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The surprising ascendance of Digital Humanities: And some suggestions for an uncertain future
Author(s) -
Chad Gaffîeld
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
digital studies / le champ numérique
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1918-3666
DOI - 10.16995/dscn.2
Subject(s) - hindsight bias , digital humanities , scholarship , narrative , humanities , action (physics) , higher education , diversity (politics) , sociology , political science , epistemology , psychology , art , philosophy , literature , anthropology , social psychology , law , physics , quantum mechanics
In recent years, every measure of significant change from research to academic programming and hiring indicates that Digital Humanities (DH) has moved from nascent to significant on the higher education landscape. But is the future of DH bright? In addressing this question, the goal of this paper is three-fold: to stimulate further historical research on the emergence and development of DH; to provoke further critical analysis of current activities and initiatives; and to help cultivate creative thinking about how we can work together to ensure the ability of digitally-enabled scholarship to enhance knowledge and understanding of human expression and action. With examples primarily from what began as History and Computing as well as other text-based Humanities fields, this discussion does not seek to capture the diversity of developments across the Humanities. Rather, it attempts to build on pioneering efforts by Susan Hockey, John Bonnett, Kevin Kee, Ian Milligan and others to examine the multi-faceted activities that, in hindsight, we are beginning to connect within a nascent narrative of DH's history. While this paper offers only select contributions in the pursuit of this goal, the hope is that greater attention to the surprising features of the past will better emphasize their enduring and changing importance for DH's uncertain future. En 2015, toutes les mesures de changements importants, de la recherche aux programmes d'etudes et d'embauche, indique que les humanites numeriques sont passees de naissantes a importantes dans le paysage de l'enseignement superieur. Mais est-ce que l'avenir des humanites numeriques est prometteur? Pour aborder cette question, le but de cet expose est triple : stimuler une recherche historique plus poussee sur l'emergence et le developpement des humanites numeriques, provoquer une analyse critique plus poussee des activites et initiatives actuelles, et aider a cultiver la pensee creative pour tenter de decouvrir comment nous pouvons travailler ensemble pour assurer la capacite des erudits qui maitrisent l'instrument numerique a rehausser les connaissances et la comprehension de l'expression et de l'action humaine. Principalement au moyen d'exemples de ce qui a commence comme « histoire et informatique » ainsi que d'autre champs des humanites axes sur le texte, cette discussion ne cherche pas a saisir la diversite des developpements a travers les humanites. Elle tente plutot de tirer parti des efforts de pionniers comme Susan Hockey, John Bonnett, Kevin Kee, Ian Milligan et d'autres personnes pour examiner les activites a multiples facettes que, avec le recul, nous commencons a raccorder au sein d'un recit naissant de l'histoire des humanites numeriques. Bien que cet expose n'offre que des contributions choisies dans la poursuite de cet objectif, nous esperons qu'une plus grande attention aux caracteristiques surprenantes du passe permettra de mieux mettre en valeur leur importance durable et changeante pour l'avenir incertain des humanites numeriques.

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