Our take: Scott Cunningham announces CodeChella Mexico City, a four-day workshop on modern panel methods for causal inference to be held at ITAM’s Santa Teresa campus from January 11 to 14, 2027. Cunningham and Kyle Butts will teach difference-in-differences, synthetic control and newer imputation estimators, with a strong focus on coding and application and no […]
Our take: In “‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI,” Jason Koebler of 404 Media describes a sudden wave of people using AI agents to clone, decompile and modify existing software. Users are replacing the operating systems on smart TVs to strip out ads, reviving abandoned devices and copying features from commercial apps, […]
Our take: In “Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots,” Jill Walker Rettberg responds to an AI agent called Velvet Vale that introduced itself on Air-L, the mailing list of the Association of Internet Researchers, and sparked a lively debate about consent and research ethics. She connects the episode to a recent offer of […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an interview about the state of digital and public humanities in Japan and a post that uses computational text analysis to explore the essential vocabulary lists (General Service List). We have also included […]
Our take: The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) aims to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. It hosts annual conferences, awards annual prizes for works of and criticism of electronic literature, hosts online events and has published a series of collections of electronic literature. See source.
The DHLabs (Digital Humanities Laboratories) at the University of Basel is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (80%) for a four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The position starts on 1st January 2027. For the right candidate, an earlier or a later start can be arranged, at the latest 1st September 2027. […]
During World War II, the US Army administered more than 200 surveys to over half a million American troops to discover what they thought and how they felt about the conflict and their military service. The surviving collection of studies is now accessible to the public for the first time at The American Soldier in […]
This digital anthology is an open-access resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in African American poetry, published roughly between 1870 and 1928. As of January 2025, we believe there are more than 4000 poems collected in digital form on this site. The full-text materials on this site can be accessed in several different ways […]
StarTarot English RWS Historical Meanings and Golden Dawn Correspondences gives one structured record for each of the 78 cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck. Each record combines A. E. Waite’s upright and reversed divinatory meanings from Part III of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911; text of the 1922 reprint), with his “additional meanings” […]
This symposium begins from the premise that AI’s global significance is neither self-evident nor uniform. We approach AI as a global digital communication project that interrogates how technologies circulate and how their meanings are (re)assembled and contested as they move across different cultural and global contexts. We aim to address the slipperiness of AI: How […]
