Jeneen Naji

Dr Jeneen Naji

Media Studies, Arts and Humanities Institute

Associate Professor

Room 0.26 Iontas Building

Phone (01) 708 3521

Email jeneen.naji@mu.ie

Biography

My main research area digital is in the area of unique digital cultural artefacts and intersectional digital humanities. I am a Fulbright TechImpact Scholar and I teach on the B.A. Media Studies, the BSc in Multimedia and the M.A. in Critical and Creative Media and the Higher Diploma in Games Design run with the Department of Computer Science. I published a book called Digital Poetry in 2021 and am the Irish PI on a collaborative intersectional digital humanities IRC and AHRC funded project.

Research

Research Interests

My research areas areas:

- intersectional feminist frameworks in digital humanities development. - the critical analysis of existing and emerging digital culture artefacts. -the impact of digital technologies on human creative expression. -the affordances and constraints of the digital medium as they relate to the changing form of poetic expression from analogue to digital.
- electronic literature and digital literacy.

Research Projects

Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date	Amount
Building City Dashboards	Co Principal Investigator	This project will address how to build more extensive and effective city dashboards. It will tackle three sets of fundamental problems: data issues; visualisation/interaction issues; and analytics/modelling issues. It will use the solutions to undertake applied research that significantly extends the Dublin Dashboard through the development and testing of a new suite of querying, modelling and prediction/simulation modules and novel forms of multimedia interaction, including virtual reality, the projection of data onto architectural models, and converting data into audio-textual forms. This testbed will provide a template to develop, implement and test a Cork Dashboard and influence dashboard development globally.	05/09/2016	29/08/2021
H2020 ERC Proposal Support: Starter Grant	PI		15/05/2015	14/02/2016	5716
Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities	PI		01/10/2021	30/09/2024	264469.97
YEWHA: Class, Gender, Race and Age: Fixing Diversity in Text-to-Speech Accessibility Readers	PI	A creative-critical multidisciplinary project researching normative digital voice and developing alternatives, prompted by research into the negative impacts of underrepresentation. Research into voices used by chatbots, accessibility programs and text-to-speech readers in English-speaking digital technology shows narrow representation in terms of gender, race, age, class, and regional accent, with most voices presenting as young, white, RP (received pronunciation), and middle/upper class.	01/09/2023	31/08/2025	184334.4
tbc	PI		01/09/2014	30/11/2014

Post Doctoral Fellows / Research Team

	Researcher Name	Project	Funding Body
	Oliver Dawkins	Building City Dashboards
	Liam O Sullivan	Building City Dashboards
	Tomasz Zawadzki	Building City Dashboards
	Gareth Young	Building City Dashboards
	Iseult Fox	Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities
	Ranju Upadhyay	Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities

Publications

Book

	Year	Publication
	2021	Naji, J. (2021) Digital Poetry. London: Palgrave Pivot.
	2019	Naji J., Subramaniam G., & White G. (2019) New Approaches to Literature for Language Learning. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2021	Naji, Jeneen (2021) 'Mobile Electronic Literature' In: Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices. London : Bloomsbury.
	2017	Naji J. (2017) 'Digital poetry evolution and the art of machines' In: #WomenTechLit.
	2015	Naji, J. (2015) 'Repurposing in Electronic Literature: technology and the expressive continuum' In: Repurposing in Electronic Literature. Košice : Dive Buki.
	2013	Naji, J. (2013) 'Poetic Machines' In: Fowley, C., English, C. & Thouësny S(Eds.). Internet Research,Theory, and Practice: Perspectives from Ireland. : research-publishing.net.
	2013	Naji, J. (2013) 'Poetic Machines - the essentiality of the human and the machine to digital creative expression' In: Felicia, P(Eds.). Game-Based Learning: Opportunities and Challenges:. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
	2011	Naji, J. (2011) 'Interactive Poetry - New Content for new Technologies' In: Vukanovic, Z. & Faustino, P(Eds.). Managing Media Economy, Media Content and Technology in the Age of Digital Convergence. Lisbon : Media XXI.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2020	Naji, J. (2020) 'The Rubayaat'. technoculture: an online journal of technology in, 10 (2020).
	2019	Naji, J. (2019) 'The Art of Machine Use Subversion in Digital Poetry'. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, 20 (2019). [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2017	Naji, Jeneen (2017) 'Back to the Book: Tempest and Funkhouser’s Retro Translations'. Electronic Book Review, . [Link] [Full-Text]
	2016	Jarrett, Kylie and Jeneen Naji (2016) 'What Would Media Studies Do? Social media Shakespeare as a technosocial process'. BORROWERS AND LENDERS: THE JOURNAL OF SHAKESPEARE AND APPROPRIATION, . [Link] [Full-Text]
	2013	Dr Jeneen Naji (2013) 'Simulated stereotypes turning the unreal real: An analysis ofrepresentations of the ‘Other’ in traditional media forms and digital games'. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 6 (2 + 3):115-131. [DOI] [Full-Text]
	2022	Rzeszewski, M.; Naji, J. (2022) 'Literary placemaking and narrative immersion in extended reality virtual geographic environments'. International Journal of Digital Earth, 15 . [Link] [DOI]
	2021	Young G.W.; Kitchin R.; Naji J. (2021) 'Building City Dashboards for Different Types of Users'. Journal of Urban Technology, 28 (1-2):289-309. [DOI] [Full-Text]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2012	Timoney, Joseph and Lazzarini, Victor and Naji, Jeneen (2012) 'INTERCEPT – Interdisciplinary New Technologies for Entrants to Reinforce Creativity, Enthusiasm, and Practical Thinking' Teaching Fellowships 2012 – 2013, :18-19. [Link]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2018	Naji, J. (2018) EVA Copenhagen 2018 - Politics of the Machines - Art and After *The Posthuman Poetics of Instagram Poetry* [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.1 [Full-Text]
	2010	Naji, J. (2010) EuroITV’10 Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video *Interactive Poetry: poets and programmers* [Link]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2020	Naji, J.; Dawkins, O.; Young, G.; Stehle, S. (2020) Mirrorworlds: Mixed Reality Urban Spaces & Human Truth Media City Panel, MeCCSA 2020 University of Brighton, 08/01/2020-10/01/2020.
	2019	Naji, J. Young, G., Stehle, S. (2019) 58th ERSA Congress “Places for People: Innovative, Inclusive and liveable Regions Place in Virtual Space: an analysis of geospatial data narratives presented in cross-reality visualisations University College Cork, 28/10/2019-31/10/2019.
	2019	Naji, J. Goodith, W. (2019) LiLLT Conference 2019 Research in Literature in Language Learning Environments: Patterns and Possibilities The AILA Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Research Network University of Erfurt, 29/08/2019-31/10/2019.

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2020	O’ Brien, A., Arnold, S. Culloty, E. Naji, J. (2020) Global Alliance on Media and Gender Country Report on Ireland. GAMAG, .
	2013	Timoney, J.; Lazzarini, V.; and Naji, J. (2013) INTERCEPT – Interdisciplinary New Technologies for Entrants to Reinforce Creativity, Enthusiasm, and Practical Thinking. Maynooth University, . [Full-Text]

Blog

	Year	Publication
	2014	Naji, J. (2014) Rolling Stone Magazine and the Curious Case of the Muslim in the Neighbourhood. [Blog] [Link]
	2013	Naji, J. (2013) Where are the women?. [Blog] [Link]
	2012	Naji, J. (2012) Who Represents the Users?”. [Blog] [Link]

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	2012	Naji, J. (2012) Poetic Machines: an investigation into the impact of the characteristics of the digital apparatus on poetic expression. Dublin City University: [Thesis] http://doras.dcu.ie/17481/

Exhibition

	Year	Publication
	2019	Naji, Jeneen (2019) Ice cream Thoughts. Norway: [Exhibition] [Link]
	2017	Naji, J. (2017) The Rubayaat. The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale: [Exhibition] [Link]
	2017	Wilks, Naji, Husárová, Mencía (2017) UpsideDown Chandeli. University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal: [Exhibition] [Link]
	2014	Wilks, C., Naji, J., Husárová, Z., Mencia, M. (2014) UpsideDown Chandelier. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U.S.A: [Exhibition]
	2013	Wilks, C., Naji, J., Husárová, Z., Mencia, M. (2013) Upside Down Chandelier. DIG Gallery, Košice, Slovakia: [Exhibition]

Professional

Professional Associations

	Description	Function	From / To
	Electronic Literature Organisation	Member	-
	ADHO	Member	-

Honors and Awards

	Date	Title	Awarding Body
	01/01/2012	Teaching & Learning Fellowship	Maynooth University
	01/01/2014	Fulbright TechImpact	Fulbright Commission

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Campus Life	Member	-
	Governing Authority	Staff Representative	-

Teaching

Current Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	JOHN PHILIP KIRWAN	RESEARCH PH.D. (10)

Recent Students

	Graduation date	Name	Degree
	2022	Monireh Astani	PhD
	2023	Meredith Dabek	PhD

Collaborators

External Collaborators

Name	Role	Country
Digital Repository of Ireland		Ireland
IMMA		Ireland
Sussex University	Co PI	United Kingdom