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.
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading The Evidence of the Small: Digital Historical Forensics and What Big Data Cannot See in Wartime Chinese Propaganda
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
The DH Awards include a category for “Exploration of DH Failure/Limitations”. During the DH Awards of 2025, the category did … Continue reading ERROR 404: Failure Not Found
Introduction In the middle Nile Valley—the region extending from present-day Aswan in southern Egypt to northern Sudan—Christian Nubian kingdoms flourished … Continue reading The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities) … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Hegemony: What is it and How Can We Resist as Humanity Researchers
A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is … Continue reading AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and … Continue reading Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
This is a guest post written by Tomasz Sleziak. The author bio is below. Both South Korea and Poland can … Continue reading Education and Preservation of National Consciousness in Polish and Korean Online Repositories
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”
In a previous post, I have highlighted the usefulness of notebooks for writing Python code. I mentioned tools like Jupyter … Continue reading Marimo Notebooks