Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 181.
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[1] From: Gerben ZAAGSMA <gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu>
Subject: New book: Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (66)
[2] From: Susan Schreibman <susan.schreibman@gmail.com>
Subject: Companion to DH and Companion to Digital Literary Studies online (25)
[3] From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@uti.at>
Subject: New book: Digital Humanism: A Philosophy for 21st Century Digital Society (Christian Fuchs) (50)
[4] From: Frédéric CLAVERT <frederic.clavert@uni.lu>
Subject: CfP (reminder): Digital Tools (Journal of Digital History) (26)
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Date: 2022-09-22 08:33:44+00:00
From: Gerben ZAAGSMA <gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu>
Subject: New book: Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to announce the publication of our new book Jewish Studies in the
Digital Age<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110744828/html>,
in open access.
The book was edited by Michelle Margolis, Amalia S. Levi, Daniel Stoekl Ben
Ezra, Miriam Rürup and Gerben Zaagsma. It is the fifth volume to appear in the
book series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics<https://www-degruyter-
com.proxy.bnl.lu/serial/sdhh-b/html>, published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg and
edited by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
(C²DH)<https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/>.
The book contains an elaborate introduction that discusses the intersection of
Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities within its broader historical context. In
four different sections (Collections, Spatiality, Text and Computational)
sixteen chapters subsequently analyse a broad range of topical, methological and
epistemological issues.
Here is the book's abstract:
As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find
themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital
resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and
the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume
discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It
explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be
harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish
Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and
heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and
histories, of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital
Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls?
The articles in this volume were originally presented at the international
conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, which was organised at
the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at University of
Luxembourg in January 2021. The first big international conference of its kind,
it brought together more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to
discuss how the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies.
The book is the third major output of a larger DHJewish project that included
the international conference<https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/events/dhjewish-jewish-
studies-digital-age> mentioned above as well as the recently launched #DHJewish
website<https://dhjewish.org/>. You can also follow DHJewish news and updates
through our dedicated Twitter account<https://twitter.com/dhjewish>.
With kind regards,
Gerben Zaagsma
Dr. Gerben Zaagsma
Assistant Professor
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Université du Luxembourg
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L - 4366 Esch-Belval
M: gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu<mailto:gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu>
T: +352 466644 6208
W: www.c2dh.uni.lu<http://www.c2dh.uni.lu>
W: http://gerbenzaagsma.org
[...]
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Date: 2022-09-22 08:14:51+00:00
From: Susan Schreibman <susan.schreibman@gmail.com>
Subject: Companion to DH and Companion to Digital Literary Studies online
Colleagues -- many of you may remember that the editors of the
Companions received permission from the publisher, Blackwell, to make
the (first) Companion to DH and the Companion to Digital Literary
Studies available online.
ADHO recently redeveloped the underlying architecture and we thought
this was a good opportunity to remind the community that these
collections are freely available. And we thank Simon Wiles for his
redevelopment of the texts. The URL is here
https://companions.digitalhumanities.org/
with best wishes
Susan Schreibman, John Unsworth and Ray Siemens
--
Prof. dr. Susan Schreibman
Professor of Digital Art and Culture
Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Email: s.schreibman@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Phone: +31 (0)43 388 32 82
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Date: 2022-09-21 09:44:27+00:00
From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@uti.at>
Subject: New book: Digital Humanism: A Philosophy for 21st Century Digital Society (Christian Fuchs)
Fuchs, Christian. 2022. Digital Humanism. A Philosophy for 21st Century
Digital Society. SocietyNow Series. Bingley: Emerald.
More information and sample reading:
https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/digital-humanism/
Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to
live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the
COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and
political polarisation are organised via the Internet. The public sphere
is highly polarised. Today, many humans tend to think of other humans
mainly in terms of friends and enemies. Robots and Artificial
Intelligence-based automation have created new challenges for the world
of work. Decades of neoliberalism have increased inequalities. The
COVID-19 pandemic has shown the vulnerability of humanity to viruses and
health crises.
Humanity and society are in a major crisis and digitalisation mediates
this crisis. /Digital Humanism/ explores how Humanism can help us to
critically understand how digital technologies shape society and
humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age.
Fuchs introduces the approach of Digital Humanism and outlines
foundations of a Radical Digital Humanism, analysing what decolonisation
of academia and the study of the digital, media and communication means;
what the roles are of robots, automation, and Artificial Intelligence in
digital capitalism, and how the communication of death and dying has
been mediated by digital technologies, capitalist necropower, and
digital capitalism. In order to save humanity and society, we need
Radical Digital Humanism now.
“Digital Humanism is the book we have been waiting for. … Digital
Humanism refuses to transform humans into machines and to think of
machines as humans. This is why this book is such an important and
timely intervention"
Eva Illouz, Director of Studies at EHESS, Paris/
//Table of Contents
/Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What is Humanism?
Chapter 3. What is Digital Humanism?
Chapter 4. Decolonising Academia: A Radical Humanist Perspective
Chapter 5. Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Capitalism
Chapter 6. Policy Discourses on Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
in the EU, the USA, and China
Chapter 7. Necropower, Death, and Digital Communication in Covid-19
Capitalism
Chapter 8. Conclusion
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Date: 2022-09-21 07:16:06+00:00
From: Frédéric CLAVERT <frederic.clavert@uni.lu>
Subject: CfP (reminder): Digital Tools (Journal of Digital History)
Dear colleagues,
The Journal of Digital History has published a call for articles entitled
digital tools that is still open (deadline: 31st of October). This special issue
will be coordinated by Pelle Snickars (Lund) and Maria Eriksson (Humlab).
"This special issue of the Journal of Digital History welcomes contributions
that introduce and discuss digital toolkits for exploring historic source
materials, be they sonic, textual, visual, or audiovisual. We seek to collect a
broad range of publications that demonstrate and critically analyse new ways of
exploring the past through computational means and strive to open up and
problematize the use of digital methods in historic research."
Best regards,
Frédéric Clavert
Frédéric CLAVERT
Center for Contemporary and Digital History
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
CAMPUS BELVAL
2 avenue de l'Université
L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette
T +352 46 66 44 6192
frederic.clavert@uni.lu<mailto:frederic.clavert@uni.lu> / www.uni.lu
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