"Only 15 years have passed since the first digital libraries were deployed, only 20 or 30 since e-mail became available for us. But it is a matter of facts: there is a significant, growing corpus of digital content available for scholarly research in Humanities, and this is going to change the conditions of our intellectual lives. Our research team at Complutense University, Leethi Group (European Literatures from Text to Hypermedia) have analyzed the transformations in e-reading and e-writing practices from 12 years ago, mainly in the literary domain, but also in a huger domain called "Digital Humanities".
After participating in numerous meetings, workshops and European Projects, Leethi Group can offer a critical overview on DH: taking some premises of the Postcolonial Studies as starting points, we propose to denounce the technical and commercial strategies developed by powerful consortia of companies and states coming from an anglophone and northern axis.
Our aim is to point out that another kind of innovation in possible, based on users and social priorities, for Digital Humanities too." Amelia Sainz Cabrerizo (UCM)
Medialab-Matadero Madrid