Resources
The lab research community likes to share our work with others in a multitude of formats - a couple of them being books and booklets. Below we share a few of the resources we have created in the last few years.
Breaking and Making Code Poems
Edited by Rachel Douglas-Jones, Marisa Cohn, and Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding. Published in 2023
Code poetry is a form of experimental writing and coding. Both writing and coding pay attention to the poetics of syntax, grammar, and punctuations, considering natural and computer languages as playful and aesthetic materials. This mix of languages is called “codework”, a genre coined by poet-theorist Alan Sondeim which he describes as “the computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer”. Though textuality is an important element in language that contains meaning yet it requires interpretation, I want to point to the aspect of performativity in computer code and natural languages. One might draw upon John Langshaw Austin’s Speech-Act theory in thinking about the things that you can do with performative speech, in which the utterance of words carries inherent actions beyond simply making statements. However, code execution is different from the speech-act, because computer code, especially high-level programming language, is written for both humans and machines. When a piece of source code is executed, the computer is doing something immediately, for example, the translation of high-level code to binary code, or to display certain visual and textual materials on a web page. In this way, there are different kinds of readers beyond the human.
Practicing Integrity
Edited by Rachel Douglas-Jones and Susan Wright. Published in 2020
How do researchers bring research integrity to life? This was the question that the authors of this booklet, pursued between 2017 and 2019. Following the publication of the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity in 2014, the Danish Ministry
for Education funded three projects to investigate how the Code is operating in practice. This booklet arises from the ethnographic results of one of these projects, Practicing Integrity
for Education funded three projects to investigate how the Code is operating in practice. This booklet arises from the ethnographic results of one of these projects, Practicing Integrity
GDPR Deletion Poetry - 2018 Edition
Edited by Rachel Douglas-Jones and Marisa Cohn. Published in 2018
The GDPR Deletion Poems collection is the result of two “Great Deletion Poetry Raves” held in May 2018, at the launch of the European General Data Protection Regulation. Out of the many erasure poems created in Copenhagen and Oxford, Rachel Douglas-Jones and Marisa Cohn, co-heads of the ETHOSLab at the IT University of Copenhagen, have selected twenty that highlight poetic license, creativity and engagement with the new protections of GDPR.