There is lots of talk these days about inclusivity and DH. Some of this talk extends to disciplinary inclusivity. In light of my own disciplinary background (“I’m not a humanist, but I hang around in the digital humanities community” blah, blah, blah…most people have heard my schtick) I’m really interested in talking about strategies that DH can use to engage with the the social science community (and the more digitally inclined scholars therein). Are there bridges to be built? Are the bridges already there (and this discussion is pretty much moot)? Are there things that each community can teach one another? Is that link already there? Is this kind of discussion even valuable any more (given the fact that it could easily stray into the endless, pointless, and painful quagmire of “what is DH”). I’ve definitely got thoughts (given that I’m a social scientist who hangs out a lot with DH folks)…
Ethan, as you know, at Northeastern we’re trying to bring together DH and Computational Social Sciences. I’d be very interested in joining this conversation. I have some ideas about ways forward but would love to talk about some of the distinct challenges to this kind of collaboration that I’ve seen in the past year at NU.
Ryan – I’m quite interested in your efforts and in this regard.