A critical, analytical framework for the digital machine
Hall C.; Chown E.; Nascimento F.
2021
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
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10.1080/03080188.2020.1865659
The Faculty of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) at Bowdoin College proposes a critical, analytical framework, referred to as the ‘4As,’ as an interdisciplinary means to interpret, evaluate, and create the data, operations, and devices of computing across all domains of knowledge production. Following other disciplines that have developed in symbiotic relationships to one another, DCS puts computation in conversation with fields from across the arts, humanities, physical, and social sciences. Our foundational premise is the bidirectional influence between these disciplines and digital artifacts and computation. The 4As (artifact, architecture, abstraction, and agency) benefit from both the scepticism of the liberal arts in the face of ubiquitous digital processes and the analytical opening for examining questions pertaining to creative and imaginative alternatives to the digital and computational status quo. We provide an ultra-contemporary case study to demonstrate the framework in use. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
4As; Abstraction; analytical framework; computation; computational social sciences; digital humanities; epistemology; liberal arts
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