Who You Calling Untheoretical?
[A note from the author: This blog post, as a piece of prose, is very much of the moment when it was written. Likewise its reception has been based on its tone as well as its content.
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Theory, Digital Humanities, and Noticing
When disciplines collide, as they do throughout digital humanities, the various practitioners mutually benefit from the different knowledge and skill sets that others bring to our collaborations. But there is also an inevitable gap between how different individuals working in different areas understand their various tools and techniques, and in how they understand their own thought processes.
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Digital Humanities as Thunderdome
Recently at a workshop on digital tools for the humanities, a Stanford graduate student rather poignantly noted that oftentimes collaboration with computer scientists felt more like colonization by computer scientists. This statement, even if not true, is far too sharp to ignore.
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Words and Code
Originally tweeted by Tom Scheinfeldt on November 10, 2011 and Ryan Shaw on November 11, 2011.
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Please Write it Down: Design and Research in Digital Humanities
Tom Scheinfeldt provocatively suggested that “DH arguments are encoded in code” and that he disagrees “with the notion that those arguments must be translated / re-encoded in text.” I don’t think this is how this works.
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