Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become ubiquitous in our society, AI functions are more accessible and visible. When you use … Continue reading Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge
This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) constantly illustrate that the discipline cannot be confined … Continue reading OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
Introduction The jump from reading the text of the Greek New Testament in a printed edition to reading the same … Continue reading Xeirographa: Learn to Read Greek New Testament Manuscripts
This is a report from The DO Board following the rebrand survey that was run in 2025. The conclusions and … Continue reading The DO Rebrand – Survey Report
In my previous post, I discussed how using Voyant reveals the infrastructural bias of DH tools when confronted with an … Continue reading Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
This article was written by guest contributor Xia-Kang Ziyi (Kyushu University). The author bio is below. One of the biggest … Continue reading Overview of NDL Kotenseki OCR: The Key to Early Modern Japanese Archives?
Following on from Rachael Griffiths’s recent summary of digital resources for Central and South Asian studies, I’d like to dive … Continue reading A Guide to Digital Repositories of Chaghatai Turki Sources
In my first Editor’s Digest, I summarised publications in The Digital Orientalist from the Middle Eastern Studies team between September … Continue reading Editor’s Digest February 2026: Middle Eastern Studies
This is the first entry in a multi-part series on English-Chinese AI chatbot design experience. More to come. Speaking a … Continue reading When the Machine Listens: How an AI Chatbot is Transforming Chinese Language Learning
In September 2025 I published a piece entitled “Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?” where I explored whether … Continue reading Three Months of DuckDuckGo: Reflections after Partially “De-Googling”