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The industrialisation of the digital humanities
What I fear most of all for us is not the cuts to funding, which holding to our purpose we can survive, but the loss of purpose through complicity in the industrialisation of the digital humanities. What I fear is that we find ourselves in Charlie Chaplin’s place in Modern…
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History Of Digital Humanities - Los Angeles Review Of Books
Dh is about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing
What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or quantitative methodologies to answer research questions in the humanities. It is, instead, about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing…
Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, And The Digital Humanities
Hybrid fields
the focus for this symposium will be to bring together the digital humanities and the bioinformatics communities --both hybrid fields whose members seek to apply computationally-based research methods to address questions within their larger disciplines (humanities and…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer
Despite all this enthusiasm, the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer. Indeed, no one asks it more often than the digital humanists themselves. The recent proliferation of books on the subject—from sourcebooks and anthologies to…
Coding - is it really necessary as a humanistic skill?
Underlying these administrative problems is a more basic question about the nature of humanistic work. A humanities culture that prizes thinking and writing will tend to look down on making and building as banausic—the kind of labor that can be outsourced to non-specialists…
Digital humanities as university administration
But it would be unfair to generalize from the obviously anti-humanistic manifestations of digital humanities to the entirety of the field itself, for the simple reason that the field has no common essence: it is not a species but at best a genus, comprising a wide range of…
A minimalist and a maximalist understanding of the digital humanities
Within this range of approaches, we can distinguish a minimalist and a maximalist understanding of digital humanities. On the one hand, it can be simply the application of computer technology to traditional scholarly functions, such as the editing of texts. An exemplary project…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
From humanities computing to digital humanities
The digital humanities themselves have had a rather interesting history. Originally called ‘computing in the humanities’, or ‘humanities computing’, in the early days they were often seen as a technical support to the work of the ‘real’ humanities scholars, who would drive the…
A more inclusive view of dh
Rather than being drawn into what may appear as partisan in-fighting, I posit the digital humanities as a diverse field of practices associated with computational techniques and reaching beyond print in its modes of enquiry, research, publication, and dissemination. In this…
Should humanities scholars be also fluent in code?
The necessity for executable code creates new requirements for digital literacy. Not every scholar in the digital humanities needs to be an expert programmer, but to produce high quality work, they certainly need to know how to talk to those who are programmers. The digital…
Quantitative vs qualitative approaches in dh
This volume provides pathways of thought for refracting our study of the humanities through a new prism of digital media and technology, while simultaneously helping us to explore the intrinsic and inevitable connection between technology and humanity. The March 2010 conference…
Dh sites need a strong computational infrastructure
A decade later, the term is morphing again as some scholars advocate a turn from a primary focus on text encoding, analysis, and searching to multimedia practices that explore the fusion of text-based humanities with film, sound, animation, graphics, and other multimodal…
Quantitative vs qualitative approach in dh
To return to our opening hypothesis then, the essays in this collection raise the question of what the digital humanities actually is. We begin to see the emergence of a division between digital humanities as a set of qualitative tools or methods, and the digital humanities as…
Themes in dh: scale, critical/productive theory, collaboration, databases, multimodal scholarship, code, and future trajectories
The digital humanities have been around at least since the 1940s,1 but it was not until the Internet and World Wide Web that they came into their own as emerging fields with their own degree programs, research centres, scholarly journals, and books, and a growing body of expert…
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Digital humanities and the reflection on computing
Computing in the humanities is nowadays usually known as the "digital humanities", which seems to be a collective term for the various disciplinary practices in the humanities that computing informs and from which it learns. Apart from but symbiotic with the digital humanities…
Yes Again To The End Of The Digital Humanities ! Please ! | Roger Malina
I predict that 30 years from now the term “digital humanities” will have disappeared from our vocabulary
Astronomy went through a brief phase of “digital Astronomy” as a “transitional term” describing an emerging area of technical specialisation in astronomy ( a search search comes up pretty empty- as does google ngrams- digital astronomy has not been used as a term since the…