A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research.
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically eval...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 77; no. 6; pp. 812 - 831 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2026
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