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  • What Does “Born Digital” Mean?

  • Elias Muhanna
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 January 2018, pp. 110-112
    Print publication:
    February 2018

  • When asked for a definition of the digital humanities, I often fall back on a crisp formula. Digital humanists use computation to generate, organize, publish, or interpret humanistic data. This covers most of the bases, but it's also a bit abstract. “What sort of computation?” a colleague sometimes asks. “I use a computer at work; why aren't I a digital humanist?” To this, I agree; there isn't much daylight between digital and analogue scholarship. Less interesting than what separates the two domains is the question of what unites them. In my view, the most significant shared ingredient is technology.