The Promise of the Digital Humanities

I am really impressed by the paradigms that Digital Humanities are anchored on. The mere idea of democratizing knowledge production and dissemination is influential. I also like the idea of Digital Humanities breaking with the traditional concepts of authorship and readership. Here, we are introduced to the new conception of the authorship as a communal and collaborative act. Even we have a new reader and different and innovative approach to literary text and the process of making meaning out of this text. I felt that the movement toward digitizing the humanities is an effective response toward the pressure that the humanities are encountering in the age of technology and science. The humanities teaching is always attacked on the ground of the assumed impracticality of its outcomes. Here, Digital Humanities comes to reasserts the strong connection between the humanities and practice. It also underscores the adaptability of the humanities in the age of technology in which the humanities and technology are involved to produce innovative knowledge.

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