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Tech opens new frontiers for SAS libraries

Tech opens new frontiers for SAS libraries

by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources

Dr Matthew Shaw, Joanna Ashe, David Gee and Dr Raphaële Mouren, reflect on the challenges faced by the School of Advanced Study’s (SAS) libraries during lockdown, and look ahead to the way things will change. Among the novel activity of the...
Artificial intelligence: will technology evolve beyond our control?

Artificial intelligence: will technology evolve beyond our control?

by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2019 | Digital, Features, Republished

Tim Hall and Liam Kelly, student experience managers at the University of London Worldwide, explores the world of artificial intelligence and warns that ‘As technology changes the skills that employers require in their staff, education providers will have to adapt to...
Regulation in a globalised digital economy presents important questions 

Regulation in a globalised digital economy presents important questions 

by Talking Humanities | Sep 24, 2019 | Digital, Interviews, Politics & Law, Republished

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Damian Clifford underscores some challenges with the current legal framework in addressing commercial practices such as ‘puffing’. He also recounts a few highlights from the Information Law and Policy Centre’s (ILPC)* annual conference, and...
Back to the futurists

Back to the futurists

by Talking Humanities | Aug 15, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications

What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine. After the end of the First World War, the Italian...
The humanities have a ‘reproducibility’ problem

The humanities have a ‘reproducibility’ problem

by Talking Humanities | Jul 9, 2019 | Digital, Features

We’ve all heard about the digital revolution in the arts and humanities: digital humanities some call it, a major part of which is using computers to conduct data-driven analyses of complex materials like literature. ‘There are a lot of drawbacks (and benefits) to...
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