Defining Digital Humanites

Digital Humanities is an emerging field that connects the traditional senses of the classical humanities with the advancements of the growing digital age. Searching for a definition is difficult.  Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s essay What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? specifically addresses the issue behind defining DH and the desperate need to do so.  When I look at Digital Humanities, I define it as the collective study of the humanities interpreted through digital means. Basically, the humanities are a group of academic studies focused around the study of topics that are human centered. The humanities however, remain are a broad category of study.  It is comprised of human interests that range from literature to language to philosophy and art. Fundamentally what makes Digital Humanities stand apart is the approach of producing something new and different using new and emerging digital tools.

- Josh