4Humanities / IPLAI Reading Group Defining Digital Humanities

Session 8: So What?: Humanities 2.0 or The 'Computational Turn'?

In this our last session we will return to the problems of definition from a theoretical angle and ask whether there is distinction between the humanities and digital humanities. In the digital age, do the humanities stand to become digital in totality? Consequently we will turn to the nature of academic change and the relationship of the humanities to forms of techne and media.
There have been calls from within the digital humanities community for a more systematic reconfiguration of humanities pursuits on account of the challenges presented by digital media and models. Also, with the 4Humanities group, there has been a call to advocacy for the humanities in general through digital means. Taken together, David Berry is calling digital humanities the „Computational Turn‟: what do these assertions and our year‟s discussion mean for the humanities?
Are the Humanities becoming the Digital Humanities in totality?