Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
24 lines (20 loc) · 1.34 KB

keynote-notes.md

File metadata and controls

24 lines (20 loc) · 1.34 KB
Raw

accessible version of presentation: http://cuny.is/mkgold-nydh2019

1. Critical Infrastructural Studies and DH

  • "the study of boring things"; Infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks.
  • cistudies.org
  • infrastructure as "tactical medium"

2. Academic Knowledge Infrastructures / Critical Unversity Studies

  • SPARC Landscape Analysis
  • Elsevier "Content provision to data analytics business"
  • "these companies can invisibly and strategically influence, and perhaps exert control, over key university decisions..." Selling insights
  • hiss
  • Commons as concept, history (from shared space, to enclosed). Has limits and boundaries.
  • Design principles of commons 1991?
  • "social practice of commoning" David Harvey
  • CUNY Academic Commons

3. Community-supported Infrastructure

  • Generouos thinking by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Calls to action

  • Questioning and resisting university commitments to corporate vendors
  • Advocating for investments in people to power that work
  • Push back on software to get it to do what you need; communication with developers/creators; test out open source alternatives