When Golumbia states, \u201cWe should reflect on the fact that of the tools and methods DH trumpets so prominently, few are part of the digital toolkit of most literary scholars today\u201d (172), I think he misses the point of what the Digital Humanities is setting out to do. The reason \u201cmost literary scholars today\u201d do not use the DH tools and methods is because DH is about pioneering new technology for the field, so many scholars do not know how to use these new technologies yet; however, I do believe DH wants to share their new developments with the field of humanities as a whole and not keep it to their own elite group (even if DHers might not have done a great job at this yet).<\/p>\n
Golumbia\u2019s critique of the tools that DH scholars use is also absurd; he says that most of DH\u2019s influence comes from \u201cbooks, articles, blog posts, and position statements\u201d (172), a type of influence he believes is no different from traditional scholarship. Of course Digital Humanists will use books, articles, etc. for their scholarship \u2013 they are humanists!<\/em> Golumbia suggests that DH should identify with a different academic field because they are not relevant enough to the humanities, but then he critiques DHers for the activities they do that align them with the humanities and allow them to contribute to the field. He also implies that DHers do not effectively make use of standard tools such as JSTOR, Google, and Microsoft Word because they are too busy with their blog posts and articles. Again, he is missing the point that DHers want to explore new<\/em> tools for the field and not just sit on preexisting technologies.<\/p>\n With all of this in mind, I would define the difference between \u2018traditional\u2019 scholarship and the scholarship of the Digital Humanities as follows: Digital Humanities scholarship is about exploring, discussing, theorizing, creating, building, and testing new technologies and methods that will enhance the field of the humanities, whereas traditional scholarship is content with using existing technologies to carry out humanities research. Surely both types of scholarship are more complex than this definition, but this is one place for us to start in the ongoing battle about the Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Golumbia states, \u201cWe should reflect on the fact that of the tools and methods DH trumpets so prominently, few are part of the digital toolkit of most literary scholars today\u201d (172), I think he misses the point of what the Digital Humanities is setting out to do. The reason \u201cmost literary scholars today\u201d do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}