Imaging Future Making and MoRM
MoRM lives within the larger umbrella (or cloud?) of Future Making. Here’s a possible way of visualizing this larger effort.
Speculative Fiction and Internet of Things: A workshop/experiment
This is the first of a series of methodology experiments to explore how certain questions or provocative statements elicit critical analysis around the socio-technical characteristics or impact of so-called “Internet of Things.”
MoRM at Festival of Research 2017
Student researchers from Digital Living MA Programme designed an exhibition of the Museum of Random Memory (MoRM) highlighting its value as data literacy. Held at the Aarhus Festival of Research in April 2017.
Remembering and Forgetting at Counterplay 2017: MoRM Returns
This participatory performance and exhibition invites you to think about the process of making memories, to play around with the idea that remembering and forgetting are not always distinct. We ask participants to contribute something they’d like to forget and walk them through a process of dis-remembering, de-archiving, and dis-preserving.
Methods as Ethics
In this talk, Annette Markham offers alternate vocabularies for talking about ethical research of sensitive topics, or in precarious situations, such as studying death or death online.
The politics and ethics of curating others’ memories
Brief reflections on the power of the curation process, as it inevitably carries our own moral codes, furthering our particular ethics. The only way through this tangle is to understand that the point of all of this is not to create The Museum but to engage citizens in a process through which they can think about their own memory-making tendencies.
Reflexivity: Some techniques for interpretive researchers
Reflexivity. We toss this word around as a key part of qualitative methods. Annette Markham writes some techniques for building reflexivity muscles on her blog.
Smart City Ethnography
This 2015 summer workshop was led by sensory anthropologist Sarah Pink, social media scholar Annette Markham, and visual aesthetics researcher Anne Marit Waade. In this PhD workshop, we studied the lived experience of Northside Music Festival
“Ethic as Method” a Social Media & Society special issue: CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite contributions to a special issue of Social Media + Society devoted to a critical examination of the future of Internet / media research practices in the era of computational or big data analytics, with particular focus on how ethics can be configured through methodological approaches. The following questions constitute only some of the …
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April 2016 Workshop and Future Making Launch
We brought together a vibrant group of individuals who blur the boundaries between art, academics, and activism. Toss them in a room together for a couple of days, to see what happens. They’re all brilliant researchers and artists.