Cultural Roots for Computing: The Case of African Diasporic Orature and Computational Narrative in the GRIOT System
Cultural Roots for Computing: The Case of African Diasporic Orature and Computational Narrative in the GRIOT System
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计算的文化根源：非洲移民演讲案例和 GRIOT 系统中的计算叙事
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2007
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D. Harrell
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D. Harrell
文化习俗和价值观隐含在所有的计算系统中。然而，除了那些在围绕计算实践的话语中享有传统特权的文化实践和价值观之外，开发具有明确批判性参与和基础的系统并不常见。我断言，参与通常被排斥的文化价值和实践可以潜在地刺激计算创新，并可以激发富有表现力的计算生产。特别是，表示和操作语义内容的不同方式以及人类和我们的（数字）工件之间的独特关系可以形成新的技术和表达性计算实践的基础。这个想法是通过使用GRIOT系统的例子来实现的。[15,21,22] GRIOT是一个实现交互式和生成式计算叙事的平台。它的基本理论基础是来自计算机科学、认知语言学和符号学的代数语义。在GRIOT中内置的初始系统能够根据用户输入生成诗歌。格里奥深受非洲散居传统的影响，如[30]所述，以及[20]所述的社会文化参与。本文反映了在计算实践中明确文化价值所涉及的挑战，包括将其与本质主义特征相关联，对特定文化的文化生产形式进行刻板印象，以及使文化掠夺成为可能，即使用多样化的美学传统只是为了赋予文化特权传统，而不是丰富以多元世界观为中心的计算技术。
Cultural practices and values are implicitly built into all computational systems. However, it is not common to develop systems with explicit critical engagement with, and foundations in, cultural practices and values aside from those traditionally privileged in discourse surrounding computing practices. I assert that engaging commonly excluded cultural values and practices can potentially spur computational innovation, and can invigorate expressive computational production. In particular, diverse ways of representing and manipulating semantic content and distinctive relationships between humans and our (digital) artifacts can form the basis for new technical and expressive computing practices. This idea is developed using the example of the GRIOT system. [15, 21, 22] GRIOT is a platform for implementing interactive and generative computational narratives. Its underlying theoretical bases are in algebraic semantics from computer science, cognitive linguistics, and semiotics. Initial systems built in GRIOT enable generation of poetry in response to user input. GRIOT is deeply informed by African diasporic traditions of orature as described in [30], and socio-cultural engagement as described in [20]. This paper presents reflections on the challenges involved in making cultural values explicit in computing practices, including imputing them with essentialist characteristics [8], stereotyping cultural production forms of particular cultures, and enabling cultural plunder, i.e. using diverse aesthetic traditions only to empower culturally privileged traditions rather than enriching computing technologies centered in a plurality of worldviews.