Ben Lee teaches on the library master’s course at the University of Washington, including AI literacy, as well as editing a scholarly journal, Digital Humanities Quarterly. He trained as an astrophysicist, but got involved in human-computer interaction by working with …
Scholarly publishing loves surveys. Perhaps because accurate quantitative information is so difficult to come by in the fragmented and often commercial (and hence private) world of scholarly publishing, many commentators opt for a …
Books about book history are usually triumphalist: how the printed word democratized knowledge, made learning possible, changed …
I expected great things from this book, published in the Charleston Briefings series. Digital scholarship has been around for enough time to assess how things have changed since the era of print; Google Scholar has existed since 2004, which means over …
The traditional measure of academic significance, invented way back in the 1960s, is the citation index. If a paper is cited, then it has significance for other researchers. If we count the …
An earlier post looked at who reads scholarly book reviews, and pointed out how difficult it is to access them outside an academic institution. For John Gross, in his The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1966), this would …
This week Scholarly Kitchen contains yet another post that emphasises what we lose when we read digitally, by an author, Karin Wulf, an academic historian, whose …
Any report with 25 authors must be taken seriously. Or perhaps promises to be fairly dull, since 25 people are unlikely to agree on much that is really innovative. So it wasn’t with huge expectations that I started reading this paper, …
A long-running exchange of letters in the TLS (most recently May 22 2020) makes it clear that literary scholars have become aware of the use of AI tools to indicate authorship. This technique, always controversial, is …
It wasn’t just me saying it – no less a figure than Arnaud Nourry, head of Hachette, said it in a 2018 interview: “The e-book is a stupid product. It is exactly …
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