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Spiro, Lisa. 2012. «“This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities».
En Debates in the digital humanities, de Matthew K. Gold, 16-35. Minneapolis,: University of
Minnesota Press.
Given that the digital humanities community includes people with different disciplines, methodological approaches, professional roles, and theoretical inclinations, it is doubtful that we will settle on a tight definition of the digital humanities.
Community that comes together around values such as openness and collaboration.
How the digital humanities community operates—transparently, collaboratively, through online networks—distinguishes it.
Articulating shared values that can then be used to define goals, develop collaborations, and foster participation.
The digital humanities profession, loosely configured as it is, has matured to the point where it needs a values statement to help articulate its mission.
Articulating a set of values for a community should be done by the community.
These values should serve as beacons illuminating different paths rather than rigid rules constraining choices.
Emphasis on specialization and professional authority clashes with the collaborative, crowdsourced approaches of the digital humanities—though the digital humanities, too, wrestles with questions of how to value expert knowledge.
The digital humanities community brings together core scholarly values such as critical dialogue and free inquiry with an ethic focused on the democratic sharing of ideas
The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 advances values such as openness (open access, open source), collaboration, multiplicity, participation, “scholarly innovation, disciplinary cross- fertilization, and the democratization of knowledge”
Open exchange of ideas, the development of open content and software, and transparency
Promotes the larger goal of the humanities “to democratize knowledge to reach out to ‘publics,’ share academic discoveries, and invite an array of audiences to participate in knowledge production”
Reforming education and solving social problems depends on tapping our “collective creative potential,”
Promotes collegiality, welcoming contributions and offering help to those who need it.
” digital humanities will need to demonstrate how it can advance humanities research, provide support for researchers and teachers who want to use digital tools and methods, and reward their efforts
The humanities and must strive to include participants of diverse age, generation, skill, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, nationality, culture, discipline, areas of interest
“If an electronic scholarly project can’t fail and doesn’t produce new ignorance, then it isn’t worth a damn”
What defines a profession is not only what it does but also what values it upholds and how it practices “professional responsibility”
These values must operate in a specific context, where they may clash or get complicated. But they can help to guide decision making about priorities and serve as the basis for the DH community’s goals
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Spiro, Lisa. "This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities." Debates in the digital humanities (2012): 16-34.