Once again, we turn to definitions of Digital Humanities, and it increasingly seems, at least in our brief foray into the field, that defining is an important facet of DH, or at least something that cannot yet be taken for granted. In our blog post for today, I\u2019d like us to take a run at sketching the role that defining plays in DH.<\/p>\n
More specifically, I\u2019d like us to take a closer look at what is written by Eric Forcier at the end of Fred Gibbs\u2019 blog post. In Gibbs\u2019 words, Forcier paints DH as \u201can ephemeral, seemingly idiosyncratic curiosity that either attracts or repels people, and often changes them fundamentally\u201d (297). This sense of the fundamental runs throughout many of the definitions of DH found in Ch. 20 (and throughout this text, really), and might underlie the anxiety evident in arriving at a definition at all. So then, how might DH change people fundamentally, if it does at all? And what does the risk of such a fundamental change mean as we attempt to define DH? Feel free to turn to one or some of the definitions (serious or snarky) in Ch. 20 to answer these questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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