Category Archives: What are Digital Humanities?

DH and Disciplinarity

Valerie Smith passed this interesting post on DH my way.  I think to some degree the post is misnamed–seeming to be either a critique of DH or of literary studies, when it is in fact more about the way in … Continue reading

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Discussion of Henry Jenkins and Lev Manovich

I thought I’d get down a few notes regarding our meeting and discussion today.  Since not everyone can make every meeting, it seems to me that it might be worthwhile to have the discussion after the discussion that summarizes and … Continue reading

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Observations from THATCampPhilly: things a beginner ought to think about regarding Digital Humanities

David Pettegrew and I are attending the THATCamp Bootcamp in Philly, so I thought I’d offer just a few observations based on the morning sessions.  I am very clearly an earnest beginning in some of this stuff related to Digital … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities vs the digital humanist // HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT

http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/digital-humanities-vs-the-digital-humanist/ Whitney Anne  Trettien draws attention to a basic dichotomy in approaches to Digital Humanities. Like Big Scence and ordinary science, the dominance of already existing paradigms for the non-digital humanities has become the norm for academic scholarship in the … Continue reading

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