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• ITMO’s International Center for Digital Humanities Research Presents Results of DH Week at NYCDH Week in New York

  On January 27-31, DH Week took place in St. Petersburg, ITMO’s first large-scale project dedicated to the development and popularization of digital humanities in the city. Last year, the university’s International Center for Digital Humanities Research organized DH Days, and this time, the citizens who got interested in the subject could attend lectures and workshops throughout a whole week. Read more about the event’s mission, activities, and its connection with an international conference in the USA. 

  25.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  What is digital philosophy? Why do we need to study Instagram and other social networks? And how can social scientists actually benefit from such research? The workshop Instagram the Almighty: Using Digital Sphere in Research was held within the framework of the Digital Humanities Week in St. Petersburg. Nina Bochkova, a digital scientist and a Master’s student at Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical University, explained how the humanities can use social networks and why they might need it. 

  31.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  ITMO University is currently hosting the SPBDH Week Digital Humanities Week, which features lectures, discussions and workshops on interdisciplinary communications and research. Opening the event was physicist and mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov, who presented his research on the topic of “Data Analysis, Reproducibility and Living People”. The researcher also expanded on the use of algorithms and data analysis in humanities research. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of the lecture.

  30.01.2020