Anna Foka
Anna Foka is Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities administered by the Department for Archives, Museums, Libraries and Cultural Heritage (ABM) Uppsala University, and Associate Professor (docent) in Digital Humanities; she was appointed in 2021. Her academic background is in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology (MA 2006, PhD 2009, University of Liverpool) as well as Performance Studies (NCU Athens, Greece).[1]
Research
Anna Foka's work with digital research infrastructures[2] [3] has led to the digital transformation of the arts and humanities disciplines at Uppsala University [4]. Her research blends digital technology with historical and artistic disciplines, spanning classical studies[5], ancient history and archaeology[6], gender and humour, classical reception on film and TV[7], game studies[8], digital cultural heritage studies[9], augmented and virtual reality for museums, digital art history, digital visualization, AI and GIS for humanities research[10][11][12]
Publications
Foka, A., Barker, E., Konstantinidou, K., Mostofian, N., Demiroglu, O., C., Kiesling, B. and Talatas, L. 2020. ’Semantically geo-annotating an ancient Greek “travel guide” Itineraries, Chronotopes, Networks, and Linked Data’. In 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities’20), November 3–6, 2020, Seattle, WA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [1].
Barker, E., Foka, A., and Konstantinidou, K. (2020) ‘Coding for the Many, Transforming Knowledge for All: Annotating Digital Documents’. In Booth, A. and Posner, M. (eds) Varieties of Digital Humanities (DH Methodologies), PMLA the Modern Language Association of America. 135.1: 195-202.
Golub, K., Göransson, E., Foka, A., Huvila, I. (2019). ‘Digital humanities in Sweden and its Infrastructure: Status quo and the sine qua non’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Foka, A., Misharina, A., Arvidsson, V., Gelfgren, S.(2018) ‘Beyond humanities qua digital: Spatial and material development for digital research infrastructures’. in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 33(2): 264-278.
Foka, A., Barker, E., Konstantinidou, K., Demiroglu, O. C., Mostofian, N., Talatas, L., Kiesling, B. (in press 2021) ‘Mapping Ancient Heritage Narratives with Digital Tools’ in Champion, E. (Ed). (2021). Virtual Heritage: A Concise Guide. Ubiquity Press, London, UK.
Champion E. and Foka, A. (2020) ‘Art History, Heritage Games, and Virtual Reality’ in The International Handbook of Digital Humanities and Art History, Brown, K. (eds) London and NY: Routledge
Dunn, S, Earl, G. Foka, A. Wooton, W. (2019) ‘The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary’. In Tula Giannini and Jonathan Bowden (red.) Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research, London and New York: Springer: 253-271.
External links
- Anna Foka publications indexed by Google Scholar
References
- ↑ "Anna Foka - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se.
- ↑ Malazita, James W.; Teboul, Ezra J.; Rafeh, Hined. "Digital Humanities as Epistemic Cultures: How DH Labs Make Knowledge, Objects, and Subjects". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 014 (3).
- ↑ https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/33/2/264/3772149
- ↑ https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/35/3/547/5549976
- ↑ Foka, Anna; Arvidsson, Viktor (May 19, 2016). "Experiential Analogies: A Sonic Digital Ekphrasis as a Digital Humanities Project". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 010 (2).
- ↑ https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:773422/FULLTEXT01.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ↑ "Edinburgh University Press Books". edinburghuniversitypress.com.
- ↑ Chapman, Adam; Foka, Anna; Westin, Jonathan (July 3, 2017). "Introduction: what is historical game studies?". Rethinking History. 21 (3): 358–371. doi:10.1080/13642529.2016.1256638 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Dunn, Stuart; Earl, Graeme; Foka, Anna; Wootton, Will (January 16, 2019). "Spatial Narratives in Museums and Online: The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary". In Giannini, Tula; Bowen, Jonathan P. Museums and Digital Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer International Publishing. pp. 253–271. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_12. ISBN 978-3-319-97456-9 – via Springer Link. Search this book on
- ↑ "The digital Periegesis". www.periegesis.org.
- ↑ Barker, Elton; Foka, Anna; Konstantinidou, Kyriaki (January 16, 2020). "Coding for the Many, Transforming Knowledge for All: Annotating Digital Documents". PMLA. 135 (1): 195–202. doi:10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.195 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Foka, Anna; Barker, Elton; Konstantinidou, Kyriaki; Mostofian, Nasrin; Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Kiesling, Brady; Talatas, Linda (November 3, 2020). "Semantically geo-annotating an ancient Greek "travel guide" Itineraries, Chronotopes, Networks, and Linked Data". Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–9. doi:10.1145/3423337.3429433. ISBN 9781450381635 – via ACM Digital Library. Unknown parameter
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