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Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and […]
The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. We seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Our current coverage includes the following areas – with links to recent contributions within each of these teams – though […]
In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means time, as in […]
Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to conduct research focused on societal AI. See full post.
Annual meeting of the Association of Digital Humanities in the German-speaking world, organized by the University of Marburg. 1. to 5. March 2027 in Marburg. Submission deadline: 1. August 2026. Gaps are constitutive of knowledge. They mark blank spaces, raise new questions and drive processes of knowledge. The DHd 2027 focuses on these productive, problematic […]
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, so JSTOR Daily gathered some of our favorite stories to celebrate. All with free and accessible scholarly research. See full post.
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, Mehul Desai, and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choices this week includes a discussion of the role of Data Feminism in digital humanities and a call for more digital single-use tools and proposes a conceptual framework for open and community-curated tool registries. We […]
As the United States approaches July 4th and the nation’s 250th anniversary, a fundamental democratic question is becoming harder to ignore: who is responsible for preserving the public record, and what happens when it disappears? On June 23 at 10am PT, a conversation featuring Merrilee Proffitt (Democracy’s Library at the Internet Archive), James Jacobs (Stanford […]
Editors’ Summary: This post considers the extent to which the field of DH has embraced the principles of Data Feminism once the initial buzz died down. The author notes how DH is increasingly being shaped by machine learning tools and data-driven methods, making the need for a robust ethical framework for the field more urgent […]
