The Digital Future of Humanities through the Lens of DIY Culture

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Digital Future of Humanities through the Lens of DIY Culture

AU - Roued-Cunliffe, Henriette

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - This paper asks the question: Do the humanities by necessity have a digital future? It argues that the answer to this question is both yes and no. The argument looks through the lens of DIY culture as an attempt to try and understand the future for the humanities in terms of both cultural material and processes. The argument is made first by examining the case of information sharing within DIY culture as an expression of current day cultural material. Secondly, it illustrated how traditional humanities scholarship, such as reading ancient documents, compares to it’s DIY equivalent within family history circles, and how both will continue to use digital and non-digital methods.

AB - This paper asks the question: Do the humanities by necessity have a digital future? It argues that the answer to this question is both yes and no. The argument looks through the lens of DIY culture as an attempt to try and understand the future for the humanities in terms of both cultural material and processes. The argument is made first by examining the case of information sharing within DIY culture as an expression of current day cultural material. Secondly, it illustrated how traditional humanities scholarship, such as reading ancient documents, compares to it’s DIY equivalent within family history circles, and how both will continue to use digital and non-digital methods.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1938-4122

VL - 10

JO - DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly

JF - DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly

IS - 4

ER -