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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Zuse / binary
by Erica Robles 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Dear Colleagues, This thread on Zuse is fantastic and I wanted to signal interest from myself and my collaborator, Scott Ferguson, on this topic. We’re media scholars and there are a few tendrils on Zuse and this question of math and the medium that surface from time to time (see Lev Manovitch on New Media: A User’s Guide<http://manovich.net/content/04-projects/026-new-media-a-user-s-guide/23_art…>). We’re particularly interested in Zuse as a figure that brings computing and film history into conversation. He used discarded 35mm film scrounged from trash cans outside studios as punched tape, and we understand that his machines used floating point representations rather than fixed-point numbers in calculation. We would love to be in correspondence/conversation with Zuse scholars and enthusiasts. We’d also be curious if there are recommended articles or resources that place Zuse in a genealogy of floating point computing to the present. Many thanks for opening this topic. Erica & Scott Erica Robles-Anderson Associate Professor Media, Culture, and Communication New York University erica.robles(a)nyu.edu<mailto:erica.robles@nyu.edu> Editor-in-Chief, Public Culture<https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture> erica(a)publicculture.org Hi Johannah - As far as I know the letter hasn't been published, though there are references to it in the literature. There's a typed copy in Herman Goldstine's papers at the APS. Goldstine sent von Neumann's original manuscript (of the First Draft) back to Valentine Bargmann at Princeton, as JvN was in Los Alamos at the time. I contacted Princeton last year to see if there was any sign of it in Bargmann's papers. The archivist I was talking to said no, but did turn up the autograph of the May 8 letter instead, which was a nice consolation prize! All the best Mark On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 14:45, Johannah Rodgers <johannah.rodgers(a)gmail.com<mailto:johannah.rodgers@gmail.com>> wrote: Thank you, Mark! Not having been aware of this von Neumann letter, my reading of the "First Draft" and of the "EDVAC Progress Report" with regard to the decision to use binary notation would indicate that the technical affordances of various components far outweighed consideration of human usability and legibility. Now that I know about this von Neumann letter--is this in the APA archive or published somewhere?--I will look forward to integrating that into the mix. All best, Johannah On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 9:26 AM Mark Priestley via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>> wrote: Hi all It's worth remembering that von Neumann mailed the text of the First Draft to Herman Goldstine at the end of April 1945, around two months before the June 30 date that we are familiar with from the mimeographed version. On May 8 he followed up with a long letter which included additional material to be added to the report (it never was). A lot of this material concerns input and output: von Neumann was concerned that long binary strings are unfamiliar to operators, and proposed a binary-coded decimal scheme for input. Instructions were to be punched on a special-purpose keyboard with dedicated symbols corresponding to those in EDVAC's order code. Of course, binary-coded input would require translation into binary, so there are trade-offs involved, the effects of which may not have been obvious a priori. Presumably Eckert and Mauchly are just exploring these trade-offs by considering a binary-coded machine in detail - had anyone done this before? They don't seem to have be committed to one or the other ("a binary system may ultimately be used"). But importantly, they are concerned with the overall economy of using the machine, not just with the narrower question of whether binary is in some sense "simpler". So on p71, for example, they write "the ease with which a problem may be arranged for computation and the desired instructions placed on magnetic wire or tape is a very important factor in the design of the EDVAC". They go on to say that it's important that all the symbols used should appear on a standard typewriter - presumably a direct riposte to von Neumann's proposal! Best wishes Mark Dr Mark Priestley www.markpriestley.net<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.markpriestley.net&d…> Senior Research Fellow The National Museum of Computing Bletchley Park, UK https://www.tnmoc.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.tnmoc.org_&d=DwMFa…> On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 05:19, Brian E Carpenter via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>> wrote: On 09-Jul-23 05:23, Johannah Rodgers via Members wrote: > Thanks everyone for this fascinating discussion. While I cannot offer any contribution to Zuse's decision to use binary notation, I do have an opinion to offer re: the decision to use binary rather than decimal notation with the EDVAC. In their 1945 report entitled "Automatic High Speed Computing: A Progress Report on the EDVAC," Eckert and Mauchly write that "accuracy is ensured by digital methods" (6) but, there is also an indication that the reliability of vacuum tubes is greatly increased by the use of "digital methods." Thanks for reminding me of that report. On the binary v. decimal point, it is interesting to contrast it with the von Neumann report. The progress report says: "In the EDVAC, the various digits specifying a number will be transmitted serially through a single channel. Switching equipment is consequently simplified and reduced. Moreover, the storage or memory elements to be used in the EDVAC are entirely different from those used in the ENIAC." [page 4] "Indeed, the EDVAC will store its operating instruc- tions in exactly the same manner as it stores numbers." [page 5] "For the purpose of this report, it was decided to present plans based on use of a coded decimal number representation, although a binary system may ultimately be used. The computer elements are therefore somewhat more com- plicated than they would be for a binary machine." [page 8] That was dated almost exactly 3 months later than the von Neumann report, which clearly states that the machine should be binary. An interesting discrepancy. I wonder whether the progress report was aimed at a somewhat conservative management chain? Or is this simply a reflection of von Neumann's status as a brilliant outsider? Regards, Brian Carpenter > > All best, > > Johannah > > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 12:43 PM Ceruzzi, Paul via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>>> wrote: > > Fascinating discussion. Zuse told me that he was taught binary arithmetic in grade school, but he only learned of Leibniz's essay on binary (ca. 1680) after Zuse began work on computers. Babbage was an admirer of Leibniz's work but did not consider binary for his engines. The Z1, which had a binary calculating unit, did not work well, and therefore Zuse adopted electromagnetic relays (a technology not available to Babbage) for his later machines, which did work. Attempts to reconstruct the Z1 for the Deutsches Technikmuseum using late 20th-Century machine tools also failed -- please correct me if I am mistaken. But note that Zuse built a successful mecahnical binary /memory/ unit for the Z4, which not only worked well but which was in steady service at the ETH in Switzerland for years. The joke was that the clicking of the Z4 relays was the loudest noise in Zurich on any given evening. The Z4 is now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. > > Paul Ceruzzi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Members <members-bounces(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>>> on behalf of Jesper Juul via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>>> > *Sent:* Saturday, July 8, 2023 8:05 AM > *To:* Evan Koblentz <evank(a)njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu> <mailto:evank@njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu>>> > *Cc:* members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>> <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>>> > *Subject:* Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Zuse / binary > > *External Email - Exercise Caution* > > In Raúl Rojas' paper on the Z1/Z3(1), he writes that "instead of using gears (as Babbage had done in the previous century), Zuse implemented logical and arithmetical operations using sliding metallic rods. The rods could move in only one of two directions (forward or backward) and therefore were appropriate for a binary machine." The Z1 is 1936-38. > > This doesn't quite explain if rods or binary arithmetic came first, but there is a footnote to Zuse's book "Der Computer mein Lebenswerk". > > As a side note, I can recommend seeing the Z1 in the Technical Museum in Berlin if you are near. > > Jesper Juul > > 1) https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Zuse_Z1_and_Z3.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ed-2Dthelen.org_comp-2…> <https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Zuse_Z1_and_Z3.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ed-2Dthelen.org_comp-2…>> > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 18:34, Evan Koblentz via Members <members(a)lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org> <mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org>>> wrote: > > What are some good articles addressing why Zuse, Aiken, Stibitz, etc. > decided to use binary (or not)? > > -- > Evan Koblentz > > New Jersey Institute of Technology > - Senior Writer, Office of Communications and Marketing > - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing > - Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club > > evank(a)njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu> <mailto:evank@njit.edu<mailto:evank@njit.edu>> > (973) 596-3065 > https://web.njit.edu/~evank<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.njit.edu_-7Eevank&…> <https://web.njit.edu/~evank<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.njit.edu_-7Eevank&…>> > > _______________________________________________ > This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sigcis.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=s…> <http://sigcis.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sigcis.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=…>>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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Crowdfunding: 76+ hours of interviews with Hungarian home computer enthusiasts on BluRay
by Gleb J. Albert 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Dear list members I just learned about this amazing project which is highly relevant not only for the history of computer subcultures, but for the history of East European home computing in general: https://fundrazr.com/stampsback The makers of the Hungarian "Moleman" home computing documentary series are planning to release 76+ hours of raw (and English-subtitled!) footage of interviews they did with Hungarian home computer users and enthusiasts (mostly crackers, hackers and demosceners) who were active in the 1980s and the early 1990s. I am sure this will be a treasure trove for the cultural and social history of home computing behind the Iron Curtain, and of immense value for any researcher working in the field. The footage will be available on three BluRay disks. I just pre-ordered my copy and really hope that the project will reach its funding goal. All the best, Gleb -- Dr. Gleb J. Albert Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich Universität Zürich Historisches Seminar Culmannstr. 1 CH-8006 Zürich Switzerland Tel. +41-446346187 <http://uzh.academia.edu/GlebJAlbert> Review editor: H-Soz-Kult, review team "History of Knowledge" - <http://www.hsozkult.de>

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Zuse / binary
by Evan Koblentz 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

What are some good articles addressing why Zuse, Aiken, Stibitz, etc. decided to use binary (or not)? -- Evan Koblentz New Jersey Institute of Technology - Senior Writer, Office of Communications and Marketing - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing - Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club evank(a)njit.edu (973) 596-3065 https://web.njit.edu/~evank

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SHOT 2023 - SIGCIS cfp
by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Apologies for the mass email but I couldn’t find anything in the SIGCIS website, Has the cfp for this year’s meeting on the back of SHOT in LA gone out? If yes, could you please point me to it. If no, any idea when? Ta muchy Bernardo

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On Media and Climate: CFP of Possible Interest?
by Corinna Kirsch 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Hello All, I'm co-editing an upcoming issue of *Media-N <https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors>*, the peer-reviewed journal of the College Art Association's New Media Caucus, on the topic of digital art, media, and climate. *The deadline for abstracts is July 31. * I've included a list of suggestions for book reviews below the CFP, too. Please share widely. Thanks, Corinna *Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus **invites submissions for a special themed issue:* [image: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room.] Image: KC Green. Alt text: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room. *As the World Burns: On Media and Climate* Guest Editors: Corinna Kirsch, PhD (Pratt Institute) and Rebecca Uliasz (Duke University) *Deadline for abstracts: Monday, July 31, 2023* For this special issue of *Media-N* <https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors>, the editors invite abstracts on topics related to the history, theory, and aesthetics of digital media and climate. We hope to shed light on the long history of digital art and media’s participation in planetary processes connected to climate change, including the challenges posed by new media art’s ongoing culpability and participation in its advancement, and the overarching effects of these actions on social, perceptual, and cognitive registers, both globally and individually. Through this form of eco-criticism, we approach two acute developments faced today, each bearing enormous and unevenly distributed threats to a globalized world: climate change and the proliferation of data-driven technology across nearly every social sphere. We also seek alternatives to climate discourse’s hyper-focus on present-day structures by appealing to deep histories and non-western approaches to the ambiguous interconnection of media and “nature.” In so doing, we see that the relationship between media and climate is not a new situation by any means, nor is it a universal one: the Anthropocene began prior to this century, with geological shifts recorded at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and, even further back, to the European colonization of the Americas. As Andreas Malm has put it, “We can never be in the heat of the moment, only in the heat of this ongoing past.” Questions informing the special issue include: In what ways are new media scholars, activists, and artists engaging with the Earth-altering processes of technology? How have practitioners, scholars, and activists working with digital media illuminated the way agency, subjectivity, and environment is defined and operationalized in diverse geo- and socio-political contexts? What alternatives might be sought through appealing to indigenous and other forms of climate knowledge, cultivated by communities that have long found themselves subjected to colonially-induced climate change? As a method of promoting cross-disciplinary conversation among the new media community, we are seeking project reports, exhibition and event reviews, interviews, and manifestos in addition to formal research papers. Topics of potential interest to the editors include, but are not limited to: - Questions related to weather, climate, and digital infrastructures - Weather and meteorology in media and systems-based practices, e.g., climate control in museums, solar powered art, and media projects with natural radio - Relation between media aesthetics and environmental “injustices,” e.g., eco-fascism and climate-change denialism - Elemental, thermal, atmospheric, infrastructural and other forms of media that aren’t exclusively digital - Non-western and indigenous histories and theories of art, digital media, and the environment - Environmental media and digital or financial capitalism, e.g., blockchain, algorithmic forecasting, and predictive simulations - Climate fiction, futurities, and imaginaries, including multi-species assemblages - Environmental media and digital colonialism and neocolonialism - Labor, subjectivity, and psychic dimensions of environmental media *To submit an abstract for consideration, *please send *200-300 word abstracts* and a condensed (under 5 pg.) *CV* to the following individuals by *Monday, July 31, 2023*: - Guest Editor, Corinna Kirsch: *corinna.kirsch(a)gmail.com <corinna.kirsch(a)gmail.com>* - Guest Editor, Rebecca Uliasz: *rebecca.uliasz(a)gmail.com <rebecca.uliasz(a)gmail.com>* - Interim Executive Editor, Chelsea Thompto: *chelsea.l.thompto(a)gmail.com <chelsea.l.thompto(a)gmail.com> * - Executive Editor, Johanna Gosse: *johannagosse(a)gmail.com <johannagosse(a)gmail.com> * *Final Submission Length Guidelines:* - *Articles: 6,000-8,000 word range* - *Artist's projects: 4,000-6,000 word range* - *Interviews and Reviews: 1,000-3,000 word range* Book reviews of possible interest: - Boaz Levin, et al., Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production - Stephen J. Pyne, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next - Sabine Himmelsbach, et al., Coding Care Towards a Technology for Nature - Jennifer Gabrys, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle, 2022 - Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543651/discard-studies/> - Nicole Starosielski, Media Hot and Cold <https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold> - A “Cloud” round-up? Possible texts include: Yuriko Furuhata, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control; Alix Johnson, Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland - A “Plastics” round-up? Possible texts include: Heather Davis, Plastic Matter; Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste Corinna Kirsch, PhD Lecturer, Art History and Criticism Stony Brook University, State University of New York Phone: +1 (936) 697-1902 Pronouns: She, they Current: "As the World Burns," *Media-N* (abstracts due July 31) <https://arthist.net/archive/38999> **************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. *****************************************************************************************************************

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CFP of Possible Interest? On Media and Climate
by Corinna Kirsch 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Hello All, I'm co-editing an upcoming issue of *Media-N <https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors>*, the peer-reviewed journal of the College Art Association's New Media Caucus, on the topic of digital art, media, and climate. *The deadline for abstracts is July 31. * I've included a list of suggestions for book reviews below the CFP, too. Please share widely. Thanks, Corinna *Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus **invites submissions for a special themed issue:* [image: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room.] Image: KC Green. Alt text: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room. *As the World Burns: On Media and Climate* Guest Editors: Corinna Kirsch, PhD (Pratt Institute) and Rebecca Uliasz (Duke University) *Deadline for abstracts: Monday, July 31, 2023* For this special issue of *Media-N* <https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors>, the editors invite abstracts on topics related to the history, theory, and aesthetics of digital media and climate. We hope to shed light on the long history of digital art and media’s participation in planetary processes connected to climate change, including the challenges posed by new media art’s ongoing culpability and participation in its advancement, and the overarching effects of these actions on social, perceptual, and cognitive registers, both globally and individually. Through this form of eco-criticism, we approach two acute developments faced today, each bearing enormous and unevenly distributed threats to a globalized world: climate change and the proliferation of data-driven technology across nearly every social sphere. We also seek alternatives to climate discourse’s hyper-focus on present-day structures by appealing to deep histories and non-western approaches to the ambiguous interconnection of media and “nature.” In so doing, we see that the relationship between media and climate is not a new situation by any means, nor is it a universal one: the Anthropocene began prior to this century, with geological shifts recorded at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and, even further back, to the European colonization of the Americas. As Andreas Malm has put it, “We can never be in the heat of the moment, only in the heat of this ongoing past.” Questions informing the special issue include: In what ways are new media scholars, activists, and artists engaging with the Earth-altering processes of technology? How have practitioners, scholars, and activists working with digital media illuminated the way agency, subjectivity, and environment is defined and operationalized in diverse geo- and socio-political contexts? What alternatives might be sought through appealing to indigenous and other forms of climate knowledge, cultivated by communities that have long found themselves subjected to colonially-induced climate change? As a method of promoting cross-disciplinary conversation among the new media community, we are seeking project reports, exhibition and event reviews, interviews, and manifestos in addition to formal research papers. Topics of potential interest to the editors include, but are not limited to: - Questions related to weather, climate, and digital infrastructures - Weather and meteorology in media and systems-based practices, e.g., climate control in museums, solar powered art, and media projects with natural radio - Relation between media aesthetics and environmental “injustices,” e.g., eco-fascism and climate-change denialism - Elemental, thermal, atmospheric, infrastructural and other forms of media that aren’t exclusively digital - Non-western and indigenous histories and theories of art, digital media, and the environment - Environmental media and digital or financial capitalism, e.g., blockchain, algorithmic forecasting, and predictive simulations - Climate fiction, futurities, and imaginaries, including multi-species assemblages - Environmental media and digital colonialism and neocolonialism - Labor, subjectivity, and psychic dimensions of environmental media *To submit an abstract for consideration, *please send *200-300 word abstracts* and a condensed (under 5 pg.) *CV* to the following individuals by *Monday, July 31, 2023*: - Guest Editor, Corinna Kirsch: *corinna.kirsch(a)gmail.com <corinna.kirsch(a)gmail.com>* - Guest Editor, Rebecca Uliasz: *rebecca.uliasz(a)gmail.com <rebecca.uliasz(a)gmail.com>* - Interim Executive Editor, Chelsea Thompto: *chelsea.l.thompto(a)gmail.com <chelsea.l.thompto(a)gmail.com> * - Executive Editor, Johanna Gosse: *johannagosse(a)gmail.com <johannagosse(a)gmail.com> * *Final Submission Length Guidelines:* - *Articles: 6,000-8,000 word range* - *Artist's projects: 4,000-6,000 word range* - *Interviews and Reviews: 1,000-3,000 word range* Book reviews of possible interest: - Boaz Levin, et al., Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production <https://i-n-g-a.com/products/mining-photography-the-ecological-footprint-of…> - Stephen J. Pyne, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next <https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391635/the-pyrocene> - Sabine Himmelsbach, et al., Coding Care Towards a Technology for Nature <https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/64542-coding-care> - Jennifer Gabrys, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle, 2022 <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/citizens-of-worlds> - Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power - Nicole Starosielski, Media Hot and Cold - A “Cloud” round-up? Possible texts include: Yuriko Furuhata, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control; Alix Johnson, Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland - A “Plastics” round-up? Possible texts include: Heather Davis, Plastic Matter; Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste -- *Corinna Kirsch, PhD* | Visiting Assistant Professor *PRATT INSTITUTE* History of Art and Design ckirsch9(a)pratt.edu

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16th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods in New York City
by Renzo Taddei 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

*Apologies for cross-posting. A few seats are still available. Please disseminate this call to potentially interested parties. * *16th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods in New York City* July 24 to August 4, 2023 – 9 AM to 12 PM EDT The Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (CIFAS) is pleased to announce the 16th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods. The Field School aims to offer training in the foundations and practice of ethnographic methods. The faculty works closely with participants to identify the required field methods to address their academic or professional needs. The Field School is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students in social sciences and other fields of study that use qualitative approaches (such as education, communication, cultural studies, health, social work, human ecology, development studies, and consumer behavior, among others), applied social scientists, professionals, and researchers who have an interest in learning more about ethnographic methods and their applications. *Program:* - - Foundations of ethnographic research - Theory and practice: social theories in the field - Ethics - Decolonial approaches - Research design - Data generation techniques - Planning the logistics of field research - Digital ethnography - Ethnography in interface with Social Network Analysis and other trends in the field of the digital humanities - Ethnography in specific fields of activity (applied social sciences, health, social service, environmental studies, public policy design, business, and others) - Principles of organization and indexation of field data - Analyzing field data; qualitative analysis software packages: basic principles The total workload of the course is 30 hours. In this edition of the summer school, the option of earning credits is not available. Classes will meet on the campus of Columbia University. Places are limited. The tuition fee is US$ 1,200. The application should be completed online *here* <http://cifas.us/field-school-registration-form/>. For more information, please see https://cifas.us/field-school/ or email us at fieldschool(a)cifas.us.

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