Digital Humanities

A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn

The weeklong DReAM Lab, put on by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries, offered participants the chance to study a range of subjects, from text analysis to augmented reality and Afrofuturism.

Michele W. Berger

Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill

The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the new website, “Preserving Society Hill.” Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Price Lab and the Libraries, PennDesign’s Francesca Ammon created an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.

Louisa Shepard , Louisa Shepard

Reclaiming a fragmented history

Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.

Louisa Shepard



In the News


The Conversation

Tucker Carlson departure and Fox News’ pricey legal woes show the problem with faking ‘authenticity’

Emily Hund of the Annenberg School for Communication says that society loves the idea of people being themselves.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

The U.S. is considering a TikTok ban. Philadelphia content creators don’t care

Postdoctoral fellow Frances Corry of the Annenberg School for Communication says that TikTok isn’t going anywhere and that the U.S. needs to include Silicon Valley’s major social media platforms in a conversation about data collection and consumer protection.

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Inside Higher Ed

Digital Humanities for Social Good

Penn’s Data Refuge project, which archives public climate-change data, was highlighted as an example of digital humanities work “responding to our contemporary moment.”

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Chronicle of Higher Education

From Doctoral Study to … Digital Humanities

The School of Arts and Sciences’ Stewart Varner explained that “digital humanities” isn’t technically a field on its own. “But,” said Varner, “it is often treated as such by people who consider themselves digital humanists as well as those who adamantly do not.”

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Quartz

Want to Change Facebook? Don’t Delete Your Account—Use It for Good

The Annenberg School for Communication’s Sandra González-Bailón and Ph.D. candidate Ashley E. Gorham wrote that the movement to delete Facebook profiles to protest privacy violations is self-defeating. The authors say that a more effective option would be using the site as a tool to deliver a collective demand for democratization.

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