There is now sufficient interest, teaching and research in "digital humanities" for there to be a "stocktake", particularly to clarify the scope and nature of this field. This book tackles definitions, in the process raising questions of self-identification with the digital humanities scholarly community, internationalisation of that community, inclusion and exclusion, and the relationship between the traditional and digital humanities. There are also glimpses of pragmatism about presenting this new discipline to established institutions, university managements and funding agencies. The Introduction also notes a tension between aiming for an accepted definition and allowing practitioners freedom to continue the process of "self-definition", to avoid "fossilising an emerging field and constraining new, boundary-pushing work".
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