"GrinUGR - Co-Laboratory on Digital Cultures in Social Sciences and Humanities. A view on Digital Humanities and Social Sciences". This presentation was given at the New Trends Seminars organised by the eHumanities Group in Amsterdam (March 13th, 2014).

1. GrinUGR
Co-Laboratory on Digital Cultures
in Social Sciences and
Humanities
!
A view on Digital Humanities and
Social Sciences
Esteban Romero-Frías
@polisea // erf@ugr.es
University of Granada
Spain

2. 3 months atVKS !
in 2010

3. Inspiration

4. The magical !
Thursdays

5. First steps

6. GrinUGR
• “Is there anybody out there?” (Galina, 2013).
And the answer was “yes”.!
• GrinUGR stands for “GRoup of INternet at
the University of Granada”. !
• The first call for interest was done via an
email sent to the mailing list of the
University of Granada asking for academic
who wanted to use Internet in their
research or teaching.

7. First Meeting
• More than 60 people coming from a wide
variety of faculties and research centers.!
• The goals of GrinUGR were:!
• Learning freely and critically from other colleagues.!
• Sharing research and teaching experiences.!
• Networking.

8. First Meeting!
12 mayo 2011

9. Meetings 2011-2012
• 15M & Wikis (27/5/2011).!
• Photography & Digital Etnography (with Edgar Gómez)
& Blogs (10/6/2011).!
• Mobile apps at the UGR & Blog experiences
(20/6/2011).!
• Sharing of projects, ideas, proposals (20/7/2011).!
• How to disseminate scientific results using Web 2.0
(with Daniel Torres) (7/9/2011).!
• Free knowledge and open data. How to use them in
teaching and researching. Creative Commons
(7/9/2011).!
• Overview of research centers on digital culture
(20/12/2011).!

10. • Entrepreneurship and learning (27/3/2012).!
• Gamification in education and business (29/5/2012).!
• Reforms of the university system in Spain (4/6/2012).!
• New technologies & education: research and trends
(with Jordi Adell).!
• Open and distributed knowledge in Higher Education
(with Cristobal Cobo) (3/9/2012).!
• From the degree to the portfolio: open curriculum,
learning projects and disruptive technologies in the
classroom (with Fernando Trujillo) (19/9/2012).!
• Networking event “ PinkSlipParty” 25/10/2012).
Meetings 2011-2012

12. 2011

13. 2011
2013

14. 2011
2013

15. 2011
2013

16. 2011
2013

17. “Digital Humanities and
Social Sciences: cases,
management and business
models”!
Research Project funded by the
Campus of International Excelence!
BioTic Granada!
2013

19. GrinUGR - Co-Laboratory on Digital Cultures
in Social Sciences and Humanities

20. Main activities
in 2013

21. GrinWeek - a week about open learning

22. GrinWeek - a week about open learning

23. GrinWeek - a week about open learning

24. Event: Spin-offs UGR

25. Event: Spin-offs UGR

26. Event: Spin-offs UGR

27. Gamification & Entrepreneurship

28. Gamification & Entrepreneurship

29. Gamification & Entrepreneurship

30. Science and Social Media !
(with Pere Estupinyà)

31. Science and Social Media !
(with Pere Estupinyà)

32. Science and Social Media !
(with Pere Estupinyà)

33. Health 2.0

34. Health 2.0

35. UnderGrin, an underground session about
culture in a digital society

36. UnderGrin, an underground session about
culture in a digital society

37. UnderGrin, an underground session about
culture in a digital society

38. Learning Week !
3 days about learning analytics

39. Learning Week !
3 days about learning analytics

40. Learning Week !
3 days about learning analytics

41. Learning Week !
3 days about learning analytics

42. Learning Week !
3 days about learning analytics

43. Google Glass (with Antonio Zugaldía)

44. THATCamp UGR 2013

45. THATCamp UGR 2013

52. Work!
in progress

53. Book (forthcoming) !
!
“Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales:
técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-
research e investigación en colaboración”!
!
Esteban Romero & María Sánchez (editors)!
!
Prologues: Paul Spence (KCL) & Nuria
Rodríguez (University of Málaga)

54. !
Contents
!
Introducción al libro desde el proyecto de I+D GrinUGR. Esteban Romero
Frías (Coordinador de GrinUGR, Universidad de Granada, España).!
1. Una visión de lo digital en las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades
(CSyH). Esteban Romero Frías (U. de Granada, España).!
!
Bloque I: Investigaciones en torno al estado de la cuestión del e-research y
fenómenos afines estudio
!
2. e-research y comunicación: 10 años en España. Octavio Rubiera (U.
Complutense de Madrid, España) y Belén Álvarez (U. Complutense de Madrid,
España).!
3. e-investigación Social en América Latina. Carlos Arcila (U. del Rosario,
Bogotá, Colombia), Mabel Calderín Cruz (U. Católica Andrés Bello,Venezuela),
Luis Núñez (U. Industrial de Santander, Colombia/RedCLARA) eYsabel Briceño
(U. de Los Andes,Venezuela).!
4. MapaHD. Una exploración de las Humanidades Digitales en español y
portugués. Elika Ortega (CulturePlex Lab, UWO, Canadá) y Silvia Eunice
Gutiérrez (Universität Würzburg,Alemania).!

55. !
Contents!
Bloque II. Potenciales usos de Internet y de la Web social para la
investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
!
Métodos, técnicas y herramientas para el e-research en CSyH!
5. El Big Data como herramienta para el e-research en entornos
infosaturados y complejos. María Sánchez González (U. Internacional de
Andalucía, U. de Málaga, España).!
6. The value of Web mentions as data: mapping attention to the notion
of OER in the HE arena. DanielVillar-Onrubia (Oxford Internet Institute,
U. de Oxford, Reino Unido).!
!
Casos de análisis sobre fenómenos digitales!
7. Un acercamiento a los factores de desarrollo de las iniciativas P2P.
Juan M. García Sierra, Manuel D. Pérez Heredia y Javier Jiménez Cuadros
(investigadores independientes).!
!
Reseñas de iniciativas y proyectos!
8. Prácticas epistémicas de la e-research en comunicación: el caso
PARC. Patricia Lázaro Pernias, Daniel Tena Parera, David Roca Correa, Josep
María Blanco Pont,Alfonso González Quesada (Grup de Recerca en
Publicitat i Relacions Públiques, U.Autònoma de Barcelona, España).!

56. !
Contents!
!
9. From Golden Age to 21st Century: the GRISO strategies to make
Humanities Research visible. Álvaro Baraibar (GRISO, U. de Navarra,
España).
10. Observatorio de Revistas Científicas de Ciencias Sociales: un
espacio virtual para editores e investigadores interesados en las
revistas científicas.Victoria Tur-Viñes (U. de Alicante, España), Mª Carmen
Quiles-Soler (U. de Alicante, España) y José Manuel de Pablos (U. de La
Laguna, España).!
!
Bloque III. Experiencias sobre investigación colaborativa y enseñanza-
aprendizaje mediante e-research
!
11. Tesis 2.0: herramientas para su diseño, desarrollo, lectura y
difusión. Ana Mª Rodera Bermúdez (e-Learn Center, U.Oberta de
Catalunya, España) y Ana Mª González Ramos (IN3, U.Oberta de Catalunya,
España).!
12. Marcar y leer TEI, la experiencia de un taller en el entorno de una
biblioteca digital. Ernesto Priani Saisó (U.Nacional Autónoma de México,
México).

57. A conectivist MOOC about!
Digital Cultures!
• A conectivist MOOC from the GrinUGR
community to the GrinUGR community in
order to create more community.!
• Participants: @balhisay, @belenaveleta,
@torressalinas, @repisogurru, @isagranada,
@sdelbarrio, @mcgrios, @b_espigares,
@esquilo_antonio, @juanjora,
@espinarplay, @ftsaez, @polisea

58. Innovation & Coffee -!
creating learning communities on technology

59. Reading Club:Techno-Philosophy!

60. ¿Social Sciences &
Humanities?

61. Digitalism + Science
Post-normal Science / Technoscience /
Cyberinfrastructure!
Cyberscience / e-Science !
!
e-Science emerges from the combination of three
different factors: the sharing of computational resources,
distributed access to massive data-sets, and the use of
digital platforms for collaboration and communication.
(Wouters, 2006)

62. Digitalism + Social
Science & Humanities
e-Social Science / e-Research / e-Humanities / !
/ Humanities Computing / Generative Humanities /
Digital Humanities!
!
e-Research as ”a form of scholarship conducted in a
network environment utilizing Internet-based tools and
involving collaboration among scholars separated by
distance, often on a global scale". (Jankowski, 2009: 7)

63. Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is “the application of information
technology as an aid to fulfill the humanities' basic tasks
of preserving, reconstructing, transmitting, and
interpreting the human record.” (Frischer, 2009: 15)!
!
“Digital Humanities refers to new modes of scholarship
and institutional units for collaborative, transdisciplinary,
and computationally engaged research, teaching, and
publication”. (Burdick et al.,2012: 122)

64. What are
Digital Humanities?
The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0!
(Center for Digital Humanities,!
Universidad de California - UCLA)
Manifesto THATcamp Paris 2010!

65. The Digital Humanities
Manifesto 2.0 (2009)
Digital'Humani,es'is'not'a'unified'field'but'an#array#of#
convergent#prac.ces#that'explore'a'universe'in'which:''
a)'''print#is#no#longer#the#exclusive#or#the#norma.ve#
medium#in'which'knowledge'is'produced'and/or'
disseminated;'instead,'print'finds'itself'absorbed'
into'new,'mul,media'configura,ons;'and''
b)'''digital#tools,#techniques,#and#media#have'altered'
the'produc,on'and'dissemina,on'of'knowledge'in'
the'arts,'human'and'social'sciences.''
!

66. How is GrinUGR
organised?
How are “Digital
Centers" organised?

67. What is a Digital Humanities Center?
!
"A'digital#humani.es#center#is'an'en,ty'where'new'
media'and'technologies'are'used'for'humani,esE
based'research,'teaching,'and'intellectual'
engagement'and'experimenta,on.'The'goals'of'the'
center'are'to'further'humani,es'scholarship,'create'
new'forms'of'knowledge,'and'explore'technology’s'
impact'on'humani,esE'based'disciplines".''
(Zorich,'2008:'7)'

68. Department of Digital
Humanities at KCL

69. Department of Digital
Humanities at KCL

70. The UCL Centre !
for Digital Humanities

71. Berkman Center !
for Internet & Society

72. Oxford Internet Institute

73. Oxford Internet Institute

74. HASTAC

75. eHumanities Group

76. Virtual Knowledge Studio

77. Humanidades Digitales
Hispánicas (Spain)

78. Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)

79. Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)

80. Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)

81. CulturePlex at !
University of Western Ontario

82. CulturePlex at !
University of Western Ontario

83. MediaLab Prado

84. MediaLab Prado

85. Our Position at the
University of Granada
• Non-part of the official structure. It occupies
an space between the university and the rest
of the society.!
• Our influence (if any) is given by reputation,
not by hierarchy.!
• Networking. Convening power. Outreach.

86. Our Position at the
UGR
• High visibility:!
• Aprox. half of the pictures of UGR at Flickr refers to
GrinUGR events.!
• Video & streaming.!
• Presence at local press and regional TV.!
• Twitter presence (@GrinUGR).!
• Aprox. 1300 subscribers to our mailing list.

87. Funding
• As long as we are not part of the official
structure of the university, GrinUGR does
not have stable funding.!
• Free activities.!
• 2011-2012: funding from other projects
(mainly innovation projects) using the label
GrinUGR. !
• 2013: Research project - 23.000 euros.!
• 2014: back to 2012 but with more
reputation

88. GrinUGR’s Mission
• To create awareness about the digital
cultures in our society (particularly in
research, teaching, dissemination, etc.).!
• To promote open culture and hacker ethic in
academia and society.!
• Digital Scholars communities are relatively
small and may suffer of isolation. GrinUGR
wants to address “non-believers” and bring
them into the discussion.

89. The creation of
Internet and the
Web derives from
academic needs.

90. The creation of
Internet and the
Web derives from
academic needs.

91. The creation of
Internet and the
Web derives from
academic needs.

92. The Hacker Ethic
is rooted in the
academic tradition
(Himanen, 2001).

93. The Hacker Ethic
is rooted in the
academic tradition
(Himanen, 2001).
*Passion
*Freedom
*Social value
*Accessibility
*Activity
*Awareness
*Creativity

94. GrinUGR’s !
Values

95. Culture of Collaboration
Algunos derechos reservados por Vít ‘tasuki’ Brunner

96. Culture of Openness:
open source/resources/data/etc.

97. Copyright and Intellectual Property
standards are challenged

98. Copyright and Intellectual Property
standards are challenged

99. Interdisciplinarity
¿Antidisciplinarity?

100. Networking and creation of
communities

101. University as a public square:
a platform for social engagement
Algunos derechos reservados por CESAR HZ

102. Entrepreneurship
Taking risks
Prototyping

103. Final ideas
• The development of a project depends on a few
individuals.!
• Building communities is cornerstone.!
• There are more than one digital culture.!
• Principles and values are generally more
important than technology.!
• Distinction between Humanities and Social
Science is blurred when it comes to digital
terms.!

104. “Angelus Novus”
Klee (1920)
Imagen tomada de Wikimedia
Commons en dominio público.

105. Atlas of Digital Humanities
and Social Science
(in Spanish and Portuguese)
!
www.atlascshd.org

106. Objective of the Atlas
• The Atlas is the result of opening up the
process of creating the sample of our research
on digital practices of the DH community in
Spanish.!
• The project is the result of joining efforts made
by GrinUGR and MapaHD.!
• It intends to give visibility to the community
(including researchers, projects, centers,
resources) working on Digital Humanities and
Social Sciences.!

107. Centernet Map

108. Centernet Map

109. Centernet Map
!
Alfa Informatica, University of Groningen !
Utrecht Digital Humanities Group
Humanities Computing at Leiden University

110. Inclusiveness
Dacos, M. (2013). “La stratégie du Sauna finlandais”.
Blogo Numericus. !
Available at: http://blog.homo-numericus.net/
article11138.html

111. www.atlascshd.org

112. Connections between cases !
are shown in the map

113. Cases in the Atlas

114. Cases in the Atlas

115. Identification !
and collection of data
• Self-identification with the idea of “Digital
Humanities and Social Sciences”.!
• Collection based on:!
• Questionnaires sent to the most relevant
networks, to personal contacts and
through social media.!
• Twitter profiles.

116. Questionnaire

117. Twitter

118. Twitter

119. Twitter

120. Open Data Project

124. URL estebanromero.com
facebook Esteban Romero-Frías
twitter @polisea
email erf@ugr.es!
THANK YOU
www.grinugr.org