Uloga digitalne humanistike u transformaciji društvenih i humanističkih nauka / The Role of Digital Humanities in the Transformation of Social Sciences and Humanities

Digital humanities is an interdisciplinary academic field that connects digital tools with research in the humanities and social sciences, combining traditional humanistic methodologies with contemporary technologies. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview and analysis of current topics in digital humanities, with a particular focus on the method of distant reading. The analysis is based on works indexed in the Web of Science databases, specifically within the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The corpus consists of 28 scholarly articles. The results of the analysis show that the papers can be grouped into two thematic categories: the first includes studies that engage in critical reflection on digital humanities as a field, while the second comprises works that focus on the practical application of digital humanities methods in various academic disciplines. The most represented works are from the field of literary studies. Special attention is given to encouraging the academic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina to consider integrating digital humanities approaches into their own research practices. As an illustration of the possibilities offered by digital tools, the paper includes a case study using the Voyant tool.