Romantic Circles as Online Community
Lisa Spiro of the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog recently cited Romantic Circles as an exemplary “online community” for its long-standing devotion to diverse scholarly pursuits in a digital environment. Her post addresses the relative dearth of collaborative work in the humanities as compared to the sciences but also points to the digital humanities as a rich source of collaborative work, of which Romantic Circles is just one example. Spiro’s post is extensive and collects concrete examples of collaborative digital humanities projects–from crowdsourcing to content aggregation to gaming.
