Digital humanities
The defining feature of digital humanities is the encounter between new digital technology and the critical gaze and specialist knowledge of the humanist. Against the backdrop of rapid technological advances, digital humanities build on interdisciplinary cooperation and a desire to work across disciplinary, departmental and national lines.
Digital Humanities Uppsala is a research network for digital humanities at the interface between humanities and information technology research. The goal of the network is to bring together, support and highlight research associated with digital humanities at Uppsala University.
Examples of ongoing research
Major investment in research on impact of artificial intelligence on people and society
A major national research programme aims to study the impact of artificial intelligence on society a...
She studies AI as existential media
How are we influenced when smart digital assistants, like Siri and Alexa, become part of our homes? ...
New database for medieval literature launched
Norse World is a new database which will make it easier for researchers to study perceptions of the ...
Networks and projects
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala is a research centre for digital humanities at the interface between humanities and information technology research. The goal of the centre is to bring together, support and highlight research associated with digital humanities at Uppsala University.
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala
WASP-HS
WASP-HS, The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society. The vision of WASP-HS is to realize excellent research and develop competence on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems with a strong investment in research in humanities and social science. In order to do this, the WASP-HS program conducts 42 research projects and 4 affiliated research projects at the current moment. These projects are located at 13 different universities and research institutes across Sweden.
Runor – digital research platform
Runor is a new digital research platform that will make available approximately 7,000 inscriptions with reports and images from various databases, institutions and collections. The platform provides access to all known runic inscriptions around the world. The purpose of the service is to simplify so that you can research existing runic material digitally, wherever you are in the world.
Runor (digital search platform)
Alvin – Platform for digital collections and digitized cultural heritage
Alvin is a platform for the long-term preservation and accessible storage of digitised collections and digital cultural heritage materials. It is also a catalogue of materials that have not yet been digitised.
Norse World – an interactive spatial-temporal resource for research on spatiality and worldviews
Norse World is an online, searchable index of foreign place names and other spatial references in medieval Swedish and Danish texts with mapping capabilities.
Project Nyhetsvärderaren - the News Evaluator
Using the News Evaluator support users’ abilities to conduct lateral-reading and use digital tools when evaluating news (texts, images and videos) and hereby improve their abilities to separate fake news from real news like professional fact-checkers do. The significant impact of the self-test has been proven in a published scientific study with randomized control groups in two experiments.
BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds
BioMe: Existential challenges and ethical imperatives of biometric AI in everyday lifeworlds is a project that deals with what it means to be human in a digital age, when society is increasingly automated.
BioMe: Existential challenges and ethical imperatives of biometric AI in everyday lifeworlds