[Guest post by Mary E. Fissell, Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University]| The Innovative Instructor
Historical research may seem to be a field in which AI tools will be especially useful. Historians are often confronted with very large unstructured digital collections of documents, letters, image…| Understanding Society
Historical research may seem to be a field in which AI tools will be especially useful. Historians are often confronted with very large unstructured digital collections of documents, letters, images, treaties, legal settlements, contracts, and diplomatic exchanges that far exceed the ability of a single human researcher to sift and analyze for valuable historical insights. Can emerging tools in the AI revolution help to make systematic use of such historical collections?Earlier applications o...| Understanding Society
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…| Sounding Out!
This post is a follow-up to our January 2024 post, “Zooniverse Receives NEH Grant to Evaluate Transcription Tools,” which you can read here. In January 2024, we received a Level I Digit…| Daily Zooniverse
Ein Werkstattbericht Zusammenfassung: Seit Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts wurden in Wien Grundbücher geführt. Der tausende Seiten umfassende Bestand erlaubt einen tiefen Einblick in die spätmittelalterliche Sozialtopographie der Stadt. Allerdings stand eben diese Masse an Handschriften einer inhaltlichen Erschließung bisher im...| Mittelalter
In this final essay on Steve Meretzky's Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Drew Cook considers the difference between titillation and comic joy.| Gold Machine
In part 2 of Gold Machine's 3-part series about Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos, we examine its worldbuiding and play.| Gold Machine
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. SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome! When the pandemic hit the world in late 2019, the concept of lockdown ceased the social life of the people and their communities. In these unprecedented circumstances, a video […]| Sounding Out!
When the COVID-19 global pandemic began, news reports and studies throughout the world began citing a lot of sound-based statistics: drastic reductions in noise pollution in urban centres, AI recordings of cellphone coughs, shifting soundscapes at home with new routines and work settings, and sonic sensitivities cultivated in quarantine and isolation. At the same time, […]| Sounding Out!
In summer 2021, sound artist, engineer, musician, and educator Johann Diedrick convened a panel at the intersection of racial bias, listening, and AI technology at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY. Diedrick, 2021 Mozilla Creative Media award recipient and creator of such works as Dark Matters, is currently working on identifying the origins of racial bias in voice interface systems. Dark Matters, according to Squeaky […]| Sounding Out!
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome! — BONUS POST: Directly following Merje’s introduction to her music mapping project, SO! has also published is her analysis of the observational research she conducted during the first 55 days […]| Sounding Out!
The Gold Machine interprets and critiques interactive texts via literary and cultural analysis, beginning with Infocom’s games from the 1980’s.| Gold Machine
Since 2018, the University of Cologne has been hosting a regular summer school dedicated to machine learning – which means I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the organizing team and its academic coordination for eight years now! This year’s edition will once again take place in the second week of September. After several […]| TEXperimenTales
The NHC supports the development of programming for diverse, non-academic audiences through 12 to 15 public humanities events staged across geographic regions.| nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Du hast den Tag mit einer Zugfahrt ab 6:30 nach Bielefeld begonnen, dort dem ÖPNV-Streik mit einem Leihrad getrotzt, hast in mehr als sechs Stunden in einem Workshop zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben mit LLMs viel (mitunter auch Dir bisher unbekanntes) über Frontier-Modelle, Prompting-Strategien, Multi-Agent-Systeme und Reasoning-Modellierung erfahren, abends dann nach der Keynote den Sinn all dieses […]| TEXperimenTales
Projekttagung über den Einsatz digitaler Methoden zur Erschließung von Kulturerbe, 19.–20. September 2024 in Innsbruck Der Forschungskontext: Inventare als Forschungsgegenstände Zwei große Projekte zur Praxis des Inventarisierens Die beiden interdisziplinären Kooperationsprojekte Hohensalzburg Digital (2022–2025) und INVENTARIA. The Making of Inventories...| Mittelalter
“A focus on listening [with technology] shifts the idea of freedom of speech from having a platform of expression to having the possibility of communication” (K. Lacey) One of the biggest social me…| Sounding Out!
In de week van 18-22 augustus 2025 organiseren de Taalunie, de Universiteit Utrecht en de Universiteit Leiden gezamenlijk weer een nascholingscursus voor onderzoekers in de (internationale) neerlan…| Neerlandistiek
Wie schon seit mehreren Jahren durfte ich auch in diesem Semester eine Übung für Master-Studierende verschiedener Studiengänge (s.u.) anbieten, deren Thema ich relativ frei wählen konnte. Nach gleich drei Semestern in denen ich – mit unterschiedlicher Schwerpunktsetzung – große Sprachmodelle und deren Einsatz in den Digital Humanities thematisierte, hatte ich mir für dieses Semester nach […]| TEXperimenTales
Mit diesem provokanten Titel forderte die Vortragende Zoe Schubert das Publikum gezielt heraus, sich mit der technologischen Darstellung und Referenzierbarkeit von Digitalisaten auseinanderzusetzen. Anhand ihres “Pop-Up 3D”-Projektes zeigte sie beispielhaft, wie eine moderne und gezielte Umsetzung eines Digitalisierungsprojektes aussieht, und wie man die Zugänglichkeit der Digitalisate sicherstellt. ME – Wer oder was? Die Staatsbibliothek in … CITE ME IF YOU CAN weiterlesen →| Digital Humanities Cologne
Did you know that many Zooniverse projects are available in languages other than English? It is true that all Zooniverse projects are first created in English. But because our community is so multilingual, many teams translate their projects into other languages – usually with the help of our amazing volunteers! Here is the list of […]| Daily Zooniverse
In this final post about Infocom's Trinity, Drew considers philosophical responses to its rather bleak conclusion.| Gold Machine
When bad things happen to all sorts of people. The Tragic Plane Crash and Other Myths “Tragedy” is a word that gets repeated often in our media. When something horrific happens, it is called a tragedy. Plane crashes, we are told, are tragedies, and so are collapsing buildings. You might think I’m going somewhere pedantic […] The post The Dearth of Tragedy appeared first on Gold Machine.| Gold Machine
The best ending is not the ending. Depraved Indifference as a Cosmic Horror For the past handful of posts, I’ve maintained the position that humanity is, separate from humans as individuals, a kind of inexorable force, a destructive tendency or eventuality visited upon the earth. In fact, I’ve consistently preferred the term “creation” over “earth” […] The post Suffer the Children appeared first on Gold Machine.| Gold Machine
Another Pull at an Old Thread Recent discussions have attempted to bolster a few, key ideas. The first and most controversial, given the present critical landscape, is that while historical detail informs our understanding of humanity, it isn’t, in and of itself, a theme or interpretive “code wheel” that can unlock the meaning of Trinity. […] The post Now I Am Become Death appeared first on Gold Machine.| Gold Machine
Examining the Libra episode of Infocom's Trinity, which features a swarm of lemmings at a Soviet atomic test site.| Gold Machine
Reframing my current assessment of Infocom's Trinity. A controversial opinion regarding the construction and meaning of a beloved game.| Gold Machine
I continue to find it mind-boggling that people seem to think that a good use of AI tools like ChatGPT is to gather accurate information. Any cursory reading on the topic should explain that ChatGPT is designed to predict language in response to a prompt, not actually present information based on “knowledge” or “intelligence.” I […]| Just TV
Like many academics, I’ve been seeing a lot of concerns around how AI tools like ChatGPT might impact the work academics do as teachers and scholars. I don’t want to dive too much into those muddy waters, but I saw one post on Mastodon that piqued my interest and led me to do some experimenting. […]| Just TV
It’s been more than two years since I posted to this blog, but I’m back with some good news. Obviously, it’s been a not-great couple of years of silence, although comparatively I have little to complain about personally or professionally. Things have sucked, but far less for me than for many people. But for 2022, […]| Just TV
In the spirit of the season, I am pleased to announce a gift to anyone who wants it: a new open access, multimedia site, The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy, available at videographicessay.org. This site collects both previously-published and new versions of writings by Christian Keathley, Catherine Grant, and me, as well as numerous examples […]| Just TV
‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →| Blue Labyrinths
Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus introduced the concept of “surface reading,” a reading practice focused on what a text plainly presents, aiming to understand the text “at face valu…| Literary Theory and Criticism
From nowhen to somewhen: narrative vignettes, cumulative storytelling, and a bad day at the beach. Further discussion of Narrative and Geographical Modularity In Trinity In a previous post, I discussed the wide, middle part of Trinity‘s structure. This so-called “Wabe” is a highly effective design, unifying both storytelling and mechanics. Narratively, it establishes Trinity as […] The post “Tell the Truth, but Tell It Slant:” Modularity and Sacrifice appeared first on Gold Machine.| Gold Machine
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. […]| National Council on Public History
My goal is to show off the difference a little contrast and color-adjusting can do when trying to read certain, less-than-clear portions of a manuscript. And one or two unexpected surprises that can pop up in editing...Blake holds many mysteries.| Hell’s Printing Press
While pondering the future of digital history, historian Edward L. Ayers argues the field should not only replicate archives and build new tools. It must also feature interpretation, explanation, and explication, and when it accomplishes these things, it can contribute original knowledge and perform a democratic service in meaningful and enduring ways.[1]Digital history, therefore, presents … Read More Read More| The Journal of the Civil War Era
Experimente in den (digitalen) Geisteswissenschaften Vortragende: Mareike Schumacher, Technische Universität Darmstadt (@M_K_Schumacher) Einführung & Moderation: Simon Meier-Vieracker, Technische Universität Dresden (@fussballinguist) Die Digital Humanities geben der ursprünglich eher mit den Naturwissenschaften in Verbindung gebrachten Forschungspraxis des Experiments eine neue Bedeutung. Nicht nur zeigt sich die Forschungscommunity offen gegenüber ungewöhnlichen Veranstaltungsformate...| vDHd2021 – Experimente
Wie eigentlich immer in den letzten 14 Jahren, in denen ich zwei Kinder durch ihre Schullaufbahn begleiten durfte, versuchte ich nach Semesterende möglichst zügig die noch zu erledigenden Dinge abzuhaken, um den Familienurlaub zu starten. Das Problem wird jedem, der an einer deutschen Hochschule lehrt, bekannt sein: Die Schulferien sind nicht besonders gut auf die […]| TEXperimenTales
In the Library Research Support team we have quite a bit of experience of 3D scanning and of photogrammetry, but have never tried combining digital photographs with scan data to make a ‘photorealistic’ 3D model.| Open Research at Bristol
Written by You-Hao Lai. Taiwan’s civil society played a critical role in countering disinformation during the 2024 election. This article details civil groups’ ongoing efforts in protec…| Taiwan Insight
Some home fronts were as divided as the nation during the Civil War, and in states like Mississippi, over 17,000 men fought for the Union. To be clear, the vast majority of Mississippi men served t…| Reflections on War & Society
As country after country has gone into COVID-19 lockdown, we have all had to learn to communicate, network, teach, study and relate online in ways unimaginable a few short years – or even months – ago. This phenomenon is just the latest stage in the information-technology revolution and part and parcel of the ongoing development of an increasingly digital society. This revolution has touched almost every aspect of our lives, from how we work, study, shop, relax and even make and maintain ...| Glenn Roe
Gold Machine takes a look at reviews of Trinity from years ranging from 1994 to 2010 before drawing some tentative conclusions.| Gold Machine
