Digital Humanities describes a distinct approach to the humanities field, routed in technology but also the principles of public scholarship. It is a malleable term encompassing a broad range of methods and practices, with voices in the field often keenly describing it more in terms of ‘doing’ than ‘thinking’ (as is the language more generally used in the more traditional humanities). Emphasis in the digital humanities is often the medium: from studying and critiquing the material of the digital humanities, using digital tools and applying computational methods to humanistic study. The importance of this work is in recognising data structuring is political and its central intellectual problem then becomes how we algorthimise or digitalise a world that is infinitely human – fluid, evolving and subjective.
