35.657, Summer Schools: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and Opportunities of Interacting with and Through Technology / Italy

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Subject: 35.657, Summer Schools: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and Opportunities of Interacting with and Through Technology / Italy

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Date: 21-Feb-2024
From: Marina Bondi [digitalhumanities at unimore.it]
Subject: Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and Opportunities of Interacting with and Through Technology / Italy


Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and
Opportunities of Interacting with and Through Technology

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

Dates: 03-Jun-2024 - 07-Jun-2024
Location: Modena, Emilia Romagna

Focus: The digital world in which we live opens up numerous
opportunities, but also challenges and risks.
In recent years the impact of technology has been profound and
far-reaching and the speed at which
innovations have been introduced has radically changed the landscape
of research and
communication. New forms of media have transformed our working and
social habits and the
dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Digital technology has also
facilitated the production,
storage and access to information. Research, especially in the
humanities, has benefited from
increasingly complex digital archives, the flexibility and the
multimodality of digital publishing,
the wealth of tools for the compilation, annotation and analysis of
corpora etc. The object itself of
research has changed, often including digital data or focusing on
digital communication and user-generated content in particular.
Dissemination of knowledge has expanded its potential with the
use of augmented reality and gaming. Indeed, generative AI is opening
the whole field of the
humanities to new methods and new research questions.
However, these trends often pull in opposite directions, creating
paradoxes and contradictions. For
example, whilst an infinite amount of information is guaranteed, the
reliability, trustworthiness
and source of that information is unknown, with AI in the background
and the legal issues
associated with it (data leaks, misrepresenting information,
unintended uses etc.). Access to global
systems of communication bring potentially an infinite number of
people into contact, but at the
same time, alone with our computers or mobile phones, we can become
detached and solitary.
Contemporary forms of communication have blurred the distinction
between what is real and what
is virtual. What kind of demands do the new forms of technology pose
on researchers in the
humanities? What role does literacy play in fostering ethical
understanding and critical thinking in
today’s technologically evolving society? Is there a risk of
undermining the active role of human
agents with AI? May too much trust be placed on the machine?
The summer school will try to discuss the challenges and opportunities
of interacting with and
through technology, considering new fields of study, new tools and
resources, new forms of
collaboration in research, while at the same time allowing
participants to explore some of the recent
advances in the field of digital humanities in hands-on workshops.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Description:
We are happy to announce the 6th edition of our Summer School in
Digital Humanities and Digital
Communication, which will be hosted by the Department of Studies on
Language and Culture of
the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with the
Fondazione Marco Biagi.
As part of the Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, the Summer School
aims to provide PhD
students and young researchers with methodological tools for the study
of digital communication
and data analysis. This year’s focus is on challenges and
opportunities of interacting through
technology, with topics ranging from digital resources for research in
the humanities to the use of
new information technologies for data analysis; from tools for
analysing communication in new
media to ways of processing, accessing, and disseminating knowledge.

Tuition Explanation: Free of charge.

Registration: 21-Feb-2024 to 28-Mar-2024

Contact Person:  Organizing Committee
                Email: digitalhumanities at unimore.it

Apply by Email: digitalhumanities at unimore.it

Registration Instructions:
https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/application/



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