In response to a state humanities council question: What are the digital humanities, and what should we do about them?
Digital humanities has three areas: Digital tools that give us new ways to answer traditional questions: new tools to examine traditional texts and images, and perhaps open up new kinds of texts for examination The traditional questions of the humanities, applied to help us to interrogate and understand the contemporary digital world Public digital humanities: new forms of outreach using the web and other digital tools. This would include interactive presentations, mobile devices, and so on. works These overlap in…
