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The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) aims to tackle one of the grand challenges of present-day humanity – making sense of the modern, digital world. Our research deals with the opportunities and challenges of the datafication and algorithmisation of society, culture and human knowledge, it develops models and techniques for studying these phenomena, and it takes a critical approach to the implications of the digital on human reality.
Three different degree programs are offered: (german only)
- The two-subject degree program in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (B.A.), which can be completed without admission as a first or second subject,
- the postgraduate Master’s degree program in Digital Humanities (M.A.),
- as well as the module program Digital Humanities.
Summer School: Data, Gender and Society
New at DHSS: Dr. Tillmann Ohm
Tillmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Images and Objects group led by Prof. Mila Oiva. He holds a PhD in Information Society Technologies from Tallinn University, where he worked as a researcher at the Cultural Data Anal...
New publication: Measuring bias in cultural data using Soviet newsreel materials
New publication: Measuring bias in cultural data using Soviet newsreel materials
Authors: Mila Oiva (co authored) • Published in: Nature (link below)
Image: provided by the authors.
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Prof. Mila Oiva starts as Professor of Digital Images and Objects
Prof. Mila Oiva
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Mila Oiva has started as Professor of Digital Images and Objects in our department. She is a leading expert in the computational analysis of audiovisual heritage data and has published influential research based on Soviet newsreel ma...
