Politics & Society

Digital Linguistics: An Interview with Piotr Bański, Ulrich Heid and Laura Herzberg

Nowadays, as huge swathes of our linguistic lives are recorded, measured and analyzed digitally, the question is no longer simply how much language data we have, but how well it is organized.

Arts & Humanities

„Huch, alle tot?“ – Buddenbrooks einmal anders

Ob Tortentode oder Papageien in der Zahnarztpraxis: Thomas Manns „Buddenbrooks“ geben auch heute noch Rätsel auf. Wir haben mit vier Expertinnen aus dem Lübecker Buddenbrookhaus über verborgene Details rund um die hanseatische Kaufmannsfamilie gesprochen, die selbst eingefleischte Fans des Romans überraschen werden.

Academia & Publishing

From Books to Bits

How can academic literacy survive in the era of AI summaries and fragmented attention? What does meaningful reading look like to today’s students? In this new blog series, we’ll meet experts who are tackling this emerging challenge – sometimes with unconventional solutions.

Academia & Publishing

Fighting Paper Mills: A Publisher’s Perspective

Criminal organizations selling fraudulent research articles and authorship slots have been on the rise for the last few years. But how big of a problem are these paper mills really? How do they lure researchers into using their services? And how can we stop them? Drawing on our experiences at De Gruyter Brill, we explore what’s really at stake.