DIGITAL HUMANITIES: A PROBLEMATIC SPHERE AND DEVELOPMENT TENDENCY
The article discusses the main directions in applied methods in Digital Humanities. The author surveys the leading research centers, laboratories and programs of Digital Humanities, which can be described by sketching their structure at several levels. These begin with basic computation (programming, processing, protocols) and extend through the levels of organization and output that form the basis of most users' experience (interface, devices, networks). Techniques of Digital Humanities apply to all types of research and culture associated with cultural practices used Soft Media: computer design, editing, creation of databases (text, library, online encyclopedias, communications in chat, messengers, social networks, etc.), digital sociological, linguistic, historical, ethnographic research.