The Digital Humanities web page emerges from a series of deliberations, seminars, course related discussions and individual conversations between people at IIT Gandhinagar and beyond IIT Gandhinagar from 2017-2018. This web page focuses on a broad range of thematic areas within digital studies, highlighting their role largely in the shaping of fresh discourses and analytical methods in Humanities and Social Sciences. This page aspires to serve as a hub for Digital Humanities scholars of South Asia in order to bring diverse perspectives, praxis or scholarly thoughts into one platform. The projects that have been displayed on the Digital Humanities page are symptomatic of the rich critical resources that South Asia can provide for studies or research that directly or indirectly connect people to the digital civilisation. Scholars practising Digital Humanities in India and South Asia have core specialisations in literature, social sciences, critical theories, philosophical studies and other established areas of academic practices. Digital Humanities has served the purpose of enriching disciplines by augmenting both methodological as well as critical insights.
The projects in this website are the intellectual property of the doctoral scholars and postgraduate students, and senior undergraduates who have undertaken these researches as a part of their scholarly and creative quest.
DH@IIT Gandhinagar aspires to go beyond serving as a mere tool for researchers, just helping them integrate some parts of digital resources into their research. It rather aspires to be at the cusp of philosophy, cultural theories, social science methods and literary texts providing an open platform for contemplation and analysis.
The critical juncture of human history that we are living-in at present is a unique intermixture of technocentric and technophobic attributes. While the digital civilisation is no longer under the domain of science fiction, yet Humanities and Social Sciences are still grappling with the changing ambience of scholarly and praxis related attributes due to the massive infiltration of the digital. Researchers in digital studies are trying to make sense of the scenario like the proverbial blind men making sense of the different parts of the elephant. Therefore, this website and its content are designed to create a lasting dialogue on the very idea of Digital Humanities with specific foci on culture, media, literature, society and their crucial intersection with the digital turn in humanity and social sciences.
The individuals who are a part of this dialogue on Digital Humanities come from all walks of life and represent disciplines such as philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, library sciences, literary studies, social sciences and more. The aim of the Digital Humanities website is to provide a free space for theoretical as well as application related deliberations.
We hope that the projects and the resource guides are of use for subsequent explorers of digital studies. By Digital Humanities we are implying perspectives that encompass social media analyses, digitisation of texts, creative hypertextuality, media research, and artistic representations.
