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At the Digital Studio for Public Humanities, Kyle Moody attempted to define digital humanities in one sentence: "open and accessible research and content creation, distribution, and evaluation by persons able to use or utilize technology." In his definition, all people are included whether they are coders or not, a notable difference from many other digital humanists' definitions. Moody discusses how the digital humanities and technology are helping to blur the line between those accessing and consuming content and those creating content. This active reaction to what is being consumed helps developers to see what is wanted and needed and adjust their content based on public reaction. He left his audience with the open question of whether or not the academy has the responsibility to give the public more control over what scholars produce as well as if the academy should be the benevolent curator of cultural content.

This website called Humanist is an "international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities." The goal of this website is to create a forum where people can log on and discuss any issues with the digital humanities and share thoughts and ideas. Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Mark Sample writes about the inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities, topics ranging from arguments about humanists interpretations of quantitative data to a review of WordSeer. The journal's aim is to catch the good-or finding substantive and valuable digital humanities work "in whatever format, and wherever, it exists." This includes podcasts, blog posts, twitter conversations, slideshows, and any other relevant work, layered with evaluation from the authors.

In this 2011 article, Moya Z. Bailey analyzes the racial and gender makeup of the digital humanities, the navigation of marginalized groups within society, and their interactions with academia. Problems, such as the use of ableist language and the assumption that a few token minorities will eradicate marginalization, are addressed within the article. Bailey also highlights some of the ways in which Digital Humanities are being used to transform the humanities, such as Crunk Feminist Collective communicating with groups that the collective "felt accountable to outside academia."

This brief presentation on the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference on World History gives an example of some of the things the field of History is looking to track and how the field is expecting to change. The conference is requesting papers on the topics of cultural mobility, political movements, and networks utilized for the transmission of ideas. More of interest to digital humanists though is the category of Mapping Movements, with an explicit focus on the new technologies and digital humanist methods being developed that can be utilized to assist this process.

According to the article, DH Answers represents a chance for digital humanists to communicate with fellow digital humanists through a free and community driven Q&A board. Anyone may post and answer freely, and community members are encouraged to tag their posts so as to facilitate the creation of new categories. Questions range from improving the site itself to introducing undergraduate students to the digital humanities. Forums users may also make requests for information, such as "a list of all graduate programs that study DH."

This article seeks to address the problem of digital humanities being code heavy by nature, but being populated a field not traditionally associated with programming. It introduces two tutorials intended to help new people break into the field of programming: Hackety Hack and "The Rubyist Historian." Hackety Hack is a free program containing a series of interactive lessons for learning to code in the Ruby language, and "The Rubyist Historian" is a blog by graduate student Jason Heppler intended to be an "accessible introduction to Ruby."

In this article, Stanley Fish is trying to explain what he believes it means to be in the digital humanities field. There seems to be an undercover snobbery situation when it comes to individuals in the academic world placing a title on themselves. For example, one may prefer to be known as a philosopher rather than a humanist. Not knowing what exactly falls into the term "humanities" is not new.

This publication is a write up for a project done of tools for digital humanities and their importance. Since this discipline heavily relies on technology, newer and more efficient tools are always being invented. An example includes identification tools that help analyze word choice and use.

D.D. Guttenplan of New York Times covers an article about an ancient Egypt virtual environment created by the digital humanists of Harvard University's Berkman Center of Internet and Society.This virtual tour is called "Giza 3D" where a person can see real life places such as the waves by Ancient Egypt's harbor, funeral rites, and even pyramid burial shafts that have not been seen by humans for over 100 years. The entire tour can even be seen in 3D at home with 3D glasses. Guttenplan compares this project to the works of other digital humanists. He brings up another excellent project titled Hypercities Egypt, created at the University of California, which archives tweets from Cairo. Such an archive allows people to see what is posted in real time and track back tweets back to the start of the protests in Tahrir Square.

This video talks to students who have been invited to participate in the only Digital Humanities conference for and by undergraduate researchers. Short segments follow students who discuss the meaning of digital humanities, why there are passionate about the field, and different projects they are involved in. For example, a student expresses the difference in publishing for an audience who will be online and the responsibility of the researcher to approach the project in the best way to present it to a larger audience. Collaboration among researchers in the field is noted to be one of the most important aspects in Digital Humanities.

Hyperstudio is a blog written by Digital Humanist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The latest post on the home page seems to be an invite/ad for the Visual Interpretations Conference that was held over two years ago. The purpose of the conference to provide a venue for experts in art and design to collaborate with digital humanist with the goal of the two become dependent on the other. This visualizations should allow for a different view and possibly promote questions and thoughts that were not previously discussed.

Marche's article criticizes digital humanists for a perceived failure to adequately address the human and interpretive nature of literature by treating it as data. Two core issues identified by Marche is that literature, unlike statistics, is terminally incomplete - that parts frequently are missing or shifting - and that data mining efforts fail to account for context in literature. Marche argues that current data mining efforts are flawed because "algorithms are inherently fascistic" and that "meaning is mushy." Marche does not oppose digitization efforts and in fact welcomes the translation of texts into digital formats, rather Marche argues that literary meaning cannot be as readily quantified as numbers - that "insight remains handmade."

This article highlights the approach and concept of Digital Humanities to a wider audeience. This is a unique summary due to the fact that the there is no clear difinition but a general scope of the direction and trend that this study is heading towards in humanities, The key synapsis as a digital humanist is the reliance on other sources for a framing of the defintion.

This article represents the popularization of the #transformDH movement following ASA 2011. The article highlights the launching of the #transformDH Tumblr, as well as containing a section at the end with a collection of articles written by digital humanists related to the concerns of the #transformDH movement. The remainder of the article discusses the sessions the article writer personally participated in, as well as the people met related to the #transformDH movement.

This short article for the 2012 American Studies Association Annual Meeting represents a call for digital humanists to collaborate and propose ways in which American Studies and Digital Humanities can be transformed to be better address concerns such a marginalization. Provided proof that this is possible, the article highlights such "digital collectives and social movements" such as Crunk Feminist Collective, "shit [people] say" and artists offering a "productive [exploration] of digital productions and methods." The article also highlights in particular the #transformDH movement, and provides links to some of the articles and websites utilized by the group.