Patrik Svensson: “The Landscape of Digital Humanities”
Thursday, November 12
3:00 p.m.
South Hall 2635
Readings for talk available here: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065.html
Dr. Patrick Svensson will explore the current landscape of digital humanities, starting out with an overview and discussion of digital humanities and digital humanists. Dr. Svensson draws on three case studies and distinguishes between the paradigmatic modes of engagement of the humanities and information technology: information technology as a tool, an object of study, an exploratory laboratory, an expressive medium, and an activist venue. This paper is partly based on the second in a series of four articles on the digital humanities, and Dr. Svensson will sketch out the goals of the whole project and his work at HUMlab at Umeå University. The first essay in the four-part series is available at the link above.
Patrik Svensson is the director of HUMlab at Umeå University and a docent in the humanities and information technology. His research concerns digital humanities as a field, learning and information technology, cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and new media studies. He currently leads the DH3P project (Digital Humanities as Paradigm, Practice and Projection), YouTube as a Performative Arena and a major initiative to strengthen research in the humanities and information technology at Umeå University. In 2008 he published Language Education in a Digital World: Information Technology, Communication and Learning (Norstedts: 2008, in Swedish).