss the example iteration in two ways: Our prototype and procedure show on the one hand, how qualitative research and computational methods can be better intertwined without compromising their epistemological foundations. On the other hand, we argue for an understanding of DH as research practice, that should follow an abductive research agenda in order to ground its theories in data.

Bischof, Andreas, and Konstantin Freybe. “Grounding Theory in Digital Data: A Methodological Approach for a Reflective Procedural Framework.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 2022, doi:10.22148/001c.57197.