Digital humanities real paradigm shift or just a buzzword? So my department just hired a "digital humanities specialist" and suddenly everyone's talking about DH like it's the future of historical research. I've been to a couple of the workshops and honestly... I'm not sure what to think. On one hand, some of the text mining stuff is genuinely cool. Being able to analyze thousands of documents for patterns that would take a human lifetime to read through that's legitimately useful. And GIS mapping of historical data has produced some really interesting spatial analyses. But on the other hand, it sometimes feels like people are just slapping a digital veneer on pretty standard research questions? Like congrats you made an interactive map, but what's the actual historiographical intervention here? Curious what people in other humanities fields think. Is DH transforming your discipline or is it mostly hype?