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1.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Beyond humanities qua digital : Spatial and material development for digital research infrastructures 2018 Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 33:2, s. 264-278 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Universities around the world have increasingly turned to digital infrastructures as a way to revamp the arts and humanities. This article contributes a fresh understanding by examining the material development of HumlabX, a research laboratory for digital humanities at Umeå University, Sweden. Specifically, we approach the empirical case as a timeline of research funding, projects, events, and deliverables to examine how the research laboratory as an organizational and material space developed and evolved in relation to new technology investments. Based on our analysis, we argue that while digital research infrastructures can, indeed, stimulate innovation in and around research, aimed to produce new knowledge, digital technologies carry social and material implications that affect organizational processes. We show that while knowledge production processes at HumlabX were highly influenced by the infrastructural legacy of the past, they indeed directed scholars toward innovation. By discussing these implications in detail, we move beyond the debate of humanities qua digital, and demonstrate the need for scholars of digital humanities to engage in the development of policies for digital research infrastructures. Using a Swedish case study, we argue that research laboratories for the digital humanities must be scrutinized and should be fully exposed as socio-material organizations that develop, and should develop, over time. In particular, we stress the need to ensure that digital humanities laboratories are sustainable and open for redevelopment.
2.	Arvidsson, Viktor, 1984-, et al. (författare) Digital gender : perspective, phenomena, practice 2015 Ingår i: First Monday. - Chicago : University of Illinois Press. - 1396-0466. ; 20:4 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Past research on gender online has made important land gains but under-theorizes the Internet as a passive, fixed, and somewhat insubstantial space or context. By contrast, this special issue draws on new material thinking to put into questions the very notion of “cyberspace” as a distinct realm. In this vein, the contents of this issue critically examine how the Internet and related digital technologies actively “work” to maintain or transform systems of oppression, as displayed, for example, in the digital doing(s) of gender. They also show how digital technologies and related concepts can be used to challenge current understandings of race, class, and gender and to produce and provoke new forms of knowledge. While the contents of this issue are drawn from different fields and display great diversity, the individual contributions of each author helps to chart out three potent venues for future Internet research: namely digital gender as perspective, phenomena, and practice.
3.	Barker, Elton, et al. (författare) Coding for the Many, Transforming Knowledge for All : Annotating Digital Documents 2020 Ingår i: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. - : MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOC AMER. - 0030-8129 .- 1938-1530. ; 135:1, s. 195-202 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Annotation—“A Note Added to Anything Written, By Way of Explanation or Comment”—Is Almost as Old as Writing Itself (“annotation”). Among the first texts to be written down, Homer's oral poems survive thanks first to Hellenistic scholars, whose comments and explanations formed the editions that came down to us, and second to later manuscript technology, which enabled the painstaking copying of both the texts and the notes associated with them (see fig. 1). At the I Annotate 2019 conference, Gardner Campbell reflected on the meaning ofto noteand identified as its essence the idea of signing: “A sign that we formulate, a sign that we leave, a sign thatpointsto something, points to a meaning, points to another word, but also points to thepointer.We leave signs;weleave signs;Iannotate. The agency in the word note is extraordinary” (00:07:35-58). To note is, as Campbell'skeynoteput it, a fundamental act of attention, of sharing, as basic as “water” or “love” (00:06:16-00:07:25). To note is an essential human act.
4.	Barker, Elton, et al. (författare) Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece 2023 Ingår i: Literary Geographies. - 0324-8305 .- 2397-1797. ; 9:1, s. 124-160 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of narrative, the entities of place and time, relate to and intersect with each other. In this article, we establish a framework for systematically investigating Pausanias’s chronotopes through a process of semantic annotation. We describe our typology for categorizing place and time, with the aim of enabling this text’s database of information — the descriptions of the built environment, its temples, statues, etc. — to be mapped and analysed. Our emphasis, however, is on how the technology equally facilitates close reading, as we trace how individual locations, objects and people relate to each other through the unfolding of chronotopes, and examine how in turn these chronotopes transform our understanding of the spaces of Greece and Greece as a place. We conclude by offering reflections on the potential for semantic annotation of the kind documented here not only for conducting chronotopic investigations of literary geographies, but also for bringing the textualization of space into direct dialogue with the material culture on the ground.
5.	Challenge the past / diversify the future : Proceedings of the International Conference: Centre for Digital Humanities at Gothenburg University 2015 Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract Challenge the Past / Diversify the Future is a multidisciplinary conference for scholars and practitioners who study the implementation and potential of visual and multi-sensory representations to challenge and diversify our understanding of history and culture. This volume contains an overview of all the presentations.
6.	Challenge the past / diversify the future - proceedings 2015 Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Challenge the Past / Diversify the Future is a multidisciplinary conference for scholars and practitioners who study the implementation and potential of visual and multi-sensory representations to challenge and diversify our understanding of history and culture. This volume contains an overview of all the presentations.
7.	Champion, Erik, et al. (författare) Art history, heritage games, and virtual reality 2020 Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History. - New York : Routledge, 2020. \| Series: [Routledge art history and visual studies companions] : Taylor & Francis. - 9780429505188 - 9781138585584 ; , s. 238-253 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
8.	Champion, Erik Malcom, et al. (författare) Art History, Heritage Games, And Virtual Reality 2020. - 1 Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781138585584 ; , s. 238-252 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract This chapter focuses on how the engaging and entertaining medium of virtual reality and serious games has the potential to connect traditional galleries, libraries, archives, and museum (GLAM) sector organizations with contemporary audiences by blending old traditions and new technologies. Following a short definition of virtual reality, we discuss the relevance and increasing intersecting importance of virtual heritage and serious games, especially those dealing with topics and issues in art history. We suggest that while the majority of studies deal with physical or digital maintenance and display of art-historical objects; public engagement can further be achieved with the aid of participatory, sensory, and interactive platforms.
9.	Chapman, Adam, et al. (författare) What is historical game studies? 2017 Ingår i: Rethinking history. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1364-2529 .- 1470-1154. ; 21:3, s. 358-371 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
10.	Deviant Women : Cultural, Linguistic, and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity 2015 Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary contexts. The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.
11.	Dunn, Stuart, et al. (författare) Spatial Narratives in Museums and Online : The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary 2019. - 1 Ingår i: Museums and Digital Culture. - London and New York : Springer. - 9783319974576 ; , s. 253-271 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our “basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness”; and what others have called “object itineraries” or “object biographies”. A comparison will be made of the same museums’ online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries – historic and modern - as a subject of both history and historiography.
12.	Dunn, Stuart, et al. (författare) Spatial narratives in museums and online : the birth of the digital object itinerary 2019 Ingår i: Museums and digital culture. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319974569 - 9783319974576 ; , s. 253-271 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Museums represent complex layers of place. From carefully managed curatorial spaces, to exhibition environments, to the layout of display cases, to the representation of distant parts embodied in the collections of the great encyclopedic collections, the negotiation, representation and presentation of place has always been central to the mission of any museum. This chapter will examine the history of how museums (especially museum catalogues) present place, from early origins to the Internet. A set of case studies will be examined as a means of exploring how, where and in what form art objects and artefacts first began to be transported from non-Western to Western nations for display in the museums of Western capitals, thus representing the origins of what Cuno has called our "basic and inevitable cultural interrelatedness"; and what others have called "object itineraries" or "object biographies". A comparison will be made of the same museums' online representation of the same places today. It will thus be possible to present a framework for considering object itineraries—historic and modern—as a subject of both history and historiography.
13.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) A Digital Periegesis : Implementing Spatial Research Infrastructures for Classical History and Archaeology 2023 Ingår i: Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies. - Leeds : ARC Humanities Press. - 9781641894692 - 9781802700794 ; , s. 205-223 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract The classics have in many ways pioneered the application of digital methods to narrative spatial analysis and developed strong collaborative engagement with infrastructure, producing Pelagios, an ever-growing platform for a plethora of spatial databases and gazetteers, as well as Recogito a digital annotation tool. These two successful examples show a pressing need for community building around SRIs for early modern and medieval Scandinavia to ensure sustainable design, long-term preservation, and further collaborative development. This article discusses this development in the context of the digital periegesis project and the resources used for Pausanias's description of Greece
14.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Beauty and the Beast : Femininity, Animals and Humour in Middle Comedy 2011 Ingår i: Classica et Mediaevalia. - Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. - 0106-5815 .- 1604-9411. ; 62, s. 51-80 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Approximating humans to animals is a technique employed in Greek Literature, drawing on epic stylistics. The topsy-turvy nature of Old Comedy encouraged the use of animal choruses and characters. In Middle Comedy, their dramatic use appears limited: a number of similes are built around refernces to animals for both male and female characters, producing social comments in humorous form. This paper explores how animal semantics in selected fragments (Alexis and Epicrates) impart occasional otherness to female entities (women and hetairai) reinforcing the sense of difference from the norm, whereas on other occasions they subtly underline the importance of females in the civic environment.
15.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Beauty and the Beast : Femininity, animals and humour in Greek Middle Comedy 2011 Ingår i: Classica et Mediaevalia. - Århus, Copenhagen, Denmark : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. - 0106-5815 .- 1604-9411. ; December:62, s. 51-80 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Approximating humans to animals is a common technique deployed in Greek Literature starting as early as the Epics. In early performances of drama, the topsy turvy nature of Old Comedy encouraged the use of animal characters; choruses of animals, anthropomorphized animals, and animalized humans are common strategies used among Old Comedy playwrights. In Middle Comedy their dramatic use appears limited, yet they are not completely excluded from the repertoire. A number of similes are built around references to animals for both male and female characters. This technique (which draws on epic stylistics) produces social comments in humorous form, especially by assimilating women to tamed and untamed animals. This article explores these animalized manifestations of feminity in selected fragments of Middle Comedy, focusing on Eubulus’ Procris, Alexis’ Isostasion, and The Chorus, and Antilais by Epicrates. The animal references impart occasional ‘otherness’ to several female entities (γυναῖκες and ἑταῖραι), reinforcing the sense of difference from the ‘norm’, whereas on other occasions they reconfirm the importance of females in the civic environment. Across these fragments, I show how animal imagery outlines gendered alterities within the context of normative Athenian ideology. Ultimately, I compare the semantics of animality and how it is humorously interwoven into femininity in Old and Middle Comedy.
16.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Beyond Deviant : Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography 2015 Ingår i: Deviant Women. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783653995923 - 9783653995923 - 9783631643297 - 9783653033199 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Early Byzantine historiography offers two contradictory portrayals of Theodora (Crowned Empress 427-458 CE). Whereas in Procopius’ Wars of Justinian and Buildings she appears to be a courageous and influential empress, in his later work, Secret History, she is represented as a deviant female figure. Procopius’ narrative of Theodora is overall disapproving of her character and actions. He discusses her early years as a ‘shameless’ performer and a prostitute, brought up in the social margins of Constantinople; Similarly, during her reign, he describes her exercise of power over the palace and her subjects as cruel and violent, driven by premeditated self-interest. In this chapter, I aim to discuss Theodora’s portrayal by Procopius as a sociologically deviant female; it is a systematic study of what the author considers to be social norm violations that are subject to social sanction. I will specifically concentrate on Theodora’s depiction as a sexually deviant young performer. I will then focus upon actions of cruelty and violence in her political and social career as an Empress. I will show how the paradigm of Theodora, in Procopius’ Secret History, can be read as both making visible coercive social, political and religious power structures, as well as, disenfranchising femininity in early Byzantium.
17.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Contemplating a Digital Periegesis : DigHist – Perspectives on Digital History, edited by Sara Ellis Nilsson 2019 Ingår i: Scandia. - Lund : Vetenskapsrådet. - 0036-5483. Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
18.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Critically assessing AI/ML for cultural heritage : potentials and challenges 2023 Ingår i: Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781803928555 - 9781803928562 ; , s. 815-825 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract This chapter provides a critical examination of the promise of AI technology with a focus on museums and cultural heritage organisations. We argue that while AI shows great potential for digitalisation, collections management and curation, its implementation is a complex endeavour. First, we discuss artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with great potential such as computer vision and natural language processing, as well as the implementation of AI for heritage encounters. We then identify a number of challenges in implementing these technologies—namely using technology to address the diversity of human memory and culture that is inherent in cultural heritage collections, but also issues of accessibility and technical know-how. Finally, we envision the future potential of AI for the digitalisation of heritage.
19.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Deconstructing Oedipus : Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite and the classical tradition 2017. - 11 Ingår i: The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture. - Leiden and Boston : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004347717 - 9789004347724 ; , s. 167-186 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract The chapter examines the philosophical dichotomy between Hellenism and Hebraism in order to show how Mighty Aphrodite may be seen as a contemporary example of merging cultural identities, previously thought in contradiction to one another. Allen's reiteration of Oedipal references may be read as a dismantling of Classical Hellenic culture and a rearrangement intended for a 21st century New York setting. Allen constructs a fictional tragic space that is embedded in the main plot and that manifests itself in the form of tragic dramaturgy and scenic conventions.Against this backdrop, Allen's overall use of classical tradition may be considered self-referential: it points out to the director's own understanding of classical culture as a twenty first century Jewish New York film director. Ancient cultural forms mingle with contemporary film and mirror 'the two way relationship between the source text or culture and the new work and receiving elements'. Abort of their original context of antiquity, ritual, drama and myth, tragedy and the very figure of Oedipus are (paradoxically) cinematically deconstructed as humorous, and are granted a place within contemporaneity, finding a specific leeway of expression in classical Hollywood film narratives. The film is a commentary on the potentials of reinstating dominant structures of classical reception per se: Oedipus may become Anti-Oedipus, tragedy may turn into comedy and binary structures such as Hellenism and Hebraism may mingle together in perfect harmony.
20.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Digital Archaeology? Greece on Focus : Tools, methodologies and trends 2017 Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science, as it is a scholarly study of past processes that often combines space, place, natural science, materials and texts in its interpretation. Presently, the majority of practicing archaeologists include digital tools in their work (e.g. data keeping, digital mapping, visualization tools). And recently, digital visualization is trending beyond 3D modelling and landscape reconstruction and into the interactive, scientific visualization of data in order to render relations between geographies and cultures, sensory properties (Betts 2011, Betts 2017, Foka and Arvidsson 2016), external /internal networks and aerial visualizations. On an international level, we have come to speak of the notion of “cyber-archaeology” (Forte 2015): archaeological methods that utilize participatory technology to interact with past artefacts and spaces and to understand the past through reflection and cooperative efforts. Current digital tools and methodologies help capture and display knowledge about the past. While there is considerable room for improvement, both in terms of tools and of methodologies, from composing plain databases to visualizations intended for wider museum audiences, we address here the current progress within Greek archaeological practice and emphasize the importance of sustainable and updated digital research infrastructures in order to enhance access to materials for researchers and laypeople alike.
21.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) (Digital) Bread and Circuses : Reframing Ancient Spectacle for Different Screens 2014 Ingår i: Digital Humanities Australasia 2014. - Perth, Western Australia. Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract It is commonplace that screen-based communication – i.e. TV, cinema, computer screens and ubiquitous devices is continuously mediating cultures (Galloway 2004, Giaccardi et al. 2012). Digital reconstruction is the process of graphically representing ideas and objects (Wileman: 1993). This process, however, requires a conceptual picture to be transferred to in a graphical medium. This paper focuses on the potentials of a conceptual digital construction of a Roman Amphiteatre for multiple screens. I argue that while current ‘historically accurate’ digital depictions of Roman amphitheatres are limited to lifeless and sanitized aerial 3D models, a more innovative, multisensory and participatory reconstruction of entertainment sites for multiple screens can elucidate our understanding of historically and geographically remote social and cultural concepts.I propose new methodological tools for generating discourses that add layers of understanding to our contemporary knowledge of the Roman spectacle. A participatory (embodied- tangible computing) and multisensory (sound and vision) digital recreation of a Roman amphitheatre (along the lines of Betts: 2009, Drucker: 2009, and Favro: 2006) can engineer deeper and constructive analyses of the dynamics and systemic operations regarding [ancient and current] popular entertainment. It can generate questions about the cultural and emotional context of ancient spectacle as well as the potentials and limitations set by our current technological grasp. It can further be applicable in research and education in order to anchor both ’traditional’ research questions, as well as the importance of multiplicity within institutional material infrastructure
22.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Digital gender: a manifesto : report on the research workshop: digital gender: theory, methodology, and practice 2014 Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract While early day Internet research often hailed “Cyberspace” as an arena where individuals would be liberated from the social shackles of their biological gender, a growing body of research makes evident the exaggerations present within these romanticized claims. Though the online gender divide is rapidly eroding, the Internet remains rooted in society at large. While digital technologies can challenge normative views, they therefore often maintain status quo. Consequently, there is a need to revisit old claims and challenge traditional notions of ”Digital Gender”. In this vein, this manifesto reports and synthesizes findings and discussions from an international workshop titled ”Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice”, held at Umeå University, Sweden, in early 2014. Against this backdrop, we chart out a new agenda for research on how the digital intermingle with the social in the production of gender. In particular, we argue that scholars must move past the idea of Internet as a separate – virtual – realm and direct attention to the increasingly complex ways that digital technologies permeate social practices, altering the very fabric of society itself. On the one hand, we stress the need for research that focuses on how particular Internet technologies help maintain as well as challenge normative views of gender. On the other hand, we stress the need to uncover how particular material properties of digital technology affect the (un)making of such views. Overall, we also stress the need for scholars of gender to move beyond binary oppositions and to be appreciative of intersectionality in their analyses of digital gender construction.
23.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Experiential Analogies : A Sonic Digital Ekphrasis as a Digital Humanities Project 2016 Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance Digital Humanities Organizations. - 1938-4122. ; 10:2 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Humanistic uses of digital technologies have opened up new ways to think about, communicate, and discuss historical research. The common use of digital tools to visually represent ancient cultures and sites, however, has also introduced new issues. For example, critics have argued that digital visualisations, largely synonymous with reconstruction in 3D models, often attempt to represent a photorealistic-artificial vision of the past, and may often prove to be a way to communicate history to a large(r) audience [Forte and Siliotti 1997]. Against this backdrop, this article will discuss precisely how technology may help immerse researchers into historically situated life, and radically advance historical research. Adding to related criticisms of ocularcentric traditions of knowledge production, we contribute to this stream of research by arguing that contemporary visual representations of the past often concentrate on visual representations and seemingly maintain antiquity as a sanitised historio-cultural ideal [Westin 2012] [Tziovas 2014]. More specifically, this article seeks to demonstrate the potential of digital humanities to move beyond mere representations on screen and to mobilize other senses (specifically sound) as a historically situated component for research. For this purpose, we focus on the abstract principles and overall methodology for a recreation of the experience of sounds in the Roman amphitheatre.
24.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Foka, A. (2012) Classical Review, Cambridge: RUFFELL (I.A.) Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy. The Art of the Impossible. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013 Ingår i: Classical Review. - Cambridge University Press. - 0009-840X .- 1464-3561. ; 63:1, s. 37-39 Recension (refereegranskat)
25.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Gods, Beasts, and Humans : Relations of Power in Greek Comedy 2009 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
26.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Half-Naked yet Empowered? : Spartacus (2010-) (Ancient) Gender Equality in Contemporary Television 2013 Ingår i: 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. - Honolulu Hawaii. Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract Spartacus is attested in several ancient sources (Plutarch, Appian, and Florus) as the leader of a rebellion against the Roman Republic (73 to 71 BC). Despite that none of Spartacus' historical representations overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming Roman society by abolishing slavery and promoting equality, he has inspired a number of intellectuals across times and cultures as a egalitarian leader. Marx, in the Manchester letter to Engels (1861), considered him a real representative of the ancient 'proletariat’ and members of the German Spartacus League, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. In contemporary popular culture, the most recent reception of the tale of Spartacus is the US Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premiered on Starz in: 2010- followed by a late prequel and a sequel), where he is also portrayed as a just and egalitarian leader.In this paper, I will discuss how Spartacus (2010-) promotes social and gender equality as an ancient virtue within a contemporary context. Unlike Spartacus’ historical and other cinematic representations, women play a major role in the 2010- TV series either as slaves that join the rebellion, inspired by the egalitarian Thracian slave-leader, or wealthy Romans who oppose him. Despite incidental nudity, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, a TV MA rating for graphic violence, and strong sexual content in overexposed video stylization, I will show that female characters evolve from the older sexualized and objectified females of gladiatorial Sword and Sandals (e.g. Warrior and the Slave Girl: 1958) to strong and brave action heroines. Finally, I will discuss how the 2010- TV series reflects upon the impact of equality and feminism in the portrayal of the ancient world in our contemporary popular culture.
27.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Heritage metadata : a digital periegesis 2022 Ingår i: Information and knowledge organisation in digital humanities. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9780367675516 - 9780367675684 - 9781003131816 ; , s. 227-242 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Over the past decades the extraordinary growth of new technologies has made it possible to extract data from literary texts and analyse them using digital tools. This chapter focuses on the process of creating an enriched digital edition of Pausanias's Periegesis Hellados or Description of Greece. The purpose of this research is twofold: to identify 'heritage data' in Pausanias and to describe the technical and epistemological parameters of their aggregation and organisation. In answering the essentially digital humanities research question "how Pausanias's literary heritage information can be best organised and connected to the archaeological record on the ground", the Digital Periegesis project is charting and analysing the relevant digital tools and methods by which extensive semantic annotation and Linked Open Data (LOD) can facilitate the organisation of heritage information in Pausanias's text and its connection to actual archaeological finds. This chapter discusses the potential application of Geographic Information Science (GISc) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for such complex pre-cartesian narrative analysis. Finally, it emphasises the importance of building geo-spatially enriched digital editions collaboratively, involving discipline specialist researchers and information organisation experts, with the aim of interpreting histories of "place".
28.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Heritage Metadata : A Digital Periegesis 2021 Ingår i: Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781003131816 ; , s. 227-242 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Over the past decades the extraordinary growth of new technologies has made it possible to extract data from literary texts and analyse them using digital tools. This chapter focuses on the process of creating an enriched digital edition of Pausanias's Periegesis Hellados or Description of Greece. The purpose of this research is twofold: to identify ‘heritage data’ in Pausanias and to describe the technical and epistemological parameters of their aggregation and organisation. In answering the essentially digital humanities research question “how Pausanias's literary heritage information can be best organised and connected to the archaeological record on the ground”, the Digital Periegesis project is charting and analysing the relevant digital tools and methods by which extensive semantic annotation and Linked Open Data (LOD) can facilitate the organisation of heritage information in Pausanias's text and its connection to actual archaeological finds. This chapter discusses the potential application of Geographic Information Science (GISc) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for such complex pre-cartesian narrative analysis. Finally, it emphasises the importance of building geo-spatially enriched digital editions collaboratively, involving discipline specialist researchers and information organisation experts, with the aim of interpreting histories of “place”.
29.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Introduction to the DHQ Special Issue : Digital Technology in the Study of the Past 2018 Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations. - 1938-4122. ; 12:3 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Digital technology is transforming the assemblage and dissemination of historical information. Museums, libraries, archives, and universities increasingly modify their digital research infrastructures in order to make data open and available (see [Crane, Seales, and Terras 2009]; [Smithies 2014]; [Terras, Nyhan, and Vanhoutte 2013]; cf [Foka et al. 2017]). The imminent assessment and representation of historical data has admittedly challenged the boundaries of historical knowledge and generated new research questions [Drucker 2013] [Nygren, Foka, and Buckland 2014] #nygren2016 [Westin 2014] #westin2015[Chapman, Foka, and Westin 2016] [Foka and Arvidsson 2016]. The process of reconstructing, visualizing and rendering historical data has equally developed together with technology [Westin, Foka, and Chapman 2018]. This is the case in both academic and heritage contexts and in less immediately obvious popular uses, such as the increasingly significant presence and use of history within video games [Chapman 2016]. Regardless of specific context, as this collection of articles shows, the process of digitally capturing and representing historical data is often analogous to and determined by the digital platform used.
30.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Introduction to the dhq special issue : digital technology in the study of the past 2018 Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - 1938-4122. ; 12:3 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This is the guest editors' introduction to the Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue on Digital Technology in the Study of the Past.
31.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Literary and performative portrayal of sex-workers in Greek antiquity 2012 Ingår i: Gender and Language. - : iGala‐ Association for the Study of Language and Gender 2012, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sino, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil. - 1747-6321 .- 1747-633X. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract From Classical antiquity to the late Roman Empire, courtesans (hetairai) and other sex-workers are considered an integral part of elite lifestyle. In reality, actual evidence about them is scattered and limited. As a result of this, recent scholarship and art represented them as more deliberated and charming than citizen wives (eg Jung’s archetypes, Manet’s Olympias etc). However, their variability in textual representation resulted in their recent reconstruction as marginal in status with undefined agency and hierarchy (Davidson: 1997; McClure: 2003; Faraone and McClure: 2006). Most importantly, their textual and performative representation varies significantly. In early Attic Comedy for example (5th and 4th BCE) they feature as silent nudes pawed by men (Aristophanes) but they ‘evolve’ within 200 years to the stock character of New Greek Comedy (Menander). There, they are outspoken and somehow, romanticized. This paper attempts an overview and analysis of the courtesans’ portrayal from Old Greek comedy (Aristophanes) to comic texts of the early Roman Empire, namely Lucian’s comic mimes (Dialogues of the Courtesans) and Athenaeus’ proverbial quotations from famous comedies, now lost in extant form (Learned Banqueters 13). I will contextualize the evolution of character and linguistic abilities of the courtesan with reference to their agency, emotions and status. I will finally demonstrate how courtesan-related humor informs us, modern readers, about the commercialization of sex, gender and agency in the ancient world.
32.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Mapping Ancient Heritage with Digital Tools 2021 Ingår i: Virtual Heritage. - London : Ubiquity Press. - 9781914481000 - 9781914481024 - 9781914481017 ; , s. 55-66 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract How does ‘digital’ apply to ancient pasts? Digital methods, especially meth- ods relating to identifying, visualizing, and analysing spatial data, have become increasingly important within the fields of classical literature, archaeology, and heritage. On the one hand, literary narratives offer potentially different ways of representing space and place than the usual cartographic maps to which we have become accustomed. On the other hand, by virtue of being able to locate cultural artefacts in space – where they were found, through whose hands they have passed, where they reside now, where they were produced and circulated – it becomes possible to construct biographies or even itineraries of objects that offer richer ways of understanding their use and agency.Unique in all classical literature, Pausanias’s second-century CE Periegesis Hellados presents an example of both types of spatial representation – a nar- rative that describes places of interest in the Greek landscape as well as the notable objects found there. This chapter discusses some of the ways in which Pausanias’s narrative of Greek heritage is good to consider when attempting to use digital methods for analysing the entanglements of place, people, and objects in a textual geography.
33.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Mapping Socio-Ecological Landscapes : Geovisualization as method 2020. - 1 Ingår i: Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781138363021 ; , s. 203-217 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract his chapter provides a transparent assessment of three otherwise unrelated mapping interfaces, conceptually designed for three different projects.The projects are: 1) the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD, www.sead.se), 2) Mapping Linguistic Landscapes and 3) Mekhane (www.mekhane.com). The first project, SEAD (www.sead.se, Buckland 2014a), is a research data infrastructure for storing, managing and analysing multidisciplinary paleo- environmental data.3 The project includes powerful in-house querying and limited visualization tools as well as providing a source of spatiotemporal data for other systems. The second project, Mapping Linguistic Landscapes, aims to create an understanding of the materialization of languages in urban and rural landscape.The project shows where, when and what languages are addressed and represented, and thereby gives an indication of the inclusion and exclusion of various linguistic groups in public spaces. The third project, Mekhane is a repository of information about research-driven 3D renderings of ancient cities. It further provides the user with a visualization of the geographical reach of antiquity. For example, a user can see how many times digital models of Rome were made in other places. Mekhane aims at providing the user with an understanding of ancient place and its contemporary reconstruction in one single interface. In the geovisualization analysis that follows, we suggest that places, structures, and materials with GIS may be used to uproot well-established notions of space and place in relation to landscapes, cultures, media, and societies (White 2010; Frank 2012).We then discuss the limitations of geovisualizations.
34.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Mapping socio-ecological landscapes : geovisualization as method 2021 Ingår i: Routledge international handbook of research methods in digital humanities. - Oxon & New York : Routledge. - 9781138363021 - 9780429777028 ; , s. 203-217 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Geovisualization, here perceived broadly as a representation of data on a digital map, has been used within a number of disciplines for different purposes: from creating new knowledge to sharing existing scholarly ideas. This chapter focuses on how building maps conceptually and with specific research questions in mind often requires a set of fresh methodologies. Methodologies ought to be tailored to conceptual research questions and existing limitations set by data, as well as aggregation, and visualization software. Through an analysis of three case studies spanning the disciplines of archaeology, linguistics and ethnology, classics and media studies, we identify a number of methodological choices and limitations for geovisualization set by available fragmented historical data, digital platforms for data aggregation, and visualization software. We then highlight two issues that are open for further development, more specifically 1) the complexities of representing multiple temporal data in one single mapping interface, as well as 2) the need for common global vocabularies and ontologies that provide us with the possibilities of linking common references.
35.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, Froma I. Zeitlin (ed.), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel : Trends in classics - supplementary volumes, 14. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. Pp. xi, 289. ISBN 9783110281828. $154.00 2014 Ingår i: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. - Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. - 1055-7660 .- 1063-2948. Recension (refereegranskat)
36.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Material Girls : Humor and Female Professional Seduction in Greek Literature and Culture 2014 Ingår i: Eugesta: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity. - Lille, France : Lille Université. - 2156-2253 .- 2265-8777. ; 4 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Current scholarship typically views the ancient Greek prostitute/ courtesan figure as an artificially manipulated, sexualized body motivated by material profit. By examining fragments of Middle Comedy and their echoes in post-classical antiquity, this article proposes an alternative view of courtesans and prostitutes as professionals of emotional labor. Through narrative analysis, I show that the Greek comic portrayal of courtesans is multifaceted and not sufficiently illuminated by discussions of their subjectivity, aesthetic modifications, and greed but also extends to the realm of their emotions. Intersecting gender and humor theories with the concept of Emotional Labor (Hochschild 1983), I then argue that these figures can be seen to comically modify their appearance and behavior in order to reflect contemporary ideological and cultural standards of female sexual conduct. Viewing humor as a communicative tool for social hierarchies consequently facilitates a more complex analysis of attitudes towards the commercialization of bodies and emotions in Greek literature and culture.
37.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Queer heroes and action heroines : gender and sexuality in Spartacus 2015 Ingår i: Spartacus in the television arena. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland. - 9781476620305 - 9780786498017 ; , s. 1-220 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor. The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice.The television series Spartacus takes a different view, with a violent depiction of the man and his times and a focus on the archetype of the gladiator—powerful, courageous and righteous. This collection of new essays studies the series as an exploration of masculinity.In the world of Spartacus, men jockey for social position, question the nature of their lives, examine their relationships with women and with each other, and explore their roles in society and the universe. The series also offers a compelling study of the composite nature of historical narrative in television and film, where key facts from original sources are interwoven with period embellishments, presenting audiences with a history and a fiction whose lines remain blurred by a distant yet all-too-familiar past.
38.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Reading and building the Digital Humanities : From Network to Centre at Uppsala University 2023 Ingår i: Bibliotek, bildning och läsning som arena och praktik. - Uppsala : Uppsala University. - 9789150630107 ; , s. 121-132 Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The chapter deals with the creation of a digital humanities centre at Uppsala university and touches upon public reading practices but also new machine learning technologies such as gpt4.
39.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Remixing Classics for the Screen : Woody Allen and the Classical Tradition 2015 Ingår i: Studia Oliveriana. - Pesaro : Bononia University Press. - 0562-2964. ; 1, s. 55-76 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Several films by Woody Allen (Interiors, Oedipus Wrecks, Match Point and Mighty Aphrodite) contain elements of classical tradition that have been neglected or oversimplified by film scholarship as references to the director’s personal engagement with psychoanalysis. Using Mighty Aphrodite (1995) as illustration, I argue that these films convey the expression of contemporary social issues through a complex and multi-layered reception of classical culture that goes beyond pure psychoanalysis. In Mighty Aphrodite, specifically, Allen deploys the strict formalism of tragedy and the myth of Oedipus as film mechanisms for contemporary societal discourse. Via evaluation of film and narrative, I demonstrate that Allen’s classical reception is self-reflexive as it refers back to the very processes of performative arts. Furthermore, Allen utilizes the classical tradition as a form of expression in contemporary classical Hollywood narratives and creates a rich cultural experience for his audience; a cinematic treatise on cultural remix, dramatic formalism and classical reception per se.
40.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Review of Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber : Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement 2017 Ingår i: Journal of Hellenic Studies. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 0075-4269 .- 2041-4099. ; 137, s. 284-286 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
41.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Semantically geo-annotating an ancient Greek "travel guide" : Itineraries, Chronotopes, Networks, and Linked Data 2020 Ingår i: GeoHumanities'20. - New York, NY, United States : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450381635 ; , s. 1-9 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract Pausanias's second-century CE Periegesis Hellados presents a ten-volume grand tour of the Greek mainland. After the post-enlightenment rediscovery of ancient Greek literature, his Description of Greece proved highly influential as a guidebook to Greece's antiquities, directing travellers and archaeologists alike to uncovering and interpreting major sites, notably at Athens, Corinth and Olympia. Recent studies focusing on his Description as a narrative, however, have drawn attention to the textual construction of space, and the different ways in which space and place are conceptualised and related to each other. This paper outlines the initial work of the Digital Periegesis project, which is using semantic geo-annotation to capture and analyse the forms of space within and the spatial form of this narrative. In particular, it discusses the challenges and affordances of using geo-parsing, spatio-temporal analysis, network analysis, and Linked Open Data (LOD) for rethinking the geographies of a non-modern literary text as based more on topological connections than topographic proximity.
42.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010) 2018 Ingår i: Ancient Greece on British television. - Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press. - 9781474412599 - 9781474412612 - 9781474412605 ; , s. 187-202 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
43.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Visualizing Pausanias’s Description of Greece with contemporary GIS 2022 Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - : Oxford University Press. - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 37:3, s. 716-724 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This progress article focuses on an overview of the potential and challenges of using contemporary Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the visual rendering and analysis of textual spatial data. The case study is an ancient traveling narrative, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados) which was written in the second century CE. First, we describe the process of converting the volumes to spatial data using a customized version of the open-source digital semantic annotation platform Recogito. Then the focus shifts to the implementation of collected and organized spatial data to a number of GIS applications: namely Google Maps, DARIAH Geo-Browser, Gephi, Palladio and ArcGIS. Through empirical experimentation with spatial data and their implementation in different platforms, our paper charts the ways in which contemporary GIS applications may be implemented to cast new light on ancient understandings of identity, space, and place.
44.	Foka, Anna, 1981- (författare) Women's (in)visibility : In the Carl Sahlin Archive 2019. - 41 Ingår i: Digitala Modeller. - Lund : Lund University. - 9789198504538 ; , s. 95-106 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
45.	Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al. (författare) Women’s Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI : Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin’s Industrial History Collection 2022 Ingår i: Emerging Technologies, Museums. - London and New York : Berghahn Books. - 9781800733749 - 9781800733756 ; , s. 65-88 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract This chapter moves beyond claims of digital technology as a means for democratisation of knowledge and focus on archival online repositories of women’s history, concentrating on a Swedish case study: the collection of industry leader Carl Sahlin (1861–1943) at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology. The chapter contributes a detailed methodology for collection enrichment, including the possibilities and pitfalls of using emerging technologies, specifically AI, for classification and enrichment so as to open up new critical questions about historical women.
46.	Gelfgren, Stefan, et al. (författare) Visualisering som verktyg och metod för historieforskning 2017 Ingår i: Digital humaniora. - Göteborg : Daidalos. - 9789171735249 ; , s. 147-164 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
47.	Golub, Koraljka, et al. (författare) Digital humanities in Sweden and its infrastructure : Status quo and the sine qua non 2020 Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - Oxford : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 35:3, s. 547-556 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The article offers a state-of-the-art overview of a number of Digital Humanities (DH) initiatives that have emerged in Sweden over the past decade. We identify two major developments that seem to be taking place within DH, with a specific focus on the infrastructural aspects of the development: (1) a strive to open up and broaden the research output and (2) multi-disciplinary collaboration and its effects. The two major components accentuate the new infrastructural patterns that are developing and the challenges these infer on universities. While current research is at large multi-disciplinary, developing infrastructures also enable the move towards post-disciplinarity, bringing the universities closer to the surrounding society. At five universities in Sweden, individual-sited infrastructures supporting DH research have been built today. They are complemented by national and international infrastructures, thus supporting developments and tackling some of the major challenges. In the article, the relations between individual disciplines, the question of multi- and post-disciplinarity, and the field of Digital Humanities are discussed, while stressing the factors necessary—sine qua non—for a fruitful development of the scholarly infrastructures.
48.	Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-, et al. (författare) AI and Swedish Heritage Organisations : challenges and opportunities 2023 Ingår i: AI & Society. - : Springer Nature. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article examines the challenges and opportunities that arise with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods and tools when implemented within cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), focusing on three selected Swedish case studies. The article centres on the perspectives of the CHI professionals who deliver that implementation. Its purpose is to elucidate how CHI professionals respond to the opportunities and challenges AI/ML provides. The three Swedish CHIs discussed here represent different organizational frameworks and have different types of collections, while sharing, to some extent, a similar position in terms of the use of AI/ML tools and methodologies. The overarching question of this article is what is the state of knowledge about AI/ML among Swedish CHI professionals, and what are the related issues? To answer this question, we draw on (1) semi-structured interviews with CHI professionals, (2) individual CHI website information, and (3) CHI-internal digitization protocols and digitalization strategies, to provide a nuanced analysis of both professional and organisational processes concerning the implementation of AI/ML methods and tools. Our study indicates that AI/ML implementation is in many ways at the very early stages of implementation in Swedish CHIs. The CHI professionals are affected in their AI/ML engagement by four key issues that emerged in the interviews: their institutional and professional knowledge regarding AI/ML; the specificities of their collections and associated digitization and digitalization issues; issues around personnel; and issues around AI/ML resources. The article suggests that a national CHI strategy for AI/ML might be helpful as would be knowledge-, expertise-, and potentially personnel- and resource-sharing to move beyond the constraints that the CHIs face in implementing AI/ML.
49.	Hale, Elizabeth, et al. (författare) Myths of Classical Education in Australia : Fostering Classics trough Fabrication, Visualization and Reception 2021 Ingår i: Our Mythical Education. - Warsaw : European Research Council. - 9788323546320 - 9788323546245 - 9788323546160 ; , s. 295-310 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract While Classics is nominally taught throughout Australia, and the Australian National Curriculum has established a framework to support the teaching of Classics and Classical Languages wherever schools can sustain a programme, the bulk of Classics teaching occurs on the east coast, and mostly in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. This chapter takes New South Wales as its focus and uses examples from Sydney Classics teachers as case studies. We focus on NSW's global antiquity approach as well as the use of visualization, fabrication and classical. reception in the school teaching of classical mytology
50.	Heintz, Fredrik, et al. (författare) Digital spetskompetens 2035 : Framtidsanalys för kompetensförsörjningen av digital spetskompetens 2022 Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Tillväxtverket och Universitetskanslersämbetet har fått i uppdrag från regeringen att tillsammans analysera och föreslå hur kompetensförsörjningen av digital spetskompetens ska kunna utvecklas både kort- och långsiktigt. Baserat på de tidigare rapporter som tagits fram inom uppdraget har vi fått i uppdrag att utveckla framtidsscenarier om hur tillgången till digital spetskompetens skulle kunna se ut samt komma med slutsatser och rekommendationer för framtida utvecklingen.Vårt tillvägagångssätt har varit att genomföra följande olika insatser: en SWOT-analys över nuläget, för att ha en startpunkt samt identifiera flaskhalsar och hinder för att realisera visionerna för digital spetskompetens, en trendanalys, som analyserar vilka stora trender med relevans för digital spetskompetens vi ser nu och inom de närmsta 10–15 åren baserat på vår egen omfattande forskning på området, en analys över viktiga policy-beslut som tagits och som skulle kunna tas, vilket visar på möjliga vägar framåt, inkluderande de tidigare rapporterna som genomförts i projektet och de internationella utblickar som gjorts inom uppdraget kring digital spetskompetens redan och analysera vilka förslag som skulle kunna vara genomförbara i en svensk kontext, samt ta i beaktande den input som vi fått från vår externa expertgrupp.Baserat på detta har vi låtit ta fram åtta framtidsscenarier på hur den framtida tillgången på digital spetskompetens kan se ut beroende på vilka policybeslut som tas samt hur trenderna utvecklar sig.

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