Inna Kizhner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University DHSS Hub. Her research focuses on the quantitative analysis of metadata to identify biases and outliers in the representation of museum collections in Google Arts and Culture, major art museums, ethnic minorities (forthcoming in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities), as well as patterns in the distribution of wine across the Mediterranean. She is also investigating new media art archives to explore canon formation and to examine how the circumstances of archive creation influence knowledge dissemination, future generative art, and the functioning of cultural digital objects that represent media art as data sources for the creative industries. Her teaching portfolio includes developing and teaching undergraduate courses, such as Introduction to Digital Humanities, Computational Text Analysis and Information Ethics. She has supervised over twenty undergraduate dissertations, four master's theses, and two PhD theses bridging Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Kizhner, I., Skorinkin, D., M. Terras, Y. Netzer, M. Lavee. ‘Ethnic bias in online museum collections: skews and bias in digital material culture’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (accepted for publication).
Kizhner, I. (2024). “Museum collections as data: are we ready to do collection analysis at scale for research in the humanities?”. Digital Humanities Research 1: 45-62. In Russian.
Kizhner, I., G. Gambash, G. Bar-Oz, G. Avni. (2024). “Distribution patterns of Gaza wine vs Cilician wine in the eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity”. Levant 56(3): 408-424.
Zhitomirsky-Geffet, M., I. Kizhner, S. Minster. (2023). “A comparative study of cultural bias in online databases of two large museums”. Journal of Documentation 79.2: 320-340.
Kizhner, I., M. Terras, M. Rumyantsev, V. Khokhlova, E. Demeshkova, J. Afanaseva. (2021). “Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture”. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36(3): 607-640.
Kizhner, I., M. Terras, M. Rumyantsev, K. Sycheva, I. Rudov, J. Afanaseva. (2019). “Accessing Russian culture online: The scope of digitization in museums across Russia”. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34(2): 350-367.
Book Chapters
Kizhner, I., M. Rumyantsev. (2023). “Digital collections of cultural heritage”. In Alexandre Antopolsky et al. Digital Humanities, Siberian Federal University Press. In Russian.
Kizhner, I., M. Terras, J. Afanaseva, M. Sherer, D. Pusenkova, D. Skorinkin. (2022). “The culture of the very rich and very poor: do museum digital collections tell us anything about Jewish culture?”. In Gerben Zaagsma et al. (eds) Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
Kizhner, I., M. Terras, B. Orekhov, L. Manovich, I. Kim, M. Rumyantsev, A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya. (2022). The history and context of Digital Humanities in Russia. In Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Paola Rikaurte (eds) Global Debates in Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press.