*Looks like they've got the lawyers, guns, and money.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/pannapacker-at-mla-digital-humanities-triumphant/30915
"Last year when I blogged about the MLA, I said that the digital humanities seems like the “next big thing,” and, quite naturally, the digital humanists were indignant because they’ve been doing their thing for more than 20 years (and maybe even longer than that).
"At a standing-room only session I attended yesterday, “The History and Future of the Digital Humanities,” one panelist noted that there has been some defensiveness about the field, partly because it has included so many alt-academics who felt disrespected by the traditional academy: “Harrumph … Playing with electronic toys is not scholarship. Where are your peer-reviewed articles?”
"I know from experience that there are plenty of people in the profession who know little about this established field and even regard it with disdain as something disturbingly outré and dangerous to the mission of the humanities. During the discussion at that session, Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT, 2009), which won the MLA’s First Book Award last year, (((and it's a pretty good book, too))) observed that “If you don’t know what the digital humanities is, you haven’t looked very hard.” ...
