突发性公共危机中数字人文的作用分析——以2019新冠疫情为例

The Analysis of the Role of Digital Humanities in Sudden Public Crises:Taking COVID-19 as an Example

[目的/意义]有效应对现代社会各种突发性公共危机,需要坚持命运共同体的基本理念,实现协同治理。2019年新冠疫情在全球爆发,以数字人文这一新兴学科为代表的各学科领域积极应对,在应对突发性公共危机中产生积极效益并积累有效经验。[方法/过程]本文以内容研究法为主要研究方法,系统调研数字人文应对该疫情的前沿动向,选取12个国内外针对2019新冠疫情的代表性数字人文项目,以信息空间理论作为理论依据,从编码、抽象、扩散3个维度对其进行分析。[结果/结论]数字人文在应对突发性公共危机中发挥的积极作用主要包括:促使社会各个层面充分认识到公共危机数据的重要性并积极采取行动;推动公共危机信息广泛传播进而实现公众教育;促进各学科领域内新知识的生产和传播。

[Purpose/Significance] To effectively respond to various unexpected public crises in modern society, we need to adhere to the basic concept of a community of shared future and achieve collaborative governance. Since the Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) erupted around the world, various disciplines such as the emerging discipline of digital humanities have actively responded which caused positive impact and gain effective experience.[Method/Process] This article takes the content research method as the main research method, systematically investigates the frontier trends of digital humanities in responding to COVID-19, and selects 12 representative digital humanities projects at home and abroad for analysis. Taking information space theory as the theoretical basis, it analyzes from the three dimensions of coding, abstraction and diffusion. [Results/Conclusions] The results show that the positive role of digital humanities can play in unexpected public crises includes raising awareness of all levels of society of the importance of public crisis data and taking active actions, promoting wider public dissemination of public crisis information to achieve public education, and promoting the production and dissemination of new knowledge in various subject areas.