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Opinions and reflections from OU scholars on Digital Humanities

Confessions of a reluctant internet user

I am technologically backward and slow to adopt new methods; usually I don’t adopt them until I’m forced to. Perhaps that makes me the perfect test-driver for new internet tools, on a fortiori grounds: if I like them enough to … Continue reading

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Can Digital Humanities become a research area in its own right?

by Lorna Hardwick Can Digital Humanities become a research area in its own right? This is the foremost question in my mind. It’s clear from the recent series of seminars and surveys organised under the banner of the Arts Faculty’s … Continue reading

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Playing without guilt

I’ve just been uploading to the wiki* the outputs of the recent Digital Research Communities workshop held at the Open University. It’s given me chance to have another think about some of the issues which were raised there. One of … Continue reading

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The best of times, the worst of times, and the philosopher’s digital humanities shopping list

What proportion of all the words that have ever been published, in the whole history of humanity, have been published in the last ten years? I don’t know the answer to that (google doesn’t tell me quickly), but I bet … Continue reading

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The gains and losses of the digital humanities researcher

by John Wolffe, Professor of Religious History, Faculty of Arts Like Elton I am new to this blogging game (see the previous blog post), but unlike him I don’t have a major digital humanities research project of my own. So … Continue reading

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