What is editorialization? (CSDH-SCHN 2016)
What is editorialization?
Nicolas Sauret
Marcello Vitali-Rosati
A History of the term
- 2004-2007: the community begins to use the term (Bachimont)
- A sort of edition, but in a digital environnement
- Bruno Bachimont employs editorialization to explain the shift of a non-digital document to a digital document.
A History of the term
- 2008: the beginning of institutionalisation
- Sens public: forms of production and circulation of knowledge in the digital environment
- MSH laboratory: Interdisciplinary practices and the circulation of knowledge : towards an editorialization of Human and social sciences (Wormser, Vitali-Rosati)
It is important to understand how the aesthetics of new media and cognitive technologies are redefining practices and to share the outcomes of this transformation. Thus the concept of editorialization may be characterized by : the articulation of content production, technical and communicative factors, and the dynamics of contemporary exchanges in the humanities. This question branches across a range of accessible media and all of their records: accessibility, objectivity, legibility, comprehensiveness, tone, document structuring, links … How should we think about the encyclopedia of digital knowledge ?
A definition of the term
- 2016: After 8 years of workshop
Editorialization is the set of dynamics that produce and structure digital space. These dynamics can be understood as the interactions of individual and collective actions within a particular digital environment.
Vitali-Rosati, What is editorialization?, Sens public 2016
What does it mean???
In a concret way
- Writing/reading (blog posts, comments, articles, annotations, images, videos, clicks, I like...)
- Plateforms
- Algorithms
- Common practices
- Values and cultural tendences
Three implicit aspects
- Technological
- Practical
- Cultural
Autonomy and heteronomy of actions
Some Characteristics
- Processual nature (unlike printed edition)
- In time
- In space (not only a platform, not a predefined group)
- Open process (unlike content curation)
- Boudaries between academic and non academic content?
- Collective process
- Writing=reading
Illustration
through case studies of editorialisation
Editorialisation of event
Polemictweet.com
credits : Samuel Huron
During the event
Combination of :- live stream
- twitter client with simple syntax for tweet categorisation
- infos: abstract, speakers bio
- live visualisation: zoomable with tweet agregation
- keywords: automatic extraction and categorisation
After the event
An dynamic archive of :- video player
- timeline of chapter
- timeline of tweets: synchronized and categorized, the tweets are searchable
- intra-video annotation widget: feed the timeline with more searchable index
- (slides)
Editorialisation caracteristics
- open : multiplicity of actors, community driven
- dynamic : read&write interface
- processual : continuous enrichment through annotation
- performative : interactions with the physical event
Further reading:
information: http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/outils/polemic-tweet/
publication: http://www.aviz.fr/wiki/pmwiki.php/Research/PolemicTweet
Editorialisation of archive
Les Herbonautes
http://lesherbonautes.mnhn.fr/
citizen collaborative digital herbarium
From (dusty) archive to citizen science
- massive digitalization of herbarium archives
- mediation-oriented database: dedicated to participation and appropriation
- website open for contributions:
- tagging, annotating, questionning, collecting, sharing
- creating new interpretative contexts: "collaboratory"
- mediation:
- calls for participation: "mission"
- validation, discussion and peer-reviewing
- badges
- thematic visits
What is at stake ?
Editorialisation sets the prerequisite for the re-appropriation of datas, archive, knowledge, ...
knowledge production & circulation
Further reading:
http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2013-05-0027-006
More case studies
| Editorialisation of... | exemples |
|---|---|
| archive | CDLI & Assyronline |
| scientific community | http://hypotheses.org/ |
| research process | http://modesofexistence.org/ |
| lab | http://networkcultures.org/ |
| conference | http://enmi-conf.org/wp/enmi12/ |
| manuscripts | https://anno.tate.org.uk/, The Devonshire Manuscript |
| journey | #transcan16 |
Thank you !
| Marcello Vitali Rosati | marcello.vitali.rosati@umontreal.ca @monterosato |
| Nicolas Sauret | nicolas.sauret@umonreal.ca @nicolasauret |
ecrituresnumeriques.ca
Canada Research Chair Digital textualities
seminaire.sens-public.org
Workshop editorialization
Congress 2016
May 28 - June 3 Calgary, AB
What is editorialization?
Nicolas Sauret Marcello Vitali-Rosati