About DHX
The Digital Humanities Exchange (DHX) at UC Irvine is an interdisciplinary and collaborative hub for scholars exploring the intersections of the humanities and the digital. We bring together faculty, graduate students, librarians, and researchers who engage both the use of digital tools in humanities research and teaching and the critical study of the social, cultural, political, and environmental dimensions of digital technologies. For us, “digital humanities” includes not only computational methods and digital collections, but also the interpretive, historical, and theoretical work needed to understand data, platforms, artificial intelligence, infrastructures, and media systems as deeply humanistic problems.
DHX fosters conversation across disciplines and roles through reading groups, workshops, skill-shares, talks, and collaborative projects. Our programming supports methodological exchange (from digital storytelling and open-source tools to accessibility practices), while also creating space for critical inquiry into issues such as digital labor, platform economies, AI in education, data governance, and the uneven global impacts of technological systems. We are committed to approaches that resist technological hype, attend to power and inequality, and foreground the values of care, access, and collective learning.We aim to make digital scholarship more inclusive and sustainable by supporting emerging researchers, highlighting work across campus, and building connections between humanities inquiry and the technical infrastructures that undergird our institution and shape our society. DHX not only provides a space for learning new tools and methods, but opens opportunities to question how and why those tools and methods matter.
To learn more, join the DHX listserv or email sj.koh@uci.edu.