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Introduction to digital humanities

Digital Humanities: Current Perspective, Practices, and Research

ISBN: 978-1-78190-688-0, eISBN: 978-1-78190-689-7

Publication date: 25 November 2013

Abstract

This Chapter provides an overview of the field of digital humanities and examines the arguments that are helping to shape it in a variety of ways. This chapter explores the unique difference in perspective between the “code” as the basis of understanding the humanities in general and digital humanities more specifically and the focus of pedagogues, who believe that it is indeed the examination and expression of the humanities that help shape the code, thus giving the code meaning. There are also those who focus more on research within the field and are not conversant on how various tools work but instead why they are chosen in the first place. This chapter also explores how the work of students, as user of that which we in the field code, teach and research, impacts the discipline.

Citation

(2013), "Introduction to digital humanities", Digital Humanities: Current Perspective, Practices, and Research (Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-9968(2013)0000007001

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