ABSTRACT
Radio, film, video games, and other audiovisual media that make up the primary objects of analysis for media studies were simply beyond the capacity of the early digital technology accessible to most humanities scholars. Situating the digital humanities (DH) in its social and historical context, then, allows us to visualize the intellectual tracks that consider how and where DH diverges from media studies, though it gestures also to the present and future commonalities of the disciplines. More scholars have embraced DH as a melding of or toggling between these modes, though this divergent impulse noted by Fitzpatrick continues to shape much of the critical discourse surrounding the discipline. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein identify scale and scope as the most pressing topics for DH researchers now, especially the growth of the field itself, the way in which that growth is assessed and measured, and the stakes of digital scholarly research.
