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. It is a global, trans-historical, and transmedia approach to knowledge and meaning-making. Such efforts to forge a bond between technology and humanities interests have proved challenging and paralleled initiatives found under various rubrics, including “humanities computing,” “computing in the humanities,” and, more recently, the “digital humanities,” each located, it seems, at the complex point of intersection—or division—between the humanities and technology.
