First issue, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January–June 2026), will be published in April 2026.
The Article Processing Charge (APC) is waived for submissions until 31 May 2026.
Aims and Scope
Aim of JDHCA
The journal aims to provide a peer-reviewed, international platform for rigorous research at the intersection of humanities, culture, and computational or digital methods, fostering innovative scholarship that applies data-driven, computational, and digital-media techniques to humanities, cultural studies, and social research. It encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among humanities scholars, data scientists, social scientists, and technologists, supporting the development of new methodologies for cultural analytics, digital heritage, textual and media analysis, and computational humanities. Committed to ethical, inclusive, and culturally sensitive research practices, the journal publishes original research, methodological papers, review essays, and case studies that deepen understanding of culture, society, and human expression through digital tools. By facilitating global dissemination and cross-cultural dialogue, it enables comparative and collaborative studies worldwide, advancing knowledge of cultural change, heritage, media, language, and social
Scope of JDHCA
JDHCA welcomes submissions in (but not limited to) the following broad subject areas:
1. Text mining, natural language processing, and computational linguistics applied to literature, historical texts, and cultural corpora.
2. Digital heritage and digital preservation — digitization of cultural artifacts, archival digitization, metadata management, and digital archiving.
3. Cultural analytics — quantitative and qualitative analysis of cultural trends, media consumption, social media content, and digital cultural expression.
4. Multimedia analysis — image, audio, and video analytics for art, film, music, and other cultural media.
5. Digital storytelling, interactive media, and digital art studies — exploring how technology shapes narrative and cultural production.
6. Computational history and computational social science — using data and computational tools to study social change, historical patterns, cultural transformations.
7. Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive technologies for heritage representation, cultural exhibitions, and interactive cultural experiences.
8. Social media analytics, digital ethnography, and online culture studies — analyzing online communities, digital identities, cultural diffusion, and societal impact.
9. Cross‑cultural & comparative studies using digital methods — comparative analysis of literature, media, language, folklore, and cultural practices across regions.
10. Data visualization, digital mapping, and spatial humanities — GIS, digital mapping of heritage sites, cultural geographies, and spatial analysis of social/cultural phenomena.
11. Digital education, e‑learning, and pedagogy in humanities — using digital tools to teach literature, history, art, and social sciences.
12. Ethical, social, and legal aspects of digital humanities — digital rights, cultural property, data privacy, representation, and access in digital heritage.
13. Interdisciplinary research combining humanities, social sciences, computer science, media studies, and information science for innovative cultural research.
14. Media studies and digital media analysis — studying social impact of new media, online content, global media flows, digital culture.
15. Case studies of digital humanities projects, heritage digitization, community‑driven cultural analytics, and public‑facing digital humanities initiatives.
