TY - CHAP
T1 - Analysing an academic field through the lenses of internet science: digital humanities as a virtual community
AU - Salah, Alkim Almila Akdag
AU - Scharnhorst, Andrea
AU - Wyatt, Sally
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Digital humanities
KW - Emergence of new scientific fields
KW - Network analysis
KW - Virtual communities
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0c251569-d3fa-3bb1-b7cc-463057a60a11/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319186085
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 78
EP - 89
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PB - Springer
ER -