Situating Digital Humanities, STS, and Memetics in Academic Cultures: Methodological Strains

Dan Steward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

We have some years of data now regarding both the "digital humanities" and the study of "memes" (aka "memetics"). Each of these forays into the study of culture and society emerges from outside of the social sciences, the former from the arts and humanities, and the latter from the natural sciences. But each of them promises to yield data and insight regarding the traditional object domain of fields like sociology and cultural anthropology. This paper explores the methodological discourses of these emerging fields and their connections to older such discourses within the established social sciences, including the field of "science and technology studies" (STS).

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 Presented in Session 63. Social Science History and Science & Technology Studies: A Theoretical Exchange