Digital Humanities

Brainstorming keywords

Example Google Scholar searches:

  • "ted lasso" "digital humanities" - 0 relevant results
  • "ted lasso" - 492 results examining the show through the lens of politics of ethical manhood, heteroformalism, meritocracies, sociolinguistics, etc. Useful examples of how scholars deconstruct popular media?
  • "digital humanities" television - 55,000 results, possibly offering DH methods for analyzing tv series that you could apply to this show
  • browsing instead of searching: The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities on the first tab of this guide might have articles that use words you hadn't thought of but are relevant to your project

Combining keywords

Search tip Examples
quotation marks keep a multi-word phrase together

"digital humanities"

"close reading"
asterisk allows the database to bring back variants on a root

cultur* (brings results including culture, cultural, etc)

child* (brings results including children, childhood, etc)
AND tells a database the different concepts you want to make sure each result includes

archives AND women

"children's literature" AND (digitized OR digitalised OR ebooks)
OR gives the database options for synonyms or related words

slave OR enslaved

digitized or digitalised
NOT (or a minus sign in Google Scholar) removes results containing irrelevant keywords  

 

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