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DHNow: 2017 in Review

Below is the end-of-the-year blog post I wrote for DHNow (originally posted on digitalhumanitiesnow.org): Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break until January 9, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to wrap up 2017. This November marked nine years of publication for Digital Humanities Now. Through the work of our dedicated staff and our generous community of volunteer editors, DHNow continues to build a…

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DH Read: “Twitter’s Response to ‘The Digital-Humanities Bust'”

Over the last few years, DHNow staff have observed a declining number of blog posts that make some sort of insightful argument about digital humanities (I have discussed this previously in this post). One of the explanations that we have identified is the shift from the blogosphere to Twitter as the preferred platform for conversations about digital humanities. In my opinion,…

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DH Read: “Digital Humanities as Resistance”

Like my own post on a theme that I’d been tracking all year in DHNow, the other first-year DH Fellow, Jessica Dauterive, wrote a post on activism and digital humanities. She’s compiled a number of useful posts on the subject and makes an important argument about the impact the election has had on digital humanities as a field. From the post:…

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