Digitized and Digitalized Humanities: Words and Identity

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English. This paper analyses two closely related but different concepts, digitization and digitalization, first discussed in an encyclopedia article by Brennen and Kreiss in 2016. Digital Humanities mainly uses the first term, whereas business and economics tend to use the second to praise the process of the digitalization of society. But digitalization was coined as a critical concept in 1971 by Wachal and is sometimes used in post-colonial studies. Consequently, humanist scholars are invited to avoid the "path of least resistance" when using digitalization, and to explore its critical potential. The paper concludes by considering the effect of the digitalization perspective and by expressing author's point of view on the issue. Italiano. Questo articolo analizza due concetti correlati ma differenti fra loro, "digitization" e "digitalization", discussi la prima volta in una voce di enciclopedia da Brennen e Kreiss nel 2016. Nelle scienze umane digitali si utilizza sostanzialmente il primo termine, mentre in economia si tende a utilizzare il secondo per sottolineare il processo di digitalizzazione della società. Ma il termine "digitalization" era stato creato nel 1971 da Wachal come un concetto critico, ed era stato utilizzato in alcuni studi sul post-colonialismo. Di conseguenza, gli studiosi nelle scienze umane sono invitati a evitare di utilizzare "digitalization" in modo triviale, e ad esplorare il suo potenziale critico. L'articolo termina con alcune considerazioni sugli effetti della prospettiva della digitalizzazione, presentando il punto di vista dell'autore.

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