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Editors’ Choice: The System From Nowhere
Editors’ Summary: This post includes a podcast episode and an accompanying essay summarizing the conversation. The conversation is focused on the way the media reports about AI and its own so-called agency. The recent headlines about an OpenAI model “hacking” another AI company, Hugging Face, is an example of the rhetorical strategy. The author notes…
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Storytelling and Digital Media Job Details at Maastricht University
We are opening an Assistant Professor position in Storytelling and Digital Media. We are looking for a colleague with a background in literary or media studies whose research explores how storytelling is shaped by digital media and technologies, examining emerging narrative forms such as immersive media, data visualization, games, social media, and other digital platforms.…
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Tool: WACZ to PDF
A WACZ is a good container for a web crawl. It plays back easily in open-source replay software like Browsertrix and ReplayWebPage. But it’s not always the most convenient format for a non-archivist who wants to read, annotate, print or file away a set of their articles. I worked with Claude to write a small…
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Job Announcement: Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Scholar, The University of Southern Mississippi
The Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to support its mission to serve as a digital humanities resource for the state of Mississippi. This grant-funded position, potentially renewable for up to one year, will focus on planning a conference and summer workshop, preparing materials for secondary school instructors, and managing relationships with…
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Editors’ Choice: AI coding without the vibes
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author discusses the known issues with vibe coding from a pedagogical perspective, namely the lack of understanding of the code. He proposes to switch the roles when vibe coding and have the AI review code that is human written. The essay considers the potential benefits and challenges of this…
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Resource: Copyright Law in the Age of AI
Copyright Law in the Age of AI is a complete casebook on United States copyright law, free to download from this website and current to August 2026. Across 28 chapters and 177 extracted decisions, it covers the field from subject matter and originality, the reproduction and derivative work rights, fair use, ownership, the distribution and…
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DHNow Newsletter, August 19, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay proposing a different technique for vibe coding and a podcast with accompanying essay that attempts to critically discuss what it means when AI models “go rogue.” We have also included CFPs,…
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Job Announcement: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation at University of Bergen
The University of Bergen are seeking a motivated and academically strong candidate for a PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation at the Center for Digital Narrative, which is part of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, commencing January 1st, 2027, or as agreed upon. The position is for a fixed-term period of…
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Weekly Highlight: TTHub or Hub of Text Technologies
TTHub or Hub of Text Technologies is a collaborative space for educational materials and research resources on text technologies and digital editing in Spanish, with special attention to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). They provide different tutorials on coding, editing and publishing texts with XML-TEI. The Resources section includes project repositories that use XML-TEI, repositories…
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Report: DH2026 Video Archive
A record of DH2026: Engagement, the 36th annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held 27–31 July 2026 at the Daejeon Convention Center. All videos are hosted on YouTube and open in a new tab. See full post.
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Report: Conference Musings on ACH and DH 2026
The summer conference season is over, and this year marked a return for me to both the international DH conference (held in Daejeon, South Korea for 2026) and the ACH conference (held, as usual, anywhere you are / virtually). They’re always different experiences, but the distinction felt particularly acute this year. See full post.
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Project: Babel Nexus
The Babel Nexus Index is a free, visual way to explore the great public-domain books — the classics whose copyright has expired, so anyone can read them. Instead of a search box and a flat list, it lays knowledge out as a map of connected rooms: each room is a subject, each book sits on…
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Editors’ Choice: Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives
Editors’ Summary: This article argues that human-in-the-loop AI can be beneficial to GLAM institutions. Based on fifteen semi-structured interviews with professionals across GLAM institutions in the UK and continental Europe, the article considers current practice around sensitivity review, metadata enrichment, and collaboration with source communities. The authors outline a framework for AI adoption combining SafeSearch-style…
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Editors’ Choice: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Infrastructures, Analytics, and Epistemic Justice
Editors’ Summary: This introduction to the Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue redefines what cultural analytics means from the perspective of the Global South. Rather than viewing digital humanities as the application of computational tools to ready-made datasets, the authors argue that building archives, designing metadata, negotiating community governance, and preserving Indigenous knowledge are themselves…
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DHNow Newsletter, August 12, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an article about digital humanities in the Global South that proposes a more inclusive framework for computational humanities and an article that considers ethical AI use in GLAM institutions. We have also included…