How to Contribute and Why it is Essential for the ‘Digital Humanities’

There are numerous ways to contribute, and all are crucial and highly appreciated.

A Humanities Commons group has been established, allowing for a composite and complete collaboration experience with a slick and compact interface.

You can simply comment at the bottom of each post on this platform for basic contribution (I will still acknowledge your input and include it on our rhizomatic progression to be interacted with).

Each element will have a corresponding Google Doc for open and unconstrained collaboration if preferred.

Either way, eclectic insight is the staple of the emerging digital humanities field, and the cultivation of the vast networks of information on such a macro scale is an unprecedented advantage and feature to checkpoint our time in academia. We have surely reached a realisation of H.G. Wells’ ‘World Brain’ dream. Defining digital humanities has proved to be highly vexed, purely because it is in its toddler phase. The signifier ‘DH’ is quasi-tactical as of now mainly due to obscurity, according to Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (2012), and is purely in its construction phase as a discipline; we are part of that advancement establishing this next major academic discipline; our work must be eclectic and laterally developed, both conceptually and spatially through the horizontal integration of online brains.

Docs page

Group collaboration page

Salvaging the value of humanity, remaining vigilant, and scrutinising the nascent digital utopia.