Alan Liu, a supporter of the digital humanities wrote, “not even the cliched forms of such issues – for example, ‘the digital divide,’ ‘surveillance,’ ‘privacy,’ ‘copyright,’ and so on – get much play.” Those are all tools of the digital humanities and they aren’t being talked about. They are barely even mentioned. The digital humanities creates tools, but more often then not, those tools never get used. \u00a0They are set aside in a box somewhere and get covered with dust. \u00a0And the tools that do get used aren’t frequently mentioned in a professional setting. \u00a0Conferences and journals don’t mention the tools they use, only about what the digital humanities are.<\/p>\n
We get essay after essay explaining to us just what the digital humanities is and how it is a part of the humanities discipline. \u00a0Of how it is the next big thing. \u00a0In the essay it is “corrective to the ‘traditional’ and outmoded approaches to literary study.” \u00a0In a lot of ways, yes, the digital humanities is trying to take a new stance on how the humanities is run and presented to the world. \u00a0It has to be beneficial to the industry. \u00a0That in itself is a bit of a conundrum. \u00a0If the digital humanities and university administrators want it to be useful to the industry, why then, are the tools that they created not mentioned more in public? \u00a0Why are we focusing more on what the digital humanities is defined as and not what they have created for people to use in the industry?<\/p>\n
Nobody can seem to agree on how to define the digital humanities, so why do they keep talking about it. \u00a0Can’t they agree to disagree? The humanities is about analyzing and studying literature. \u00a0There will never be a solid answer to people’s questions. So why do people only talk about the same thing just using different words time and time again? \u00a0Why aren’t the tools that have been created to help expand the discipline mentioned in those arguments? Where is the expansion that will further open our minds to the possibilities that are out there for us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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