Category Archives: gadfly

I am associated with a group called 4Humanities that is a Digital Humanities advocacy group based in the US that is advocating for the Humanities. The economic reality of the recession in the US and Europe has put enormous pressures on Humanities schools and many are closing or losing staff. The group is doing a [...]

One of the more difficult areas that the more service focussed domain of the Digital Humanities traverses is between infrastructure development (ie. large computing systems that link various institutions together) and broader discipline-specific debates in the humanities. A tenured historian or linguist, with many years experience of the field, may be confronted by the decisions [...]

I am increasingly confronted by many in the broader Digital Humanities field’s hackneyed claims that they are underprivileged. I see full Professors do this, Directors of Centres do this, lecturers and programmers do it. They claim that because they are Digital Humanists that they are misunderstood and unloved. They claim that they are discriminated against, [...]

The ‘what is’ question is a tough one. Researchers get it a lot. And it is probably more prevalent in Australia than any where else because of our excessively modern penchant for simplicity and speed. Australia’s want simple answers quickly and if they aren’t provided, then there must be something wrong with the search engine. [...]