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Poster presented with Frederike Neuber at the DiXiT Convention 2 in Cologne.Program | Abstract(poster behind the cut)Poster Slam (1 Minute)Digital Humanities might be a seaThat carries us over its waves to beThe tissue connecting two worlds or moreBy heading for islands and going ashore.The islands are disciplines in this caseAnd one of them used to be our baseBut the farther we get, the more we are lostRaising the question: what is the costOf going where no one has gone before?(Or maybe they did and were shown the door.)For some of the old-established we’re freaks,Serviceable only as technical geeks,While others lament our lack of expertiseWhen it comes to computers or scholarly needs.So do we trade or negotiate, assimilate or acerbate,Colonize or recognize that journeys are themselves the prize?To discuss this further, if you find that you care,Come to our poster, we’ll be there.&#160;→ full poster (PDF)Inspiration:Willard McCarty, ‘Tree, Turf, Centre, Archipelago – or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing’, in Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader, ed. Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2013), pp. 97-118 [originally in Literary and Linguistic Computing 21/1 (2006), pp. 1-13].Image Sources:Featured image taken from unsplash.com (Annie Spratt).Citation Recommendation:[cite](the automatically generated citation does not account for the collaboration with Frederike Neuber; please make sure to cite us both)