Communication and Information Science - Digital Humanities

Do you want to be at the forefront of the digital turn in the humanities? The current information revolution opens up exciting perspectives for research and its applications in society.

This Master's track equips you to look at culture, language, history or philosophy through the lens of digital methods.

We are witnessing many exciting new trends in information technology. The vast amount of digital data that is available nowadays opens up new research questions and opportunities for real life applications. This Digital Humanities track offers a systematic way to incorporate information technology in humanities research.
It trains students with a humanities background for the growing number of research and other job opportunities that require processing of digital information. It reflects on the underlying theory and the impacts on our culture and society. It offers courses for collecting, analyzing and visualizing humanities data. Finally, you will be skilled to work with professional databases, programming scripts, and statistical tools.

Students who graduated successfully from this programme were able to integrate a humanities perspective with computational methods. For instance, the thesis “Visualizing trade” (2018), in which an analysis of the Baltic trade in the 18th century was done by using visualization applications on the Sound Toll registers. Another example is the thesis “Accountability across the AI regulatory landscape” (2025) employed topic modeling to contextualize accountability in AI regulatory frameworks around the world. By combining macro- and a microscopic views, the student was able to implement a Digital Humanities approach to a societal problem not just to identify patterns and analyze them, but also suggesting new interpretations.