Digital Humanities Basics
Digital Humanities Basics
The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Digital Humanities
Beginnings
What does an Italian Jesuit priest have to do with the Digital Humanities? A lot, actually. See, there was this Jesuit priest called Roberto Busa who was not only interested in God and the Bible, b...
Big Players
Roberto Busa was one of the first, if not the first, to apply computing technology to the study of literature and linguistics, but there were plenty of others who followed in his footsteps. Geoffre...
Key Debates
Ever since digital technology began to take over our lives in the 90s, the nature of the way we study, research, and even the way we think has changed dramatically. Is it just us, or has the intern...
State of the Theory
Digital Humanities is the new kid on the block. Back in the 80s—and even the 90s—not a lot of people in the ivory tower were really into it. A lot of people thought that Digital Humanists were...
Talking the Talk
What is literature? Literature is made up of linguistic patterns that we can analyze using the super-duper powers of a computer. What is an author? An author is someone who produces literary texts...