Gary Hall, Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me: Open Science and its Discontents

Gary Hall's introduction to a collection of essays, edited by him. "In particular, Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me suggests that the turn in the humanities toward datadriven scholarship, science visualization, statistical data analysis, etc. can be placed alongside all those discourses that are being put forward at the moment - in both the academy and society - in the name of greater openness, transparency, efficiency and accountability. Open Access The open access movement is a case in point....Yet after decades when humanities scholarship made active use of a variety of critical theories...it seems somewhat surprising that many advocates of this current turn to data-intensive scholarship in the humanities find it difficult to understand computing and the digital as much more than tools, techniques and resources. As a result, much of the scholarship that is currently occurring under the ‘digital humanities’ agenda is uncritical, naive and at times even banal...."