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Digital Humanities and the Future of Work
The Digital Humanities and New Media Lab - an interdisciplinary research unit at the Faculties of Humanities - Koszalin University of Technology - is looking for authors who would like to contribute to a planned edited volume in the field of digital humanities. The volume will be published by a renowned international publisher (detalis TBA) by the end of 2024.
The future of work refers to a perspective on what business, academia and social environment need to know about work trends and how to prepare for those changes. Among many aspects of the future of work, the European Union mentions: quality of jobs and employment, social protection and next-generation manufacturing, the intersection of health and employment, the platform economy, inclusive workplaces, reskilling and upskilling, and human-machine collaboration.
How can the field of digital humanities respond to these challenges? First, it is important to define the field. Digital humanities should be then understood broadly, as a space that embraces humanistic approach and computational foundations and processing activities, together with platforms, tools, and infrastructures that support blocks of digital activity: digitization, classification, description and metadata, organisation, and navigation. As “designing and building digital projects depend on knowledge of these fundamentals and on a nuanced understanding of the networked environments in which the projects will develop and variously reside”, the role of digital humanities in the future of work is becoming ever more evident.
As such, the field offers a chance not only to improve the quality and scope of research in humanities and social sciences, but also to mitigate tensions that may happen between the workforce and the ever-changing digital industry.
Keeping in mind the above, papers proposals submitted to the edited volume should correspond with the following topics:
Digital skills in the future of work
3D printing as an emerging research field and industry
Cooperation with the industry and social environment in the field of digital humanities
New technologies for more inclusive workplaces
AI in research and industry
Digital humanities and the digitization of regional and national heritage
We specifically invite contributions that combine theory with practical approach to digital research. We also seek contributions that discuss the development of new data sets and research softwares.
The call is open for researchers from EU4Dual partner institutions and Ukrainian universities, which participate in the “Solidarity with Ukraine” Program, funded by the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA).
We encourage contributions between 5000 and 8000 words, though shorter papers (3000 - 5000) will also be considered.
Submission timeline:
15 February 2024: submit an abstract of your paper (max. 500 words) through the following link: https://forms.gle/qfGWekDuvrSgx6uo9
15 March 2024: Notification of acceptance and submission of accepted abstracts
31 August 2024: submit your complete paper (submission link TBA)
Bibliography:
Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Presner, T., Schnapp, J. (2016). Digital_Humanities. United Kingdom: Penguin Random House LLC.
Jones, Steven E. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. Taylor & Francis, 2013. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25883.
Rahaman, Hafizur. „Digital heritage interpretation: a conceptual framework”. Digital Creativity 29, nr 2–3 (3 June 2018): 208–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1511602.
Svensson, Patrik. „Introducing the Digital Humanities”. W Big Digital Humanities, 1–35. Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital. University of Michigan Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv65sx0t.5.
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