About the Author
This digital critical edition is part of my Master's thesis, "Who? To Whom Listen?": Critical Design for Authorial Voice. My project is aimed, at part, in exploring alternative ways of making and reading the "text" online, and asking questions of what constitutes a text, creator, and user of technologies. My thesis explores the intersection of critical design and knowledge organization, and uses a digital humanities genre, the critical edition, to house my ideas.
From the introduction of my thesis:
My particular methodology which combines these disciplines’ theories and methods is as yet largely untried, and thus, the original contribution of my thesis is not just the creation of a digital artifact or the interrogation of pre-existing ones, but the creation of an understanding and process of designing technological objects and infrastructures. My thesis is meant to provide one example of how a feminist concern for the agency and voices of “others,” including non-human others, can be a fruitful starting point from which to reconceptualize the relation between humans as the users and designers of objects. The Bacchae Scalar represents one example of how scholars can enact a framework which sees all objects as potentially speaking agents through the critical reading and critical making of technological artifacts. My thesis describes the bewildering, difficult, but ultimately rewarding process of creating cyborg projects, objects which defy easy categorization, usage, and understanding. My research provides a way of interacting with designed objects which can challenge dominant notions in the disciplines of critical design, digital humanities, and knowledge organization by bringing to attention the notion of authorial voice.
Madeleine Faye Guy
MSIS, Master's in Information Studies
The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Supervisors: Melanie Feinberg & Tanya Clement
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