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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · 5d

Big shout out to my wonderful collaborators, Jiayu Liu at UIUC and Keli Du at Trier Center for Digital Humanities! 🤓

Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to share our work is accepted for presentation at #CHR2025! In this work, we experimented with ways to distinguish “parasitic poems”—which do not serve meaningful storytelling functions—from “nonparasitic” ones in Chinese vernacular fiction. Looking forward to sharing more at the conference!

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates:
🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany;
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026;
🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025.
jcls.io/site/dates/

Important Dates

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great insight, thank you for sharing!

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Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢 CFP: JCA Ten-Year Anniversary Issue

The Journal of Cultural Analytics turns 10! We're marking the moment with a special issue reflecting on a decade of studying culture at scale—and imagining what comes next.

📅 Abstracts due: Sept 1, 2025

culturalanalytics.org/post/3316-cf...

CFP Ten-Year Anniversary Issue: Reflections on a Decade of Seeing the Forest and the Trees | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

Ten-Year Anniversary Issue: Reflections on a Decade of Seeing the Forest and the Trees

culturalanalytics.org

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

dh2026.adho.org

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Jul 17

@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social looking to publish computational humanities work? Check out gold open access @universitypress.cambridge.org CHR! We have open submissions and themed issues as well as wide range of submission types including software papers! check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 12

safe travels!!

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm glad to share the new data paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data with my wonderful collaborator @nalsi.bsky.social and students!! 😇 Check out our work here: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

GraphEidos: A Dataset of Visual Rhetoric in Digital Humanities | Journal of Open Humanities Data

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎉 Excited to share our new preprint on generative AI disclosure practices in Digital Humanities! We explore how DH scholars perceive and navigate GenAI use in their work.
Huge thanks to all who participated in the survey! 🙏
Link: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.03216

Disclosing Generative AI Use in Digital Humanities Research

This survey study investigates how digital humanists perceive and approach generative AI disclosure in research. The results indicate that while digital humanities scholars acknowledge the importance ...

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Luca Giovannini @lucagiovannini.bsky.social · Jul 6

Waiting for you all at #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! 🌞

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not had enough of #CCLS2025 yet? Next year is already our fifth anniversary! Get excited for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! @dhpotsdam.bsky.social 🥳
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 3

The 4th session of #CCLS2025 just started and we're excited to hear the talk by @rongqianma.bsky.social, Keli Du, Yiwen Zheng: Verse within Prose. Annotating and Classifying Narrative Functions of Embedded Poems in Chinese Qing (1644–1912) Vernacular Fiction (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)

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Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social · Apr 14

Some colleagues and I are developing a study of AI disclosure policies, especially in academic contexts. If you've come across such policies, please let me know where you saw them or just share the link!

Thanks for any places you might suggest!

@rongqianma.bsky.social @xuhanzhang.bsky.social

Rongqian Ma (@rongqianma.bsky.social)

Assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington and researcher of digital humanities.

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hi DH scholars! We're still recruiting participants and would love to hear your thoughts!

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Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social · Mar 20

Presenting our work with @rongqianma.bsky.social and Heather Moulaison-Sandy at iConference #iconf25 tomorrow at 9 AM! We'll share our initial findings on how AI is discussed in digital humanities journals. If you're in Bloomington, we'd love for you to join us! Full paper: doi.org/10.47989/ir3...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · Mar 3

📣The CFP for #ACH2025, our virtual #DigitalHumanities conference, is now available! The conference will be held June 11-13. Proposals due March 23.

11 June - 13 June 2025, Virtual Conference

ach2025.ach.org

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌟Dear DH scholars! We invite you to participate in a survey on the perceptions and approaches to disclosing the use of GenAI in digital humanities research.
📝 Participate here: illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
🕒 Estimated Time: 10-15 mins
⚠️ Eligibility: You must be 18 years or older

Disclosing Generative AI Use in Digital Humanities Research

In this study, we investigate digital humanists’ perceptions and approaches to Generative AI (GenAI) technology disclosure in research practices, in both US and China.

illinois.qualtrics.com

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jan 21

The mini-track is under the track of GLOBAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN AN AI AGE (SIG CCRIS)

Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jan 20

We interpret "cross-cultural perspective" broadly as differences across countries, regions, organizational cultures, disciplinary cultures, and languages. We invite studies that are both culture-specific and adopt a comparative lens. Both empirical work and theoretical contributions are welcomed.

Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jan 20

📣 CFP: Do you research AI through a cross-cultural lens? Submit to our mini-track at AMCIS 2025, in Montreal, Canada: "Evaluating the Value of AI Technologies: Cross-cultural Perspectives!" 📝

🔎 Details： amcis2025.aisconferences.org/submissions/...

📆 Submission deadline: February 28, 2025

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Dec 5

Very helpful advice, thank you!

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Dec 5

If you're struggling to get your ADHO @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social proposal written, here's some tips for how to do it. DH conference proposals are a little different from disciplinary conference ones. digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/adho-dh-conf...

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Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social · Nov 23

I’m developing a survey on the disclosure of AI use among DH’ers with @rongqianma.bsky.social & @xuhanzhang.bsky.social If you’d like to take it or know how we can get an email list of DH’ers, let me know. We’ll post the link here too and use results to inform funding agencies and institutions

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