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 is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. This post is the second of a two-part series. The first … Continue reading The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. Introduction: The Affective Engine of the State ‘Recently the slave was … Continue reading The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1)
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)
In my previous essay “Undoing the Canon”, I argued for the urgency of context-sensitive modes of reading Indonesian literature that … Continue reading Bits of Literature: Methodologizing Reading Practices for Indonesian Short Stories
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 is the second and final part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 2)
This is the first part of a contribution based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 … Continue reading Comparing Sentiments in Yuan Zhen’s and Bai Juyi’s Poetry: A Computational Analysis Across Time and Space (Part 1)
Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization. Continue reading Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
Part 1 can be read here. The Zaibatsu had dominated Japanese business and industry for decades before WWII. They monopolised … Continue reading Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 2): Private Capital and the Financing of Historical SMEs
Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and … Continue reading On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation