数字人文基础设施与全球学术体系的“中心—边缘”模式

Infrastructuring Digital Humanities:on Relational Infrastructure and Global Reconfiguration of The Field

数字知识生产中行为体的权力动态机制如何定义全球科学与人文框架?在努力推动建立一个基于平等获取资源、包容性参与和认识论多样性之价值观的网络化全球学术体系方面,学者们到达了哪里?文章通过探讨全球知识基础设施的社会维度--连接、标准化与可获取来介入对这些问题的研究,以理解全球数字人文的规范和实体化。随着数字实践活动在世界各地的扩展,数字人文社区在努力确保该领域发展中人们的包容性参与和平等机会。文章指出,现有基础设施发展不均衡是全球范围内数字人文发展差异的根源。借助科学技术学(STS),文章提出学术共同体可以诉诸数字人文的“基础设施建设”来消除这些不均衡。基础设施作为一个分析性概念,将注意力从“结构”转移到合作创造的“过程”,这种合作创造通过参与式设计实现,即重视通过公众参与、共享利益及与利益相关者的长期关系来创建网络,而平等的机会以及新型关联形式将从其中萌生。这将涉及在全球知识基础设施之上建立一个由独特的地方社区节点组成的包容性网络。

How do the power dynamics of actors in digital knowledge production define the contours of global science and humanities?Where are scholars now in their efforts to improve a networked,global academic system based on the values of equal access to resources,inclusive participation,and the diversity of epistemologies?This article intervenes in these questions by discussing social dimensions of global knowledge infrastructure-connection,standardization,and access-to understand the specification and materialization of global digital humanities(DH).As digital practices expand across the world,the DH community struggles to ensure inclusive participation and equal opportunities in developing the field.This article shows that discrepancies in global DH lie at the root of existing infrastructure inequalities.Drawing on science and technology studies,it then argues that in order to overcome these imbalances,the academic community can seek the'infrastructuring'of DH.Infrastructuring is an analytical concept that shifts attention from'structure'to'process'of co-creation in the vein of participatory design that foregrounds public engagement,shared interest,and long-term relationships with stakeholders to create networks from which equal opportunities and new forms of connections can emerge.This would involve building an inclusive network of unique nodes of local communities on top of the global knowledge infrastructure。