I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources. The course provides both home and exchange students with a cursory overview of religions in Japan, their history, and their present status, and presents some wider issues related to the study of religions in Japan. […]
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has fundamentally disrupted one of higher education’s most enduring pedagogical tools: the essay. For centuries, the essay has served as both a means of learning and a method of assessment, asking students to demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, argument construction, and disciplinary knowledge through extended written work. The arrival of tools […]
When we launched the third cohort for the Integrating AI Literacy into the Curricula project in September, we wanted to learn about the fast evolving AI literacy landscape in higher education. In our first workshop in October, we began to see a clear pattern: across institutions types and sizes, AI literacy development in higher education […]
The Digital Humanities (DH) Archivist provides strategic leadership for the Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub, the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL), and University Libraries’ digital initiatives. This position directs large-scale digitization and digital preservation projects, develops statewide metadata and preservation policies, and advances external funding opportunities through grant leadership. The DH Archivist supervises staff and student workers, […]
The Project Archivist is a grant-funded, term-limited position responsible for the comprehensive digitization and accessibility of the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection (approximately 4,791 photographic materials) housed in the Cal State LA Special Collections and Archives. The archivist will ensure the long-term preservation of both the physical and digital collection, create high-quality metadata for discovery, […]
The project is Safeguarding Research & Culture…The concept is simple: download public datasets that are at risk of being lost, and replicate them as widely as possible to make them hard to destroy, though obviously there’s a lot of complexity buried in that statement. When the Trump administration first took power, there were a lot […]
It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains Olivia Guest, computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University and lead author of the paper. ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time, […]
This week’s issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Rachel Hogan, DHNow Guest Editor. In our first Editors’ Choice, the authors argue against the “inevitability” of AI adoption, especially in university contexts. They highlight the potential conflicts of interest that exist when the AI industry is responsible for funding a lot […]
The phenomenological mediation of the screen can make it very hard to tell these different kinds of connector apart. In a recent post, the historian of belief Francis Young makes an intriguing argument which expands on this. Young argues that the reception of AI, across the public and the scholarly spheres, has shifted society towards […]
The editorial collective for Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 (ELC5) is excited to announce that our Call for Submissions is now open! As in previous volumes of the collection, we are interested in capturing a broad view of works to represent electronic literature and all that it means in the present technocultural landscape. This could […]
