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Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development
2021 •
Patricia Murrieta-Flores
This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the second workshop organised by the Network, and offers recommendations based on these findings.
A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities
2010 •
Megan Meredith-Lobay
Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction: Reframing the ‘Value’ Debate for the Humanities
2013 •
Eleonora Belfiore
The Digital Humanities Situation
Rafael C. Alvarado
Decoding the Digital Humanities
Christopher B Patterson
I gave this talk yesterday introducing digital humanities to the broader research and student community at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My co-presenter, Harry Wu from Hong Kong University who presented on Medical Humanities, began by making a joke: Digital Humanities is like teenage sex. No one understands what it is, yet we all claim to be doing it. But some of us were doing it before we knew what it was. Before digital humanities (DH) was “a big thing,” many of us were already doing DH praxis: posting our research online to the scrutiny of the online world, being as transparent and public as possible about our methods and findings, collaborating with the tech world, text-mining big data (that’s two buzzwords at once!), and encouraging students to develop online projects. We had no funding, no buzzwords, no centers, no brand–it’s just what we did.
Towards a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities
Domenico Fiormonte
In this article I try to articulate a critical assessment of the current geopolitical asset of Digital Humanities. This critique is based on one hand on data about the composition of government organs, institutions and principal journals of the field, and on the other hand on a general reflection on the cultural, political and linguistic bias of digital standards, protocols and interfaces. These reflections suggest that DH is not only a discipline and an academic discourse dominated materially by an Anglo-American élite and intellectually by a mono-cultural view, but that it lacks a theoretical model for reflecting critically on its own instruments. I conclude proposing to elaborate a different model of DH, based on the concept of knowledge as commons and the cultivation of cultural margins, as opposed to the present obsession with large-scale digitization projects and “archiving fever” that leads to an increase of our dependency on private industry products and, of course, funding.
Digital humanities : an exploration of a new programs in higher education and its meaning making by community partners
2017 •
Koraljka Golub
As part of the Digital Humanities initiative at Linnaeus University, this exploratory study is aimed at gathering views and opinions from relevant stakeholders in the regional community in order to ...
A Genealogy of Digital Humanities
Marija Dalbello
Purpose – Reconstructing the genealogy of digital humanities by examining digital humanities projects and evaluative writings. Identifies core arguments related to disciplinary transformation and pedagogy in the humanities fields. Considers knowledge production and transformation of a general humanistic attitude (the Humanities Program) in relation to digital tools. Examines its perceived impact on disciplinary development, pedagogy, and forms of digital text. Design/methodology/approach – Presents a literature-based conceptual analysis of distinct and diverse aspects of the enterprise of digital humanities, by identifying their main foci together with implications of these preoccupations within larger discourses. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of 45 exemplary texts published from 1980s to date, and 14 exemplary projects and initiatives. Analysis highlights several concepts with their underlying assumptions. Findings – The perceived epistemological advantage of digital technology for new forms of reasoning, community development has produced theoretical frameworks and shaped practical directions. Identified three distinct formations characterized by associated digital artifacts, prominent opinion leaders, foundational projects, and document forms (morphs). Research limitations/implications – Research data is not comprehensive. Selected texts and projects are exemplary. Results and findings are relevant for the English-language context and limited by a selective corpus. Keywords – Information science, Humanities computing, Digital humanities. Originality/value – Outlines historical trajectory of digital humanities and the formative stages of development from the discourses of that evolving field. Identifies constructions of technological advantage with implications for knowledge production in writing of humanities scholars. Contributes to practitioner awareness of the history of digital humanities practice. Paper type – Research paper
Digital humanities and the elusive thing
Torsten Andreasen
The present article examines the current academic encounter with the “thing” of the digital humanities, i.e., with the digital as both a source of crisis and an attempt to control this crisis. By mapping conceptualisations of the digital as an object of study, a tool and the constitution of new practices, the “thing” is presented from the threefold perspective of access, evidence and control: access as the newfound availability and emancipation of the digital object, evidence as the cognitive approach marshalled in response to the surge of data, and control as the new ruling practice, whether aca- demic, ethical or critical. The article seeks to demonstrate that the “thing” cannot be immediately grasped or pinned down, that whenever you think you have it, it turns out to be somewhere else. The proposed threefold perspective of access, evidence, and control is but a way of closing in on something that remains forever elusive.
Digital or Material? Exploring Issues of Cultural Value
2014 •
Dr Keri Thomas
