What is the meaning of the digital humanities to the humanities?
Objekt
Titel
What is the meaning of the digital humanities to the humanities?
PMLA 128
Urheber
Alan Liu
Zusammenfassung
Yet even if we were to complete our hypothetical ethnographer’s chart [of the digital humanities], it would not adequately explain the digital humanities. This is because we would leave unexplained the relation of the digital humanities to the humanities generally. My thesis is that an understanding of the digital humanities can only rise to the level of an explanation if we see that the underlying issue is the disciplinary identity not of the digital humanities but of the humanities themselves. For the humanities, the digital humanities exceed (though they include) the functional role of instrument or service, the pioneer role of innovator, the ensemble role of an “additional field,” and even such faux-political roles assigned to new fields as challenger, reformer, and (less positively) fifth column.
Band
128
issue
2013
Seiten
409-23
Sprache
en