Please find the abstracts presented during the previous TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium below.
We’ll update this overview as soon as we’ve finalized the program of the 2026 edition. Consider submitting an abstract here.
‘Avatar Identity Realism, Virtual Ethics, and Virtual Realism’
This article motivates and explores the ethical implications of avatar identity realism, the view that … Read more
2024
“Alexa, Who is TS Madison?”: Black Trans Femininity and Audience Engagement with Maddie in the Morning
This paper discusses how digitally mediated environments help marginalized people critique hegemonic racial, gender, and … Read more
2024
“Online identities”: From anonymity to visibility and back again?
On the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book), since 2023, many users have … Read more
2024
“TikTok Gave Me ADHD”: On User-Algorithm Relations in Platformed Diagnosis
Trying to understand political subjectivity in the digital age is doomed to fail if we … Read more
2024
Ambient Smart Environments and the Thesis of the Extended Mind
According to the Thesis of the Extended Mind (TXM), some genuinely mental operations can be … Read more
2024
Can we still rest in peace?
The advent of AI systems has changed our relationship with death. The rise of the … Read more
2024
Digital Abuses on our Digitally Extended Persons
The spread of increasingly accessible and sophisticated technology for creating deepfakes is raising several concerns, … Read more
2024
Digital Identity at the Margins: Social Disadvantage and the Online Self
Digital identity means identifying and being identified. For those on the socioeconomic margins, the stakes … Read more
2024
Digital Resistance through Internet Memes: A Case Study of Digital Mobilization in Pakistan
Internet has become a political battleground in Pakistan. This battle is fought with memes and … Read more
2024
Digital Traces of Smartphone Self-Extension
Scholars have long interrogated the boundary between possessions and the self (e.g., James, 1890). In … Read more
2024