Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences (2000–2015)

Digital humanities (DH), we are told, exists under a “big tent,” with porous borders, little gatekeeping, and, heck, everyone’s just plain “nice.” Indeed, the term itself is not used definitionally, but merely as a “tactical convenience” to get stuff done without worrying so much about traditional d...

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Published inBodies of Information p. 72
Main Authors NICKOAL EICHMANN-KALWARA, JEANA JORGENSEN, SCOTT B. WEINGART
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Minnesota Press 08.01.2019
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Summary:Digital humanities (DH), we are told, exists under a “big tent,” with porous borders, little gatekeeping, and, heck, everyone’s just plain “nice.” Indeed, the term itself is not used definitionally, but merely as a “tactical convenience” to get stuff done without worrying so much about traditional disciplinary barriers. DH is “global,” “public,” and diversely populated. It will “save the humanities” from its crippling self-reflection (cf. this essay), while simultaneously saving the computational social sciences from their uncritical approaches to data. DH contains its own mirror: it is both humanities done digitally and the digital as scrutinized humanistically. As opposed to
ISBN:9781517906115
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