Digital Humanities Now

Report: Ecosystem Notes: Black Culture, Black Futures, and a Fight for Our Lives

Admin @ LifexCode — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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DHNow Newsletter, June 17, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editor.

Our Editors’ Choices this week include a LibGuide on the environmental impacts of AI and discussion of AI and book history. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, opportunities, and reports, including a digital archive of cartography. As part of our mission to share interesting and timely DH scholarship, we have a new feature called Weekly Highlight, where each week we choose a particular source from the DHNow collection for special notice.

Editors’ Choice: A Skeuomorphic View of Book History

Ryan C. Cordell — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This post considers the relationship between AI and book history. According to Cordell, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs and the language model systems’ outputs. This post proposes the skeuomorph as a key heuristic for book historical scholarship and the work of book labs. He theorizes skeuomorphism as an embodied cultural critique, drawing on historical praxis to perceive the technical, social, and political operations of media technology that can be opaque in any present.

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Job Announcement: Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive

Letterform Archive — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Reporting to the Collections Director, the Digitization Archivist will be responsible for implementing digitization services and managing resources that support the current and future needs of our team and community. The Digitization Archivist will support the Collections Director in key areas of digitization project management, data preservation, workflow strategy, and design and launch of the Catalog Records Manager. Responsibilities include internal image request, and external rights and reproductions requests, maintaining local server and cloud-based backup repositories, and uploads to our Online Archive.

The Digitization Archivist will keep informed of current developments within the field and participate in professional associations locally, nationally and internationally.

This role will lead the digitization studio at Letterform Archive, have one internal report (Digitization Specialist), and manage relationships with outside vendors. This is a full-time, onsite position based in San Francisco, with some hybrid flexibility as agreed on with your manager.

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Weekly Highlight: Now & Here

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Now & Here is a collection of original research projects created by emerging scholars in collaboration with partners in communities, historic sites, and public lands. Now & Here shares the work of the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

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Editors’ Choice: Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Claire Baytas — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: The tools we use are not neutral. This LibGuide intends to offer librarians, instructors, and others within the higher education community a gateway for learning more about how AI development and use are impacting the environment. By providing a set of resources that can be inserted within broader AI literacy training, the LibGuide makes it easier for those teaching or learning about AI to include content about AI and the environment.

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Job Announcement: AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows at Princeton University

Princeton University — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to conduct research focused on societal AI.

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CFP: Alabama Digitorium

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

In 2026, Digitorium is focused on the theme of Preserve. As Digital Humanists, we engage in so many levels of preservation, and we want to make space to explore and document that work. Digital Humanities is a field committed to uncovering and preserving culture and society that is hidden. Sometimes hidden means time, as in ancient artifacts being unearthed and digitally preserved. Sometimes hidden means marginalized, as in documenting experiences and events outside of the mainstream archive. Preservation is a foundational value that facilitates access to artifacts and stories that are otherwise in danger of extinction.

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Opportunity: Join The DO Team 2026/27

The Digital Orientalist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Digital Orientalist is pleased to announce its annual open call for contributors and team members for the 2026-2027 academic year. We seek individuals who work at the intersection of digital humanities and area studies. Our current coverage includes the following areas – with links to recent contributions within each of these teams – though we actively encourage applications that extend beyond them: African Studies; Central Asian Studies; Chinese Studies; DH Theories and Practices in General; Middle Eastern Studies; Northeast Asian Studies; Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies; South Asian Studies; and Southeast Asian Studies.

We are highly enthusiastic about welcoming applications from new or related fields, such as Oceania or Pacific Island Studies, and GLAM (Librarian Studies, Digital Heritage, Archival Studies). While we welcome expertise in various regional specialisations, all applications must demonstrate a clear connection to digital humanities methods, tools, or theoretical frameworks.

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Report: The World in an Archive: Preserving the Websites of Geographers, Cartographers, and Map Enthusiasts

Tracee Haupt Fugate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Geographic and Cartographic Professional Societies and Organizations Web Archive preserves the websites of groups shaping our understanding of the world. In this interview, Carissa Pastuch discusses how the collection was built, what it includes and why preserving born-digital content is increasingly important for documenting the field of geography and cartography.

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