I think the essay describes DH effectively in that it addresses some of the previous concerns of Digital Humanists but also raises new questions and perspectives. The argument, as in previous essays, that DH is changing the field of the humanities is again present in this text: \u201cDigital Humanities has often tended to be anti-interpretive, especially when interpretation is understood as a political activity\u201d (Allington 6). The new idea presented here is how DH is intertwined within the university system, not just how it changes aspects of the field of Humanities. These ideas echo the \u2018Anonymous vs. Gannon\u2019 debate \u2013 the reluctance to use technology versus DH\u2019s methods being incorporated into (and even potentially absorbing) methods of traditional humanities.<\/p>\n
The fact that the authors are also engaging with other Digital Humanists\u2019 works shows how the field is expanding and how it responds to criticisms presented within; for example, one of the chief criticisms of the DH field is that the scholars often work on their own projects and rarely, if ever, collaborate or consult other works.\u00a0 However, the scholars in this essay reference other DHer\u2019s such as Liu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think the essay describes DH effectively in that it addresses some of the previous concerns of Digital Humanists but also raises new questions and perspectives. The argument, as in previous essays, that DH is changing the field of the humanities is again present in this text: \u201cDigital Humanities has often tended to be anti-interpretive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}