From narrative machines to practice-based research

Making the case for a digital Renaissance

Bibliographic Data

ID9745008
AuthorsPaulo Nuno Vicente (0000-0002-1952-6016, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author), Paulo Vicente (0000-0001-7488-592X)
Year2018
Volume2
Pages67-78
Publication date2018-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudos em Comunicação (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1646-4923 • E-ISSN: 1646-4974
PublisherUniversidade da Beira Interior (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.20287/ec.n27.v2.a05
OpenAlexW2901483851
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Contemporary communication sciences are embedded with theoretical traditions supportive of an occupational boundary work: the social and the cultural world as a strict sociological and anthropological object of study and the material world as the domain of scientists and engineers. This epistemic divide places communication sciences before a future shock, by failing to respond explicitly to emerging mediations made possible by radical technologies. Practice-based research (PbR) is still under-represented in communication studies and has yet to be further articulated in order to provide a clear epistemological foundation. This paper objective is to fill in that knowledge gap: it positions digital media as a transdisciplinary scientific domain with a triple helix structure (hardware, interface, and software studies), placing PbR as a critical native methodological approach and presenting a holistic research framework

Art · Cognition · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Literature · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · The Renaissance · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence