To start off with, I do not believe that Digital Humanities changes *people* fundamentally. DH may attract a certain kind of people who are more open to change but the field itself does not take people who were fundamentally one way and make them another. Most of the definitions surrounding DH revolve around methodology and your method cannot, does not, define you (except in extremely rare cases). It’s like that scholar says: we don’t make clubs for people who write with ballpoint pens.<\/p>\n
So if the method does not change people fundamentally, let’s look at\u00a0other definitions. The one I like best, that seems to practically fit the most, is that DH is either the study of\u00a0humanities through digital tools and\/or the study of digital tools through a humanities lens. Focusing on this definition as context to answer the prompt would seem to imply that if people are changing fundamentally, it is just in their outlook. They learn to ask the same questions in new, further, ways or study the human implications of a completely new technological revolution. I can see where Cody and Eric are coming from through that stand point; that maybe DH changes the way you think about things. However, I still disagree. I think it’s pompous to suggest that any field can change all the people involved on a fundamental or core level.<\/p>\n
However, I do concede that Digital Humanities is revolutionizing the landscape of academia and that might be throwing some people into a panic. Some definitions revolved around community because DH brings a definite inter-disciplinary element to the table. It emphasizes open collaboration and, to some, this blurring of the lines might be uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I am one of the people of the belief that Digital Humanities, especially the part about applying digital methods to humanities questions,\u00a0will be reabsorbed by the Humanities in the future. DH seems to be a transitional stage, to me. The other half of the definition, about applying humanities questions to the digital word, may be a part of Humanities as well, specifically Cultural Studies. Therefore, with the passing of time (and the death of the resistance), I believe DH will be split into its two components and successfully reintegrated into Humanities so this anxiety about defining will die out. Along with new methodology and new study topics, the reabsorption will bring that interdisciplinary cooperation to Humanities so that we can continue to work with other fields productively and beneficially. This will help extinguish the prejudice the Humanities currently face; that our field is less important than STEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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