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Digital Humanities
New Digital-Humanities Minor Offers Unique Perspectives on Conventional Ideas
The minor, spearheaded by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, includes courses from a broad range of departments, from Anthropology to Religious Studies.
Staff Q&A with Lynn Ransom
The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, housed in the Penn Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, is the world’s largest freely available repository of data on manuscripts produced before 1600.
In the News
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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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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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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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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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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