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CBR: New Digital Worlds. Chapter 5: Rethinking the Human in Digital Humanities.
Roopika Risam. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 5: Rethinking the Human in Digital Humanities. Review by: Meha Gupta, PhD candidate, English, CUNY Graduate Center. Reading Risam After AI: Decolonial Foundations for a Digital Humanist Present The relevance of Roopika Risam’s invocation for…
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CBR: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Chapter 8: Revaluating Early Modern Princesses’ Letters as a Source for Cultural History and Corpus Linguistics by Vera Fasshauer.
Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam (editors). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 8: Revaluating Early Modern Princesses’ Letters as a Source for Cultural History and Corpus Linguistics by Vera Fasshauer. Review by: Jessica Corona, Master Student, Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio. Introduction: In recent years,…
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CBR: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Chapter 2: Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities, by Roopika Risam
Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam (editors). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. 2019. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2: Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and Digital Humanities, by Roopika Risam. Review by: Elisa Castro, Master Student, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio. Have decades of digital studies enhanced, altered, or muted…
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CBR: The AI Con. Chapter 7: Do You Believe in Hope After Hype?
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The AI Con. How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Harper Books. 2025. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 7: Do You Believe in Hope After Hype? Review by: Rachael Mulvihill, PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies , Carnegie Mellon University. The AI hype bubble hasn’t…
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CBR: The AI Con. Chapter 1: The Hype of Thinking Machines
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The AI Con. How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Harper Books. 2025. Chapter Reviewed: Introduction: The Hype of Thinking Machines. Review by: Alp Eren Pirli, PhD Candidate in English, Indiana University Bloomington The title of Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s 2025 book,…
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AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some TikTok Comics Do!)
If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to check out social media satirist “Husk” who, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram posts wickedly amusing satires of AI.* His typical set up is to ask a ChatGPT chatbot some seemingly harmless question that…
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Maximizing Productivity: The Key Advantages of Electronic Legal Billing Software
Streamline your law firm’s billing with legal e-billing software. Automate invoicing, manage cases, and boost efficiency with powerful features. If the legal officials are only using your law firm’s billing software for basic tasks and running campaigns, you are missing out on the bigger opportunities it offers. The best legal billing software with CRM capabilities…
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Auditing AI: A Great Book That Holds AI Accountable—And Shows How We Can Too
The Marquand House Collective, Auditing AI. MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2026. Auditing AI is the book I’ve been searching for–and I believe it will be useful for any and every reader who wants to move past hype and hysteria to really understand what tools we need to hold various AI systems accountable for what AI…
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“Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy
(Reposted and revised from “‘Artificial Ignorance’ and Data Sycophancy,” Feb 4, 2026) Artificial Ignorance A recent exhaustive study of AI use by computer programmers conducted by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin (“How AI Impacts Skill Formation”) shows that using AI may speed some aspects of your programming but, it, at the same time, “impairs…
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Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) & Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) Call for Papers and TalksRoyal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden 22-23 April, 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025 Comics and Machines Steering Committee: Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle…