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Digital Humanities (DH) has been depicted as an innovative engine for humanities, as a challenge for Data Science, and as an area where libraries, archives and providers of e-research infrastructures join forces with research pioneers. However DH is defined, one thing is certain: DH is a new community which manifests and identifies itself via the Internet and social media. In this paper we propose to describe DH as a virtual community (VC), and discuss the implications of such an epistemic approach. We start with a (re)inspection of the scholarly discourse about VCs, and the analytic frameworks which have been applied to study them. We discuss the aspects that are highlighted by taking such a stance, and use the guidelines proposed by the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) in our investigation.
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Salah, A.A.A., Scharnhorst, A., Wyatt, S. (2015). Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community. In: Tiropanis, T., Vakali, A., Sartori, L., Burnap, P. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9089. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_6
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