Documents, Mediality and Narration. What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Scholarship.

Abstract

Digital scholarship consists of both research and publishing methodologies and practices based on the digital paradigm. It has, therefore, a strategic role in the scholarly landscape since it is a meeting place between humanities and hard sciences. Starting from the etymology of scholarship – and the dynamic relationship between the different meanings conveyed – this article focuses on the relationship between digital humanities and digital scholarship. An important aspect of this relationship is the implication by electronic publishing of a pluralistic view of text: these different meanings are a bridge between contiguous but more than often non-communicating disciplines, such as humanities and media studies. The concluding reflections focus on the constituent elements of digital scholarship and their possible combinations and on the relationship between textual and visual language and their use in scholarly communication.