06 April 2012

organizing early modern texts

The rapidly growing archive of early modern texts online presents significant new opportunities and necessities for the ways in which we organize it. Addressing such challenges raises important questions for both skeptics and boosters: Are new methods of organization resulting in virtual but less reliable finding aids? Do pressures of modernization encourage resource-strapped organizers of  [read on...]

16 February 2012

the uncertain place of review work

Mark Tebeau’s thoughtful post about open peer review addresses some of the terra paene incognita ahead for the Journal of the Digital Humanities in terms of open peer review. I say paene [=mostly] because several prominent projects (Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence, Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki’s Writing History in the Digital Age, the New Media issue  [read on...]

04 November 2011

critical discourse in the digital humanities

[A revised and improved version of this essay appears in the inaugural issues of Journal of the Digital Humanities.] This [original] post is a moderately revised version of a talk I gave as part of MITH’s Digital Dialogues series, titled “Criticism in the Digital Humanities.” The original audio and slides have been posted; this version  [read on...]

05 September 2011

digital humanities definitions by type

If there are two things that academia doesn’t need, they are another book about Darwin and another blog post about defining the digital humanities. But it’s always right around this time of year that I find myself preparing for my digital history course and being pulled down the contemplative rabbit hole about how describe the  [read on...]

05 August 2011

coding in the humanities

One longstanding debate in the Digital Humanities has been the value of teaching programming skills in humanities courses. The main argument in favor of it: 21st century humanists need skills to harness growing amounts of (digital) data. The main argument against: it’s too technical a skill for a methodology that’s largely antithetical to why people  [read on...]

« Older Entries