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    2020 Schools of Thought Conference Proceedings

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    The introductory section of the Schools of Thought proceedings contains a land acknowledgment, information about conference organizers and session chairs, an overview of conference sessions, information about sponsors, and more.The Schools of Thought conference took place at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, from March 5-7, 2020. It drew more than 100 faculty from over fifty institutions from the United States and beyond. The idea for the Schools of Thought conference grew out of research into the history of pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma (OU). In the postwar era, faculty at OU developed a truly original approach to teaching design known as the American School. Students were taught to begin with the natural context: the slope of the land, the quality of light, and the local materials. They were instructed to earnestly respond to the program and sincerely listen to the needs and desires of each client. Most importantly, students were taught to trust their own creative instincts and avoid imitation of all kinds. Their work was hard to define stylistically but united by a commitment to resourcefulness, experimental form, and respect for context. Today, we find aspects of the American School approach resurfacing in architectural pedagogy and practice. Designers are again considering how to be materially resourceful, design sustainably, and work sincerely with clients and sites. More than 70 years after the American School era was founded at OU, the “Schools of Thought” symposium sought to extend the American School tradition of reconsidering how and what we teach our students.The “Schools of Thought” conference was made possible with support from: Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma; University of Oklahoma Vice President for Research and Partnerships; University of Oklahoma Libraries; Bruce Goff, Chair of Creative Architecture; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan; Ben Graves; The Gunning Family.N

    Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2019

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    University catalog, 2019-2020

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    Mobile Device and App Use in Pharmacy: A Multi-University Study

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    The Object of Platform Studies: Relational Materialities and the Social Platform (the case of the Nintendo Wii)

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    Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System,by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort, inaugurated thePlatform Studies series at MIT Press in 2009.We’ve coauthored a new book in the series, Codename: Revolution: the Nintendo Wii Video Game Console. Platform studies is a quintessentially Digital Humanities approach, since it’s explicitly focused on the interrelationship of computing and cultural expression. According to the series preface, the goal of platform studies is “to consider the lowest level of computing systems and to understand how these systems relate to culture and creativity.”In practice, this involves paying close attentionto specific hardware and software interactions--to the vertical relationships between a platform’s multilayered materialities (Hayles; Kirschenbaum),from transistors to code to cultural reception. Any given act of platform-studies analysis may focus for example on the relationship between the chipset and the OS, or between the graphics processor and display parameters or game developers’ designs.In computing terms, platform is an abstraction(Bogost and Montfort), a pragmatic frame placed around whatever hardware-and-software configuration is required in order to build or run certain specificapplications (including creative works). The object of platform studies is thus a shifting series of possibility spaces, any number of dynamic thresholds between discrete levels of a system

    Ontic Occlusion and Exposure in Sociotechnical Systems

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    Living inside built environments - infrastructure - it is easy to take for granted the things that we do not need to engage, but are at work behind the scenes nonetheless. Well-designed systems become invisible, but to engage them, how do we know which perspectives, objects, and relationships are useful? I examine the University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL), a mid-1990s interdisciplinary project attempting to build an agent-based digital library architecture. Through analyzing project data, I develop the concept of ontic occlusion and exposure - mechanisms of choice regarding objects and relationships that enter discourses and representations. By analyzing project artifacts, interview transcripts, and meeting records, this study iden- tifies key sets of discursive elements bridging concepts between disciplinary communities on the surface, but were the fundamental sites of contestation between groups’ understanding of project goals. I examine narratives of project personnel to understand the positioning of terms and ideas relating to project design, execution, and assessment, and discuss the role of the ontic in interdisciplinary work. Using data from the UMDL project, I discuss the tension between occlusion (the hidden) and exposure (the revealed) in understanding the digital library as an object through meet- ings of the project operating committee - the primary engagement site between researchers from different departments, primarily computer engineering and library science. Examining interpretive differences, use of fundamental terms, and observations about the contested responses toward resolution, we can better understand the outcomes of the project, the disciplinary positioning of institutional change, and perspectives of evaluating the project in the subsequent years. This dissertation contributes to an understanding of discourse development in interdisciplinary projects where shared language is important to design, execution, and evaluation. It combines perspectives in philosophy, digital libraries, and interdisciplinarity studies. The complementary mechanisms of ontic occlusion and exposure are useful devices to decode and describe change in sociotechnical systems, and highlight the need to examine more closely both what is rendered in accounts of infrastructure, and residual categories often left unaddressed.Ph.D.InformationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78763/1/cknobel_1.pd
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