What Is Digital Humanities?

I believe digital humanities is how people use and interact with digitalized material. It's how people use digital technology to its best capabilities to learn and do research. I believe digital humanities utilizes all technology like; computers, smartphones, social media, etc. to teach and learn all the ways history and arts can be used. In the digitalized world it is much easier to access information therefore people can learn quicker and share information much quicker. Also, digital humanities is a study of how digital technologies influence and change our lives on a day to day basis.

-Jeremy Staffen

Digital Humanities is the study of the aspects of the internet, it’s tools, and the objects within its boundaries, but also the study of human culture. The ‘Digital’ part refers to the computerized perspective like computers, smartphones, laptops, tablets etc. as well as applications, social media platforms and multimedia. The ‘Humanities’ part refers to the arts like education, fine arts i.e. music and writing, history, literature, foreign language, sociology and psychology. Digital Humanities is the presentation of human culture on the internet and medias connected to the internet.

-Kiri McCoy

The field of digital humanities is not a concrete field with a strict definition like science, but rather it is an open field with many interpretations and dimensions and putting a strict definition on that is next to impossible. Many humanists have different variations and ideas about the following. Digital humanities encompass many different types of humanities and adapt them to a digital format. These include databases, scholarly research, or creating digital art. Digital humanities include many values including but not limited to openness, collaboration, and diversity. These values allow the field of digital humanities to continuously expand and become better understood by everyone. Allowing the ability to open up the digital world to the many different disciplines of humanities allows for instant intelligence collaboration amongst humanists in different locations otherwise not possible. Databases open up the world and give access to books and readings in an instant that otherwise would not be able to be obtained by individuals. With every individual that reads a piece of work comes another opinion on that topic. Digital humanities allow the opinions of normal or emerging faces in the discipline to be heard. The digital humanities realm gives possibilities to things otherwise thought of as impossible.

-Travis Moulayianis

Digital Humanities is a field of study mixing the various disciplines in traditional Humanities with current technology and computing. It is a continuously broadening definition trying to encompass all the facets within the two fields and more are being added every year. Digital objects are created and enhanced in new ways with the continuously expanding and evolving spectrum of tools offered written in a poetry of code. The process is done under ethical guidelines of openly sharing resources and results in an unrestrained community welcoming everyone to teach or learn.

-Lawrence Bruce