From CUNY Academic Commons
Welcome to the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, a collaboratively produced introduction to the field of Digital Humanities. The guide is a project of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), a new working group aimed at building connections and community among those at CUNY who are – or would like to be – applying digital technologies to research and pedagogy in the humanities.
Introduction
The Digital Humanities
The Resource Guide
Hackathon Resources
Credits: The Digital Humanities Resource Guide was created by Charlie Edwards, a graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in English and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at The CUNY Graduate Center, in consultation with ITP faculty member Matthew K. Gold. CUNY Academic Commons Wiki Wrangler Scott Voth helped format it for the wiki.
Future versions of the guide will be produced collaboratively by the members of the CUNY DHI community and, we hope, by the DH community at large.
Want to make a suggestion or correction? Please visit Using This Guide for more information.
From CUNY Academic Commons
Welcome to the wiki for the
CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI)
, a new working group aimed at building connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities.
The wiki will be a workspace for our group projects.
Current Projects:
The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide: a selection of resources designed to help orient newcomers to the field, and provide a useful quick reference.
From CUNY Academic Commons
A project in itself. Some in the Digital Humanities have come to feel that the term is too expansive to be useful; others welcome its capaciousness.
See also Hot Topics.
- You can get a feeling for the variety of perspectives from the annual Day of Digital Humanities project (see Conferences & Events), which asks participants “How do you define DH?“; Jason Heppler’s site randomly selects an answer to this question. (Take a look too at Stefan Sinclair’s “Rapid Analysis of Three Years of DayOfDH.”)
- The Wikipedia definition is fairly extensive, but (at time of this writing) does seem to elide issues that trouble people working in the field (e.g., where does DH work take place – only in DH departments? Does “Humanities Computing” equal “Digital Humanities”?).
- See also Patrik Svensson’s “The Landscape of Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly v4 n1 (Summer 2010).
- And Kathleen Smith’s “Q&A With Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH’s Office of the Digital Humanities.” HASTAC, 1 Feb. 2009.
- Matt Kirschenbaum’s “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” provides, succinctly, a history of the field, a definition, and arguments for its value to the humanities in general, and English in particular. ADE Bulletin, Number 150 (Summer 2010).
- The New York Times has covered DH in a series “Humanities 2.0.” Its treatment was for the most part favorably received by DHers (though the comments provide some insight into how the field is perceived by others). The conversation was even joined by Stanley Fish (see Hot Topics).
- Melissa Terras has compiled some statistics and developed an infographic. Note that, as she acknowledges, such representations are inevitably partial and open to critical debate.
Want to make a suggestion or correction? Please visit Using This Guide for more information.
