American culture loves results and products–“deliverables,” to borrow current managerial parlance. (“Deliverables” is the latest entry in my ever-expanding dictionary of the buzzwords that have taken over our working lives.) When time and money are on the line, the final question tends to be “What do you have to show for that?” That attitude puts humanities research… Continue reading »
Archives for Digital Humanities
Day of DH 2014: Journo Edition
Yesterday was the annual Day of DH, “an open community publication project” in which digital scholars and practitioners document their day’s activities as a way of answering the question “Just what do digital humanists really do?” (Follow the hashtag #DayofDH for tweets and links to Day of DH blog posts from around the world.) I’m not… Continue reading »
