General information

Course type LAS
Module title Introduction to Digital Humanities
Language English
Module lecturer Anita Napierała
Lecturer's email anitta@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position prof. UAM dr hab.
Faculty Faculty of History
Semester 2025/2026 (winter)
Duration 30
ECTS 3
USOS code 18-S1LAA01-P02948

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

Familiarize students with the opportunities offered by the Internet in studying, scientific work and research,through learning about tools and methods.
To see importance of digital humanities in the modern world and understanding the problems and opportunities that are associated with it.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. Terminology and meaning of digital humanities in the modern world
2. Presentation of various forms of the humanist contents on the web
3. Methods and ways of searching data in the contect of digital humanities
4. Institutions and organizations that deals with collecting and sharing humanist resources
5. Bibliographies, databases, repositories etc. useful for research work in humanities
6. Visual literacy in the context of digital humanities
7. Fake news and other ethical problems connected with digital humanities and research work
8. Copyright on the web - rules and law

Reading list

Obligatory

  1. Gardiner E., Musto R.G., The Digital Humanities. A Primer for Students and Scholars, Cambridge University Press 2015.
  2. Wang A., Cure or Poison? Indentity Verification and the Posting of Fake news on Social Media, "Journal of Managment Information Systems", vol.30/4 (2021), p.1011-1038
  3. Smits T.,The Visual Digital Turn: Using neural networks to study historical images, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol 35 no 1 2020.
  4. Understanding Digital Humanities, ed. D. Berry, Palgrave Macmillian 2012
  5. Bovcon N., Virtual museums:interpreting and recreating cultural content, "Neohelicon"38 (2021), p.23-38
  6. Dennis A., Special Issue: Fake News on the Internet, "Journal of Managment Information Systems" vol.38/4 (2021), p. 893-897.
  7. Sutherland, L. A., “Storytelling as a Research Tool Used to Explore Insights and as an Intervention to Effect Change in Public Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior/Practice", Journal of Community Health, 44, no. 1 (2020): 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-019-00741-3.
  8. Liu, J., Wang, Z., (2024). From Chat GPT, DALL-E 3 to Sora: How has Generative AI Changed Digital Humanities Research and Services? https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18518

Optional

  1. Miedema F., Open Science: The Very Idea,Springer 2020