Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital

Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement abou...

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Main Author: Svensson, Patrik (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2016
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