34.1143, Summer Schools: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and (new) literacies / Italy

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Subject: 34.1143, Summer Schools: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and (new) literacies / Italy

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Date: 04-Apr-2023
From: Marina Bondi [digitalhumanities at unimore.it]
Subject: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and (new) literacies / Italy

Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and (new) literacies

Host Institution: Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Website: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/

Dates: 12-Jun-2023 - 16-Jun-2023
Location: Modena, Emilia Romagna

Focus: Technological advances continue to transform the way we think,
communicate, work and live,
imposing more and more demands on our ability to access, read and
interpret information.
Nowadays the meaning of literacy has stretched far beyond its
traditional sense of the ability to
read and write text. Over the years, we have had to come to terms with
computer literacy, media
literacy, visual literacy, multimodal literacy and more recently AI
literacy. The various formats
and affordances created by the new technologies call upon multiple
semiotic modes (verbal, visual,
aural, spatial and gestural). In the process, these technologies are
having a marked impact on how
we receive, perceive and interpret information, and thus on the
dissemination of knowledge.
The digital revolution opens up new intellectual horizons. One
consequence is that it enriches the
variety and capacity of methodologies that can be adopted in research
in the humanities, including
in fields such as linguistics, history and education. But recent
development of tools like ChatGPT
and DALL-E2 inevitably give rise to concern about the long-term
effects that generative artificial
intelligence may have on society and individuals. Will AI undermine
human abilities and skills,
even making some redundant? Will it lessen the desire to think, write,
or draw for ourselves?
Alternatively, can AI be an ally, stimulating new forms of human
creativity and novel research
pathways. What kind of consequences might it have on the labour
market, on the business world,
and on political organizations? Which legal adjustments and loopholes
might AI lead to?
The 2023 Summer School will try to address some of these questions
from different disciplinary
points of view, while at the same time giving participants an
opportunity to explore some of the
recent advances in the field of digital humanities in hands-on
workshops.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Special Qualifications:
PhD

Description:
The Department of Studies on Language and Culture of the University of
Modena and Reggio
Emilia in collaboration with the Fondazione Marco Biagi promote their
5th edition of a Summer
School in Digital Humanities and Digital Communication, aimed at
providing PhD students and
young researchers with methodological tools for the study of digital
communication and data
analysis. Topics range from digital resources for research in the
humanities to the use of new
information technologies for data analysis, tools for analysing
communication in new media and
ways of disseminating knowledge through new ways of processing and
accessing knowledge

Tuition Explanation: Free of tuition

Registration: 04-Apr-2023 to 26-Apr-2023

Contact Person: Marina Bondi
                Email: digitalhumanities at unimore.it

Apply by Email: digitalhumanities at unimore.it

Registration Instructions:
We invite contributions from PhD students and young non-tenured
researchers from a variety of
disciplines interested in digital communication, digital humanities,
and transdisciplinary
approaches to the field.
The selection of participants is based on a review process organised
by the scientific committee of
the summer school. The application will be subjected to a double-blind
peer review. Based on this
review, the scientific committee of the summer school will select the
participants.
The selection criteria are:
▪ quality of the PhD project, assessed in relation to its:
i) theoretical approach;
ii) methodological standards;
iii) potential for innovation;
▪ the relevance of the aims and objectives of the PhD project within
the areas covered.
Participants will be expected to present their work at the Summer
School, either in the form of a
presentation or of a poster.

The application form includes:
1. abstract of the PhD project/current research project (max 2500
characters, including
spaces)
2. a short CV according to a given model (see
https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/application/)
Send application form, abstract and CV to:
digitalhumanities at unimore.it (with the subject of
the email “APPLICATION NAME-SURNAME”)

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