On 'hacking' ethos, hackathons and digital scholarship

Abstract

Have you ever experienced, after a concert, a movie or an event, to become somehow obsessed with the person or the topic? This happened to me last month, after joining the ‘Hack the Book’ event, which I will describe later on. So, what does 'hacking' actually mean for a Digital Humanities practitioner? - that was the question. As Ben Yagoda reminds us in his short history of hack, the verb ‘hack’ first appeared in English around 1200 AD. Then, it meant to “cut with heavy blows in an irregular..