What Does “Born Digital” Mean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8966056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elias Muhanna (Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-112 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743817000976 |
| OpenAlex | W2785323770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
When asked for a definition of the digital humanities, I often fall back on a crisp formula. Digital humanists use computation to generate, organize, publish, or interpret humanistic data. This covers most of the bases, but it's also a bit abstract. “What sort of computation?” a colleague sometimes asks. “I use a computer at work; why aren't I a digital humanist?” To this, I agree; there isn't much daylight between digital and analogue scholarship. Less interesting than what separates the two domains is the question of what unites them. In my view, the most significant shared ingredient is technology
Algorithm · Computation · Digital humanities · Humanism · Information retrieval · Political science · Publication · Scholarship · sort · Theology · Work (physics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Engineering · Law · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |