Who Is Doing DH? insidehighered.com/blogs/college-… Observations from my trip to @cultureplex and a shout-out to #THATCampHP #highered #digitalhumanities- @trentmkays I'm one of those who says that. I do have v specific reasons why, though.
@readywriting It's sort of like saying everyone does the humanities. It's too broad to support real meaning.- @trentmkays I think it's disruptive, especially to include those who actively don't WANT any part of DH. Radical inclusiveness.
- @readywriting You say inclusive, though I think to include those who don't want to be included is a bit oppressive.
- @trentmkays But I don't think EVERYONE does it (My spouse is NOT doing DH. At all). I think that having that openness is good though.
- @readywriting I also think DH appropriates work that others have been doing for years without acknowledging said work.
- @trentmkays But are they resisting b/c of prejudice and ignorance or well-reasoned decision?
- @readywriting I don't know. But, DH should appropriate the work of scholar who exists before it and will after it.
- He meant shouldn't. Seriously. He told me later.
- @trentmkays That I do not agree with, either. I think it's the result of the hyper-specialization that exists in academia. +
- @readywriting I don't like it when fields acculturate other fields. It's unwarranted, and it borders on Freirean violence.
- @trentmkays I find myself constantly overwhelmed trying to keep up with DH stuff and stuff in my reg field. It's almost impossible.
- @readywriting Sure, of course. But, using a database to catalog stuff isn't unique to DH. It's been done for a long time.
- @trentmkays Oh, I got schooled by a guy in comp sci who was wholly unimpressed with DH's wonder at these tools.
- @trentmkays But, then again, one of the guys even said what the programmers do is "magic" which is frustrating to me.
- @readywriting I think DH is in vogue at the moment, and in 10 years, it'll probably be nothing but a whisper of a memory.
- @readywriting Yeah. It's not impressive. Heck, even in my field, we've been doing this stuff forever, and do we get a mention? Nope.
- @trentmkays But again, how can we know that? We've been trained to stick to knowledge in our narrowly defined field.
- @readywriting I think DH actually does more to fragment and create silos than to bring together.
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