1. Digital humanities….? culled from Matthew Kirschenbaum’s “What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”
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3. digital humanities is… …associated more with a methodological outlook than a commitment to specific set of texts or technologies (i.e., text analysis tools, data-mining tools, multimodal productions) …a social phenomenon that joins networks of people (i.e, the Orlando Project, archiving initiatives) …a body of scholarship, a pedagogy
4. emergence of the term 2001: planning for Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities:title originally included “humanities computing” (in vogue at the time); changed to “digitized humanities” to “digital humanities,” signaling a shift away from digitization as the primary activity that defined the movement 2004: formation of Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations 2006: launch of Digital Humanities Initiative by NEH
5. Why in English departments? 1. emphasis on text = enduring data type for computers to manipulate 2. long association between computers & composition 3. convergence between editorial theory & method in 80s & implementation of e-archives & editions 4. projects around e-literature 5. focus on cultural studies computers and other objects/tools of digital material culture ripe for analysis 6. digitization and reading (Google Books, iPad, Nook, etc.)
