outreach baked in - research design & digital scholars

EXCERPT from The Digital Humanities as Public Humanities

In Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, Sheila Brennan places the digital humanities in a lineage of public history ("Public, First"). Brennan stresses that making work available online is not the same as practicing "digital public humanities" or "public digital humanities." She advocates for public engagement at the outset: "Doing any type of public digital humanities work requires an intentional decision from the beginning of the project that identifies, invites in, and addresses audience needs in the design, as well as the approach and content, long before the outreach for a finished project begins."

If digital humanists are serious about promoting access and inclusion, it's not enough to make projects accessible. We have to ask, accessible to whom? And to what end?

Full source article, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/01/29/literary-scholars-should-use-digital-humanities-reach-oft-ignored-public-opinion

Literary scholars should use digital humanities to reach the oft-ignored 'public' (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed www.insidehighered.com Literary scholars should follow the example of historians and create digital work to reach people colleges and universities have ignored, Will Fenton writes.