Journal | magazén
Monographic journal issue | 1 | 2 | 2020
Research Article | Citizen Humanities as a Fusion of Digital and Public Humanities?
Citizen Humanities as a Fusion of Digital and Public Humanities?
Abstract
Digital and public humanities have gained a foothold in academia, but very little is known about citizen humanities, which is referring to the engagement of the general public in scholarly research. Although the term is new, public participation in the humanities, either as the citizens’ contribution of intellectual effort or knowledge to academic research, or as the contribution of resources and tools, looks back on a long tradition. The citizen humanities range from the creation of dictionaries, the transcription and annotation of historical records to the decoding of ancient Egyptian papyri. While the digital humanities provide the citizen humanities with data, tools and techniques, the public humanities offer the means of engaging diverse publics in research activities. After embedding the citizen humanities theoretically in the responsible research and innovation paradigm, this paper will illustrate how digitisation and public involvement laid the foundations for today’s citizen humanities. With a focus on the fusion of digital and public humanities in citizen humanities, this paper will demonstrate the mutual influence on practices (of research). This influence is not only reflected in the approaches to research, analysis, communication, and dissemination but also in the citizen humanities’ novel ways of knowledge co-production.
Submitted: July 17, 2020 | Accepted: Oct. 27, 2020 | Published Dec. 22, 2020 | Language: en
Keywords Public engagement • Responsible research and innovation • Participatory research • Public participation in research • Citizen science • Crowdsourcing • Third mission
Subtags Afterlife Textual data Communication Communities Processing Society Documents Participation Analysis Image data Institutions Works of Art
Copyright © 2020 Barbara Heinisch. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2020/02/001
