Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa

Aims & Scope

Our definition of Digital Humanities includes areas such as computational linguistics, human language technologies and literary studies, digital arts, and media. Additionally, fields like technology criticism, digital library studies, information, and archive studies, are some of our core areas of research and application. However, the list is by no means exhaustive. “Digital Humanities is a mode of inquiry and scholarship. It seeks to engage traditional questions using computational tools. It seeks to disseminate information in digital formats. And it engages questions of how reliance on computational tools shapes the questions asked and interpretations offered in the humanities.” Jeri Wieringa. Even more pressing the role of the “Humanities” in the “Digital” requires scholarly engagement because: “Ours is an era in which the humanities have the potential to play a vastly expanded creative role in public life. Digital Humanities asks what it means to be a human being in the networked information age and to participate in communities of practice, asking and answering research questions that cannot be reduced to a single genre, medium, discipline, or institution. Digital Humanities represents a major expansion of the purview of the humanities, precisely because it brings the values, representational and interpretive practices, meaning-making strategies, complexities, and ambiguities of being human into every realm of experience and knowledge of the world.” Digital_Humanities (2012) Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp. MIT Press, Cambridge. We interpret digital humanities broadly, as a conglomerate of different fields, approaches, and perspectives. We include, but do not limit ourselves to, computational linguistics, human language technologies, literary studies, digital arts and media, technology criticism, digital library, information and archive studies.

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