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The Digital Cultures Research CentreProjects and Themes
Feb 2016Patrick Crogan
Associate Professor of Digital CulturesUniversity of the West of England, Bristol
www.dcrc.org.uk
• Image of dcrc space
2 DCRC projects:1.
A ‘Future Documentary’
sandbox projectto make a ‘Playable
documentary’
REACT Hub: AHRC project led by DCRC founder Jonathan Dovey
Sandbox = rapid prototyping lab meets research ideas
• Jtr blog site• Auroch logo
Research/development process
Historical archives
Experts
Ethical questionsTheoretical questions
Ripper tour, London
Game design research
Ripper boardgame
Other games as inspiration
Demos and prototype work
• http://gamethenews.net/index.php/gamifying-jack-the-ripper-a-new-gamethenews-title/
2.
• CT website• BGH building.
Rise of ‘Indie games’
Lucas Pope, Papers Please (2013)
Auroch Digital, Endgame Syria (2013)Minecraft,
Mojang (2009)
Angry Birds, Rovio (2009)
Collaboration and creativity
www.creativeterritories.dcrc.org.ukOUT NOW!
Key idea:
creation always
happens somewhe
re
Major Research Theme: The Automation of Everyday Life
Unfriendly robots
Friendly robots
• s‘Matilda’, Univ of Latrobe (2010)
‘K5’ Security guard robot, Knightscope (2014)
Tomotaka Takahashi’s Kirobowent into space with a Japanese astronaut
Siri
Automation and employment
• dUWE Bristol’s ‘Venturer’ project – Bristol Robotics Lab
Tom Davenport’s list of jobs replaceable by big data-based machine learning and analytics
• d‘3,000’ stories per month on AAP automatically written
http://www.slideshare.net/MassTLC/tom-davenport-slides-automation-augmentation
Unemployment Predictions
• Belgium 50%• England 43% • Italy and Poland 56%• Spain ?
GAFA etc.
• D
Social media:
• Duck or rabbit ?• Social life or
Database?
FB Open Graph
• Like button and login button
Working 24/7• Tiziana Terranova: ‘Immaterial
labour’• Maurizio Lazzarato: ‘Affective labour’• Jonathan Crary: 24/7
Notifications and alerts
• Automation of your ‘time’• Commerce hates ‘downtime’
Social media• Social life becoming media business.• Questions: how? – automation is crucial• Why? – commercial corporate model• What effect on social life? On individuals
and collectives?• What effect on the host? That is, our planet?
And….How can we organise digital social mediation better?
(and, for fun…. some robot fails)https://www.facebook.com/VirginRadioTurkiye/videos/10152989330580380/