What is "Digital Humanities"?

Digital Humanities is the study of human behavior and interaction through the increasingly expanding advancement of technology. At their core, humanities study human culture, and as our culture is ever-evolving with technology, new, more specific disciplines are required. Social media, for example, is studied to better understand what people use social media for and how they use it. The way people interact through an anonymous and/or physically detached medium may allow for a different form of communication with different standards for interaction, such as the online messaging board 4chan. Digital Humanities also studies various art forms made through technology, such as self-generated poems made using human input into some kind of algorithm.

Things like video games are studied as a way of expanding and evolving story-telling and entertainment. When video games are made more social, such as through multiplayer games, Digital Humanities also studies that form of interaction. Edited videos and mixed music, such as this song composed entirely digitally, that take man-made instruments and experiences and mix them together in a form impossible without technology are a prime example of the things Digital Humanities grapples with. As technology advances, such as with augmented reality systems, Digital Humanities also covers the studying of that newfound form of interaction.