Digital humanities is a field itself is the history and body of literature around humanities computing in the UK and US, which essentially explores the use of computational methods in humanities research and practice. Narrate it as “precisely the mechanization of every possible analysis of human expression, in the widest sense of the word, from music to the theater, from design and painting to phonetics, but whose nucleus remains the discourse of written texts” Instead, what I found a couple of questions/conflicts that seemed to be troubling about this concept to begin with.
- Are ‘digital’ and ‘humanities’ really two contradictory terms that are being bridged together? Is this a reiteration of the ‘two cultures’?
- What are the changes in the object of inquiry in humanities disciplines due to the advent of the internet and digital technologies?
- What methods are to be used to study and work with digital objects? How are these affecting the traditional methods of the humanities, Social science and Journalism?
- Is Digital humanities confined academic phenomena, and can it be related to academic disciplines only? With several groups of practitioners appealing with questions and methods related to DH outside universities, how do we define its boundaries?
- What are the new skills, ideas and tools/technology emerging with, and in turn defining, digital humanities practices in India?
- Is changing of person behavior dew to digital humanities?
- How digital humanities help in public health? How its make more assessable?
- How digital humanities play vital role in journalism for advertisement? Now in India 10% of GDP comes from travel and tourism, how we can increase this by using digital humanities with the help of journalism?
- How digital humanities is going to help in education sector?
Winter Institute in Digital Humanities 