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Future in the Humanities (FITH) is an open exchange for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and anyone who refuses to let the technology conversation happen without the humans in it.

We publish commentary, host conversations and cultivate market and context-relevant collaboration around the questions shaping digital futures. From an African vantage point, with global perspective, for a global conversation. Actively shaping what comes next.


What you’ll find here:

  • Long-reads: insights and analysis where academic rigour meets on-the-ground reality

  • Conversations with researchers, practitioners and public intellectuals Signals and trends spanning AI, information disorder, digital activism, the platform economy and more

  • Updates from the FITH ecosystem: podcasts, collaborative projects and fellowship opportunities

Curated and edited by Andile Masuku (Executive Editor). Powered by the SARChI SA–UK Bilateral Research Chair in Digital Humanities at Wits University, chaired by Professor Iginio Gagliardone. We’re building in public. Follow along.


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Future in the Humanities (FITH) is an open exchange for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Human futures at the centre. Technology, governance, the humanities. African vantage point. Global conversation.

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