What is your research question?
Try having a question, rather than a topic, guide your research!
Still fuzzy on your research question?
- Browse the resources on the Key Readings in DH tab
- Look through the episodes of the podcast New Work in Digital Humanities for inspiration
- Or start with a tool (Google Ngram?) or data set (database of literary prize winners?), and think about what questions it can help explore
Next, consider: What information do you need to address your research question? What kinds of sources do you need?
Do you need...
- sources that are theorizing the digital humanities?
- sources that are discussing the particular problem in the field of digital humanities that interests you (e.g., design, labor, gender, race)?
- sources that discuss the tools you might be using?
- sources that address particular parts of your research question?
- tools that can help you run the analysis you want?
- a data set you can analyze?
- etc.
Now you're ready to start looking.
First, open this: My Research Plan
