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Item The future of digital editing and publishing(Scottish Universities Press, 2025) O'Sullivan, James; Whittle, Sophie; O'Sullivan, James; Pidd , Michael; Wessels, Bridgette; Kurzmeier, Michael; Murphy, Órla; Whittle, SophieItem Creative machine-human collaboration(Routledge, 2023-05-26) Roddy, StephenThis chapter chronicles developments in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning/deep learning (ML/DL) technologies in the creative arts from both technical and creative points of view. It then highlights two problematic themes that emerge in the discourse around AI/ML technologies in the arts. These are the master-servant dynamic and the anxiety that advancing AI/ML systems will replace human creatives. These themes are explored and criticized from both historical and contemporary perspectives before a mature approach to AI/ML in the creative arts, informed by creative applications of cybernetics, and the work of George E. Lewis, in particular, is presented.Item Teaching Digital Humanities: Neoliberal logic, class, and social relevance(University of Minnesota Press, 2023) O'Sullivan, James; Croxall, Brian; Jakacki, Diane K.The digital humanities have a class problem. This is not to say that other disciplines are immune from socioeconomic disparities, but that DH is a space in which students, across all stages of education, benefit from access to resources that would not normally be a necessity in the arts and humanities. To succeed in the digital humanities often requires privileged knowledge and resources, access to expensive equipment, software, expertise and training networks that remain beyond the reach of many students and their institutions. Many students do not have access to computers capable of performing substantial analytics, or they attend institutions where licensed platforms commonplace in DH are not provided. Many students do not have access to digital libraries providing readings and datasets, or cannot afford the majority of the field’s major publications, still in print and quite expensive. Many students do not have the resources to attend the field’s many training networks, and many students, in this age of remote learning and working, do not even have sufficient bandwidth to engage with DH through web-based tools and communities. Education is always subject to the dynamics of class, but the humanities before the digital turn were at least a space through which social relations could be challenged, relatively free of the cultural logic and resource requirements that heighten inequalities.Item The origins of electronic literature as net/web art(Sage Publications, 2018-12-24) O'Sullivan, James; Grigar, DeneItem AI and the editor(Future Text Publishing, 2023-11) Whittle, Sophie; O’Sullivan, James; Pidd, Michael; Hegland, Frode Alexander; Irish Research Council; Arts and Humanities Research Council; UK Research and InnovationDigital scholarly editing remains an industrial craft: the materials, medium and methods are technological, but the work itself remains largely manual and bespoke. And because digital editions are labour intensive, they can be limited in scale. Editors - that is, textual scholars and the makers of editions - were among the first in the arts and humanities to recognise the publishing affordances of the digital. And so it is surprising that machine learning and natural language processing have not yet played a greater role in scholarly editing; that newer forms of computation have not advanced editions to the same degree as markup languages did in the final decades of the twentieth century.