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Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon

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Understanding Digital Humanities

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In November 2009 I was approached by the conference organising committee for the Digital Humanities Conference 2010, to be held in July at King’s College London. In a deviation from previous conferences, the committee had decided that, for the first time, instead of getting someone external to the community to talk about semi-related research areas, they would ask an early career scholar from well within the discipline to present the closing plenary. Would I consider giving the speech?

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Terras, M. (2012). Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon. In: Berry, D.M. (eds) Understanding Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371934_10

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