{"id":458,"date":"2016-09-19T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:57:24","slug":"terras-response-she-doesnt-even-go-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/terras-response-she-doesnt-even-go-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Terras Response: She doesn&#8217;t even go here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeing a part of a discipline gives a scholar a sense of belonging, identity, and kudos.\u00a0 But the idea of what constitutes a discipline is muddy, and often hinges around the bricks and mortar proof of a university department\u2019s existence\u201d [72].\u00a0 Terras frequently refers to the Humanities Computing field as a community.\u00a0 This assertion is makes Terras easily connected to Lisa Spiro\u2019s \u201cThis is Why We Fight.\u201d\u00a0 Spiro\u2019s attempt to create a values system for Digital Humanists not only aligns her perspective on the <em>feeling <\/em>with Terras, but also with Becher and Trowler, cited within Terras: \u201cDisciplines have identities and cultural attributes.\u00a0 They have measurable communities\u2026\u201d [73].\u00a0 Of course, this connection is only made with the understanding that a discipline is a community, a focus of study, with or without varying degrees of autonomy within the academic support system of a university.\u00a0 That connection and community, for these scholars, seems to appear more as a focus of study than a methodology, which is <em>slightly <\/em>at odds with some of our other scholars.\u00a0 Terras is not as concerned with the minutia of defining DH, from her perspectives, others have a handle on that argument.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was a little surprised when Terras made sure to note the language barriers of scholarship.\u00a0 That almost never seems to be an issue of concern for scholars, but for a someone in DH or HC, it apparently is.\u00a0 Is that because of Terras\u2019s engineering background?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 But as an inclusivehippyliberalhumanist, I\u2019d like to think we are normally good about taking culture, ability, and access into consideration [whether we actually care about those things, is a different debate].\u00a0 I would wager it is the <em>Digital <\/em>part of a DH that invites a scholar to think critically about the accessibility of scholarship.\u00a0 The internet is accessible, the tools DHers make are accessible, but \u201cIs participating in the DH community accessible?\u201d becomes the question.\u00a0 Normally if a discipline is represented in higher education, we can conclude, if someone accesses higher ed they can access this discipline.\u00a0 That appears to come into question for Terras when she notes the \u201cdomination\u201d of U.S. and Canadian scholarship.\u00a0 \u201cOnly five abstracts were accepted in other languages: French, German, and Spanish.\u00a0 \u2026 Additionally, the scholars are all\u2026. Also noticeable in their absence\u2026\u201d [84] We get the sense Terras is on the outside looking in, for a number of possible reasons.\u00a0 She is English, rather than American or Canadian, she\u2019s a literary\/engineering hybrid, and she takes a very social sciences inspired writing approach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, whether Terras is a part of the community does not seem to matter much.\u00a0 She seems concerned about the standing, just like everyone else.\u00a0 If only from our perspective, Terras is a Humanist Computer.\u00a0 That may reveal that taking concern with DH, using the methods, and participating in the shaping of that community, makes you a Digital Humanist. That implies the field is more an open system than closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeing a part of a discipline gives a scholar a sense of belonging, identity, and kudos.\u00a0 But the idea of what constitutes a discipline is muddy, and often hinges around the bricks and mortar proof of a university department\u2019s existence\u201d [72].\u00a0 Terras frequently refers to the Humanities Computing field as a community.\u00a0 This assertion is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}