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#traditional-humanities
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and structures, or adumbrating trends
Further, it is not merely the quantification of research which was traditionally qualitative that is offered with these approaches. Rather, as Unsworth argues, we should think of these computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and…
Traditional humanities focus on a fraction of the literary field
As Moretti (2007) points out, the traditional humanities focuses on a minimal fraction of the literary field ... [a] canon of two hundred novels, for instance, sounds very large for nineteenth-century Britain (and is much larger than the current one), but is still less than one…
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…