A digital humanist[0][1][2] is both (a) someone who applies computational methods and digital technology to research questions in the arts and humanities (so-called humanities computing[3]) and (b) someone who critically thinks about what sort of impact information and communications technologies are having on their discipline, included in this portion would be new media studies.
As such digital humanities is a very broad church. It serves as a glue between people in different art/humanities-based fields and disciplines so that even though I might be in Classics and you might be in History we would still be able fruitfully collaborate. Of great concern to the digital humanities are open standards, open data, and open access. We care about metadata, semantic annotation, encodings, certain statistical methods, network analysis, digital archiving, computational linguistics, concept modelling, the semantic web stack, and so on.
We also see ourselves as the inheritors of the humanist tradition, from Petrarch on downwards–we are certainly not anti-science and we reject the science/humanities dichotomy. Many of us would advocate for a third culture along the lines of Brockman[4] though this sentiment is more latent than explicit.
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