Transmission: An interdisciplinary research project exploring making, curating and representing knowledge

许多创意和传播从业者正在使用数字技术进行研究。该提案将利用大学以外的研究成果，展示网站和博客、电影、活动和物品在向一系列社区分享想法方面的创新用途。它标志着从将数字技术视为主题或方法转向关键的传输工具和知识网站。它旨在确立研究人员如何创造、策划和表现知识的理念（超越谈话和文字）可以吸引和涉及新的受众，无论是内部和外部的传统研究设置。该提案通过两个主要活动做到这一点：一个新的应用合作研究项目“行动自由”;自行车，布卢默和女自行车手在19世纪世纪英国“和一个国际研讨会（伴随用户主导的研讨会和展览）。该研究项目带来了生活动手知识制作过程，涉及新的档案研究和现有的当代自行车数据的分析，与工艺从业者（裁缝，艺术家和电影制片人）合作，从130年的专利中制作女性自行车服装。它结合了新的数字技术（笔记本电脑、照相机、视频）、社交网站（twitter、博客）、经典的剪裁技术、粗花呢面料（有一点扭曲）和一台老式手摇缝纫机。以数字方式记录这一过程，在一系列公共场合（如节日和受欢迎的中心伦敦自行车咖啡馆和研讨会）进行演讲，展示和表演结果，将为思想，实践和技术带来多维参与，扩展组织者的技能，并为不同社区的社会科学研究提供新的切入点。国际研讨会展示了尖端项目，提供了一个平台来辩论和讨论实践的好处和后果，开发新技能（通过用户主导的研讨会），并为未来的潜在合作建立新的关系。第一天将有演讲、表演、讲座和/或图尔斯之旅。将鼓励发言者尝试将专题讨论会作为一个多维度知识平台的想法，调解对话，促进新的切入点进入他们的想法，探索传播的背景和刺激新的成果（这可能不遵循演讲者和就座观众的惯例）。第二天将包括一系列以用户为主导的技能研讨会，这将使进一步的讨论和实践经验，同时鼓励更多的人参与并展示他们的工作。活动结束后将展出物品、照片、网站、电影和其他材料。该提案的重点是制作，策展和代表知识的新方法是及时的，因为目前的政治转向开放获取，如政府的“开放数据白色文件”（Maude 2012）和Willetts（2012）呼吁在共享知识的“地震转变”。虽然这些行动呼吁的重点是开放数据访问和将期刊文章从付费墙中解放出来，但这项研究以不同的方式处理这个问题;通过新的数字技术，平台和材料实现的新形式的知识表示的潜力（和陷阱）。它将促进一系列产业、政策、创意和学术界之间的知识交流，为未来的合作发展关键技能和网络，从而展示新形式的知识传播和交流的影响。将通过一系列产出与从业人员、决策者和研究人员分享研究结果：一个动态网站和博客、一次国际研讨会、用户主导的讲习班、一份简短的政策报告、两份会议文件、一篇期刊文章、一系列短片和两个展览。

Many creative and communication practitioners are using digital technologies for their research. This proposal will harness what is being done outside university-based research to showcase innovative uses of websites and blogs, films, events and objects in the sharing of ideas to a range of communities. It marks a shift away from considering digital technologies as subject matter or method to critical transmission tools and sites of knowledge. It sets out to establish the idea that how researchers make, curate and represent knowledge (beyond talk and text) can engage and involve new audiences, both inside and outside traditional research settings.The proposal does this via two main activities; a new applied collaborative research project 'Freedom of Movement; the bike, the bloomer and the female cyclist in 19th Century Britain' and an international symposium (with accompanying user-led workshops and exhibition). The research project brings to life hands-on knowledge making process involving new archival research and analysis of existing contemporary cycling data with the making of women's cycle garments from 130 year old patents in collaboration with craft practitioners (tailor, artist and filmmaker). It combines new digital technologies (laptop, camera, video), social networking sites (twitter, blogs), classic tailoring techniques, tweed fabric (with a twist) and a period hand-cranked sewing machine. Documenting the process digitally, giving talks and exhibiting and performing the results in a range of public contexts (such as festivals and a popular central London bike café and workshop) will bring to life multi-dimensional engagements with ideas, practices and technologies, extending the organiser's skills and offering new entry points into social science research for diverse communities. The international symposium showcases cutting edge projects, provides a platform to debate and discuss the benefits and consequences of practice, develop new skills (via user-led workshops) and generate new relationships for potential future collaborations. Day one will feature presentations, performances, talks and/or tours. Speakers will be encouraged to experiment with the idea of a symposium as a multi-dimensional knowledge platform, mediating conversations, facilitating new entry points into their ideas, exploring the context of transmission and stimulating new outcomes (which may not follow conventions of a speaker and seated audience). Day two will include a series of user-led skills workshops which will enable further discussion and hands-on experience, while encouraging more people to get involved and showcase their work. Objects, photos, websites, films and other materials will be exhibited after the event. The proposal's focus on new ways of making, curating and representing knowledge is timely due to the current political shift toward open access, as outlined in the Government's 'Open Data White Paper' (Maude 2012) and Willetts's (2012) call for a 'seismic shift' in sharing knowledge. While these calls to action focus on open data access and liberating journal articles from paywalls, this research approaches the issue in a different way; via the potential (and pitfalls) of new forms of knowledge representation made possible through new digital technologies, platforms and materialities. It will enable knowledge exchange between a range of industry, policy, creative and academic communities, developing critical skills and networks for future collaborations, thereby demonstrating the impact of new forms of knowledge transmission and exchange. Findings will be shared with practitioners, policy makers and researchers through a series of outputs: a dynamic website and blog, an international symposium, user-led workshops, a short policy report, two conference papers, a journal article, a series of short films and two exhibitions.