The Humanities, Done Digitally

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

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“…DH, she writes, is a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies. 18 We offer a modest expansion to this definition by asserting that DH also offers the possibility to ask new humanities questions with and about computing technologies. When merged with PH, such possibilities, enabled by computing and therefore the digital, offer a new site for collaborative meaning-making.…”

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The digital public humanities: giving new arguments and new ways to argue

Cox

Tilton

2019

Review of Communication

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In response to the latest "crisis" in the humanities, advocates have marched, rallied, fundraised, and-especially-argued. This essay contends that communication scholars can support the growing "case for the humanities" by analyzing argumentative strategies, and more specifically, by offering ethical argumentative strategies that avoid replicating structures of domination. In particular, we look to Mari Lee Mifsud's theorization of rhetoric as gift, which follows Henry W. Johnstone in conceptualizing argument as something other than winning over an adversary. We place Mifsud's theorization of the gift in conversation with the methods of the digital public humanities (DPH), which acknowledge and offer abundant resources for meaning-making. Through the methods of DPH, we offer a response to the humanities "crisis" that activates the humanities' already broad constituencies by giving resources for humanistic inquiry rather than seeking to capture adversaries. Our case study is Photogrammar, a DPH project for organizing, searching, and visualizing the New Deal and World War II era photographs funded by the U.S. federal government. The project forefronts visual, nonlinear, and interactive argumentation in order to engage publics in generative humanistic inquiry. By enlisting participants and sharing expertise, Photogrammar shows how humanities advocates can deepen attachments to the humanities and build broad constituencies of collaborators and allies.

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The digital public humanities: giving new arguments and new ways to argue

Cox

Tilton

2019

Review of Communication

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“…The deepest roots of humanities computing, like those of corpus linguistics, are cited as beginning with the work of Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit priest, in 1949, who lemmatized the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, building an index of all the words contained in the works, in a project which took many years, and marked the first attempt to take a quantitative approach to text assisted by computation. What followed from this was a realization that computation allowed for a quantitative approach to style and authorship (Hockey, [75]), and what subsequently unfolded from this was a long trajectory of building the tools and protocols to do this successfully (Fitzpatrick,[76]). While computation heralded great opportunities, realizing the opportunities involved a long and hard technical slog by dedicated people.…”

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Digital Humanities and Transdisciplinary Practice: Towards a Rigorous Conversation

Isemonger

2018

TJES

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he digital humanities is frequently and casually associated with supradisciplinarity; either as multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity. This paper endeavors to put digital humanities into a more rigorous and critical conversation with the three forms. Two broad approaches to distinguishing the three supradisciplinary forms are represented, namely, the definitional and theoretical approaches; with the latter emphasized as providing more analytical traction for a critical conversation with the digital humanities. In this regard, the Nicolescuian and Zurich schools of thought on supradisciplinary practice are elaborated with an emphasis on transdisciplinarity, and are identified with a priori and a posteriori theorization, respectively. Digital humanities and its ancestor, humanities computing, are analytically distinguished because the shift in name represents something substantive and consequential for the conversation. Overall, transdisciplinarity is amplified as of particular value for situating and theorizing the activities associated with the digital humanities as part of a new knowledge condition.

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“…[John] Unsworth countered with "Digital Humanities," to keep the field from appearing to be about mere digitization. And the name has stuck… (Fitzpatrick, 2011) The choice of name may seem somewhat arbitrary. In the literature, it is difficult to find any serious analysis of the etymology of the term digital, neither in A Companion to Digital Humanities (Schreibman, Siemens, & Unsworth, 2004) nor in subsequent publications such as Defining Digital Humanities (Terras, Nyhan, & Vanhoutte, 2013) and Debate in the Digital Humanities (Gold, 2012 Digital natives (and digital immigrants) refers to those who have grown up with digital technology (Prensky, 2001).…”

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Recent Semantic Changes for the Term "Digital"

Brattli¹

2016

Proc Doc Acad

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The Humanities, Done Digitally

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The digital public humanities: giving new arguments and new ways to argue

The digital public humanities: giving new arguments and new ways to argue

Digital Humanities and Transdisciplinary Practice: Towards a Rigorous Conversation

Recent Semantic Changes for the Term "Digital"

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