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Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory
Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.
Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.The cyborg is our onthology; it gives us our politics. the cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation.
Donna J. Haraway
The role of design in Human-Computer Interaction research is thus to be found in trying to unfold a coherent whole – a previously nonexistent artifact – from the various bits and pieces gathered in the process of research…. Fieldwork, theory, and evaluation data provide systematically acquired input to this process, but do not by themselves provide the necessary whole. For the latter, there is only design.
-- Daniel Fallman, "Design-oriented human-computer interaction." [DOI](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642652). A quote I find particularly relevant as I begin to write my research proposal for a digital humanities tool (more on that soon) and have the sense that, if a tool is supposed to promote humanistic habits of mind, humanistic -- or at least not purely quantitative -- forms of research must go into its making. Humanities in, humanities out.
A basic premise of historicism is that human experience gets divided up in different ways in different eras. If we crowdsource “leadership” using twenty-first-century reactions on Mechanical Turk, for instance, we’ll probably get words like “visionary” and “professional.” “Loud-voiced” probably won’t be on the list — because that’s just rude. But to Homer, there’s nothing especially noble about working for hire (“professionally”), whereas “the loud-voiced Achilles” is cut out to be a leader of men, since he can be heard over the din of spears beating on shields (Blackwell).
Ted Underwood, How not to do things with words. | The Stone and the Shell
