MEGATRENDS AND MEDIA

TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEDIA GARDEN
It follows that DH maintains methodological relations with plurality
of humanities or social sciences. Historically, the most important is
the intersection of DH with linguistics, literary studies, history, library
studies, archeology, pedagogy and art history, subsequently have joined
other disciplines. What about media studies and DH?
3.1 DH and MS – state of the research
On the basis of the investigation we can in advance conclude that the
connection between MS and DH has no systematic and profound nature
yet. The same argument formulated Patrik Svensson in his inluential
article on the ield of DH:
„Neither critical cyberculture studies, nor internet studies, nor initiatives
such as new media studies and critical digital studies, which all come from
cultural studies or art theory backgrounds, typically make frequent use of
the term digital humanities. There is obviously a link between these ields
and digital humanities as humanities computing, or digital humanities
with a library and information science focus, but the connection is not
necessarily simple or straightforward. In addition, the territories of all
these „ields“ are currently being negotiated and explored.“ 6
Miriam Posner, coordinator of DH program at the University of California
said in her introduction to a workshop on MS and DH at the Society for
Cinema and Media Studies: „...media studies remains largely absent from
the array of disciplines that have staked a claim on digital humanities.
I say this with two important caveats: irst, that, as witnessed by
today’s workshop participants, some media scholars are doing digital
humanities; and, second, work that we might be happy to claim as digital
humanities goes on under different names.“ 7
Quarterly, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 137. [online]. [2015-03-25]. Available at:
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6 SVENSSON, P.: The Landscape of Digital Humanities. In Digital Humanities
Quarterly, 2010, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 42. [online]. [2015-03-25]. Available at:
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7 POSNER, M.: Digital humanities and media studies: staging an encounter.
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