What is Digital Humanities?
I believe Digital Humanities is the way we can use technology to create and share new knowledge. Digital humanities includes the databases that are used to collect information digitally. It also includes research or scholarship which can be the analysis of any digital multimedia. Lastly it is the creation of digital art for example; multimedia, games, and crowdsourcing. It is more than just taking something from the humanities and something from the digital world and just combining them. It is about creating something that cannot be done without the digital world.
Laura Soltis
Laura, your last sentence is the best: DH really does examine those things that are created within and for the digital world. Note, though, that just sharing information via technology is not, itself, necessarily a component of DH (sometimes it is, but sometimes not so much).
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