Category: Scraps

This category collects assorted brief writings and other work. Click on the titles to read each post.

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media, Liège, June 16 -18, 2016

~ Ernesto Priego

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, the Digital, and ‘Unidentified’ Media (About) is an international and bilingual conference organized by the ACME Comics Research Group and hosted by the University of Liège (Belgium), from June 16 to June 18, 2016.

Notes on Content Overload: Whose Filter Failure?

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 2 Comments

[Revised]. If there is content overload, whose responsibility is it to filter, and is filtering, as we have traditionally defined it, still really possible under the current infrastructures?

Conference Programme

~ Ernesto Priego

Looking forward to presenting at this conference!

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Wednesday 15 June

Conference opening event: WREKshop by Olivier Deprez & Miles O’Shea
9h-17h, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège

20h – WREKshop Projection, with comments by Olivier Deprez and Aarnoud Rommens – Salle Lumière, Université de Liège

Thursday 16 June

8h30-9h – Welcome and registration

9h-9h30 – Introductionby Aarnoud Rommens, Björn-Olav Dozo & Benoît Crucifix

9h30 – 11h30 – Thinking about Digital Comics through Practice

  • Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “The Users of Comics as Scholarship”
  • Anthony Rageul (Université Rennes 2, artist), “De la jubilation de concevoir des ‘récits-interfaces’”
  • Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (University of Hertfordshire), “Choose the Format of the Destructor: Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media”
  • Yannis La Macchia (graphic artist), “Narration par fragments”

Coffee break

11h45-12h45
Ilan Manouach
“Shapereader: Tactile storytelling for the visually impaired”

Lunch (room A2/5/6)

14h-15h30 – Bande dessinée numérique : esthétique et lecture

  • Julien Baudry (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “Les paradoxes…

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A Library is Not a Library is Not a Library

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 2 Comments

A library is not a library is not a library because not all 'libraries' face the same challenges and not all librarians do the same jobs. The narrative we need to see more of is that Library and Information Science skills are today more needed than ever before.

The Questions Concerning Technology. A Critical Theory Seminar

~ Ernesto Priego

I am excited to announce that this spring I will be leading an extracurricular research seminar for City University London postgraduate students (or alumni) titled 'The Questions Concerning Technology. A Critical Theory Seminar for Beginners.'

Mapping THE and Elsevier’s 2015-2016: Arts and Humanities Subject Ranking Top 100

~ Ernesto Priego

Where I quickly map the data from the "Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities top 100 in partnership with Elsevier" published 21 October 2015.

Research Case Study: Library and Information Science

~ Ernesto Priego

I had missed this! With thanks to Diane Bell, Research Librarian at City University London Library.

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Dr Ernesto Priego, Course Director of #citylis PG scheme, Department of Library & Information Science, City University London.

Ernesto

Current research interest: Library & Information Science . Other related research interest include: comics scholarship, digital humanities, open access publishing, research data management, scholarly communications.

Resources at City University London Library 

CityLibrary Search  is a resource discovery tool which searches across a wide range of resources including books, ebooks,  ejournals, databases.

Ernesto recommends the City University London library subject guides too for different subjects such as Information Science.  Education, Social Sciences.  The comprehensive City University London Researcher guide covering research resources, reference management, sharing research etc.

You can also find databases and electronic journals on the Library Guides page.

There are also library related databases such as LISA and LISTA. Other useful databases include: Taylor & Francis, Ebscohost, Emerald Insight and Wiley.

Recommended research tools

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At Graphixia: Death in the Library: On Bef and Yorko’s 1874

~ Ernesto Priego

Yesterday Graphixia published its post number 202. It's a post by me, where I briefly discuss the graphic novella 1874, by Mexican authors Bernardo Fernández “Bef” and Jorge F. Muñoz “Yorko”.