Reading
- The Emerging Field of Digital Humanities: An Interview with Johanna Drucker
- Meaning of the Digital Humanities
- Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
- The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities
- Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven Scholarship
- Digital Humanities @ Duke University Libraries
- The Digital Humanities Stack
- Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
The Emerging Field of Digital Humanities: An Interview with Johanna Drucker
This interview provides a succinct definition and description of the digital humanities by Johann Drucker, Ph.D., an artist and writer in areas related to the digital humanities. With Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, she is an author of Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), a seminal book in the field. Among her many publications is the influential Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship, appearing in Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). She is currently the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In this interview, Dr. Drucker provides a definition of the digital humanities in terms of interdisciplinarity and the tools, techniques and used by digital humanists, as well as some relevant applications:
She also emphasizes the crucial role of text-based scholarship and linguistic in the development of the digital humanities, and discusses her co-authored book Digital_Humanities.
Many of the topics to which Dr. Drucker alludes will be covered in this program. Many of the new approaches she mentions, including information visualization, network analysis, imaging, data mining, and geospatial tools and techniques will be discussed in detail.
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Meaning of the Digital Humanities
An article by Dr. Alan Liu, an influential scholar in the digital humanities. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is affiliated with the Media Arts and Technology graduate program there. He also taught at Yale University.
As the title states, the article is concerned with the question of meaning. Liu poses the question of the meaning of the digital humanities for the humanities in general. As Liu states: “The question of the meaning of the digital humanities best opens such an argument to view because it registers both a specific problem in the digital humanities and the larger crisis of the meaningfulness of today’s humanities.”
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Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
In this article, Patrik Svensson, scholar, writer, and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2016 to 2020, traces the development of the digital humanities, and how it emerged from