"Nowadays," writes Stephen
Ramsay in
Defining Digital Humanities, "the
term can mean anything from media studies to electronic art, from data
mining to edutech, from scholarly editing to anarchic blogging, while
inviting code junkies, digital artists, standards wonks, transhumanists,
game theorists, free culture advocates, archivists, librarians, and
edupunks under its capacious canvas."
... [T]he field has no common
essence: it is not a species but at best a genus, comprising a wide
range of activities that have little relationship with one another. At
its most pragmatic, digital humanities has less to do with ways of
thinking than with problems of university administration.
-- Adam Kirsch. "The false promise of the digital humanities."
New Republic (May 2, 2014)
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117428/