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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Humanities on the internet have long occupied a liminal space between functioning as updates to traditional humanities and new cultural forms. Digital Humanities is a wholly new type of humanities that is neither derivative of nor disdainful towards traditional humanities. | |||
The new field is building exciting new types of | The new field is building exciting new types of scholarship and art based on unprecedentedly interdisciplinary collaborations and a reimagining of traditional conceptions of intellectual property and copyright. Digital Humanities encourages remix and mash-up culture, iterative production and hugely collaborative processes and products. It aims to move the innovations of cyberspace out of the fringe and into their own intellectual territory. | ||
==Recommended Readings== | ==Recommended Readings== | ||
Revision as of 10:27, 25 July 2011
Overview
Humanities on the internet have long occupied a liminal space between functioning as updates to traditional humanities and new cultural forms. Digital Humanities is a wholly new type of humanities that is neither derivative of nor disdainful towards traditional humanities.
The new field is building exciting new types of scholarship and art based on unprecedentedly interdisciplinary collaborations and a reimagining of traditional conceptions of intellectual property and copyright. Digital Humanities encourages remix and mash-up culture, iterative production and hugely collaborative processes and products. It aims to move the innovations of cyberspace out of the fringe and into their own intellectual territory.
Recommended Readings
Relevant Models
Related Harvard Projects/Initiatives
- Critical Media Practice
- Ethnography Lab
- Film Study Center
- Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments
- Woodberry Poetry Room
- Mahindra Humanities Center
- Center for Geographic Analysis
- The Laboratory at Harvard
Other Projects
- Todd Presner :: Hypercities
- Chris Johanson :: Experiential Classics
- Timothy Lenoir :: Mouse Site
- Tara McPherson :: Vectors Journal
- Richard White and John Christensen :: The Spatial History Project
- Blast Theory
- Stanford Humanities Lab :: Life Squared
- Dan Edelstein :: Mapping the Republic of Letters
- Johanna Drucker :: Graphesis
- Marsha Kinder :: The Labyrinth Project
- Jerome McGann :: Making NINES
- Bruce Sterling :: Dead Media Project
- Diane Favro :: Digital Roman Forum
Other Centers
- Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA
- Center for History and New Media at George Mason
- Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design
- Design | Media | Arts at UCLA