Comments on: Looking Backwards https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/08/looking-backwards/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Ryan Shaw https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/08/looking-backwards/comment-page-1/#comment-7371 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:38:45 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1333#comment-7371 I think this is precisely the kind of thing the “digital humanities” needs to be focusing on: how a humanist understanding of culture and discourse can help inform the design of systems and tools and processes for managing information. Instead the focus seems to be almost entirely on how humanists can adopt new technologies, or finally turn themselves into scientists, or something.

Please blog more on this topic!

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