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Introducing Digital Humanities (Full)
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Introducing the Digital Humanities
Let's start with a definition.
Okay....
but what does it mean?
There are a lot of ways to answer this question...
nearly as many ways as there are practitioners of DH.
Without going too far down the rabbit hole...
let's isolate and talk about five different modes of DH.
The following five categories are borrowed from Patrik Svensson's "The Landscape of Digital Humanities" (2009).
1. Tools
From large-scale databases
to visualization platforms...
like Google's Ngram viewer
http://books.google.com/ngrams
as well as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and other kinds of spatial mapping.
2. "Digital" as an object of study
Analyzing new media
and new modes of behavior and production facilitated by this media.
3. The "DH Lab"
Digital humanities is big.
It's got cachet. It's got cool. But it's also...
just big.
And it often requires more than that heroic (but increasingly outpaced) figure: the single author.
Enter "lab" culture.
Rather than straightforward research projects, many DHers have focused on tool-building to make digital research easier.
They've also begun to rely on the collective wisdom and input of the crowd.
4. Digital publishing as digital humanities
DH means taking advantage of "digital" not only as an object of study...
but also as a mode of production.
Crowdsourcing
Multimedia
5. DH as an ethics
The scale of DH work
from databases and tools to collaborative environments and publications...
requires us to share
openly.
So what's next?
Get involved in organizations
conferences
http://digital-conferences-calendar.info/
discipline-specific online groups
and other information sources.
Take a look at exemplary (and funded) projects
and tool up!
But most importantly...
express yourself.
Thank you!
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/
http://www.neh.gov/odh/
from Lisa Spiro, "Why the Digital Humanities?"
http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
Ruth Brown, "Hot Seat: Finn Brunton," Willamette Week. 15 June 2011.
https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com
http://www.dhsi.org/
http://www.nines.org/
http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=86
Patricia Cohen, “Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land,” New York Times. 26 July 2011.
http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/
http://www.arts-humanities.net/project
http://www.rarebookschool.org/schedule/
http://toolingup.stanford.edu/
http://www.eighteenthcentury.org/
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/