ABSTRACT
The execution of formal research methods in scholarship is a process which both implies and requires convergence: that is modes of doing based on shared understandings from potentially differing perspectives. Considering research as a process, rather than an amorphous mass of activity behind a scholarly output, makes room for identifying crosscurrents in theories, platforms, infrastructures and media used by academics and practitioners – both in and beyond the humanities. Digital Humanities is a coming together of “the Digital”, a field comprised of its own traditions of new media, science and technology studies, information science and so on; and “the Humanities”, a collective intellectual term with all its problematic epistemological complexity. In the social sciences convergence might mean a synthesis of phenomenon through interactions and negotiations between actors. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
