Humanist (electronic seminar)
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Humanist is an international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities, in the form of a long-running electronic mailing list and its associated archive. The primary aim of Humanist is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members.
Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
[edit] History and current scope
The Humanist list was created in 1987 by Willard McCarty, then at the University of Toronto, as a Bitnet/NetNorth electronic mail network for people who support computing in the humanities. McCarty, now at King's College London, has continued to edit it since then.
Although Humanist started off as a means of communication for people directly involved in the support of humanities computing, it has grown in scope to become an extended conversation about the nature of "humanities computing" (or "digital humanities", or one of a contested range of other names), about what computing looks like viewed from the humanities, and humanities from computing: "Humanist remains the forum within which the technology, informed by the concerns of humane learning, can be viewed from an interdisciplinary common ground." [1]
There are currently (September 2006) a little under 1,400 subscribers. This seems low for such a long-running list, but high given that Humanist requires subscribers to supply a brief biography when subscribing.
