Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

A. Akdag Salah; A. Scharnhorst; S. Wyatt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6

Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

A. Akdag Salah^*, A. Scharnhorst, S. Wyatt

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Digital humanities (dh) has been depicted as an innovative engine for humanities, as a challenge for data science, and as an area where libraries, archives and providers of e-research infrastructures join forces with research pioneers. However dh is defined, one thing is certain: dh is a new community which manifests and identifies itself via the internet and social media. In this paper we propose to describe dh as a virtual community (vc), and discuss the implications of such an epistemic approach. We start with a (re)inspection of the scholarly discourse about vcs, and the analytic frameworks which have been applied to study them. We discuss the aspects that are highlighted by taking such a stance, and use the guidelines proposed by the fp7 european network of excellence in internet science (eins) in our investigation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings
Editors	T. Tiropanis, A. Vakali, L. Sartori, P. Burnap
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	78-89
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-18608-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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Akdag Salah, A., Scharnhorst, A., & Wyatt, S. (2015). Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community. In T. Tiropanis, A. Vakali, L. Sartori, & P. Burnap (Eds.), Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 78-89). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6

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Akdag Salah, A, Scharnhorst, A & Wyatt, S 2015, Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community. in T Tiropanis, A Vakali, L Sartori & P Burnap (eds), Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 78-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6

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Akdag Salah A, Scharnhorst A, Wyatt S. Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community. In Tiropanis T, Vakali A, Sartori L, Burnap P, editors, Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Dordrecht: Springer. 2015. p. 78-89 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6