Criticism of the Digital Humanities
The digital humanities have experienced tremendous advances and growth since it emerged from humanities computing in the early 2000s. New journals, conferences, organizations, academic departments, and innovative initiatives have foregrounded the discipline and brought it to the attention of the wider scholarly community. Thousands of publications in literary studies, the classics, history, cultural studies, and a host of other disciplines have advanced the digital humanities. In addition, many other areas, including library science and even medicine, have been influenced by digital humanities innovations, methodologies, techniques, and professional practices. However, since its inception, there have been substantive criticisms of this new field, as was previously the case with humanities computing. This section provides an overview of some of these criticisms and discusses ways that they are being addressed by digital humanists.
