Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies by Amy E. Earhart

Author:Amy E. Earhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 4

Data and the Fragmented Text

Tools, Visualization, and Datamining or Is Bigger Better?

Personally, I think Digital Humanities is about building things. I’m willing to entertain highly expansive definitions of what it means to build something. I also think the discipline includes and should include people who theorize about building, people who design so that others might build, and those who supervise building (the coding question is, for me, a canard, insofar as many people build without knowing how to program). I’d even include people who are working to rebuild systems like our present, irretrievably broken system of scholarly publishing. But if you are not making anything, you are not—in my less-than-three-minute opinion—a digital humanist. You might be something else that is good and worthy—maybe you’re a scholar of new media, or maybe a game theorist, or maybe a classicist with a blog (the latter being very good thing indeed)—but if you aren’t building, you are not engaged in the “methodologization” of the humanities, which, to me, is the hallmark of the discipline that was already decades old when I came to it.

—Stephen Ramsay, “Who’s In and Who’s Out,” History and Future of Digital Humanities Panel, MLA, 2011

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