Science 2.0 Conference 2015: Talk Professor Geoffrey Rockwell
Channel: ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Date: 2015-04-13

Talk by Professor Geoffrey Rockwell, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Canada

Title: New Publics for the Humanities
Abstract: Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding provide new ways for the humanities to engage with the publics that support them. In this paper I start by arguing that in many ways the humanities have ceased to be understood by state stakeholders and we therefore need to renew the “social contract” with our publics. I will then review examples of humanities crowdsourcing projects like the Suda on Line (http://www.stoa.org/sol/) and crowdfunding projects like those at the University of Alberta. Such projects provide a model for a different relationship with the publics that could support us. I will conclude by discussing some of the changes that have to take place if academics are to go beyond experimenting with such forms of engagement.


Science 2.0 Conference 2015, 25 to 26 March, Hamburg, Germany
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