"Humanistic Informatics" is one of several names chosen for the study of the relationship between human culture and technology. The term is fairly common in Europe, but is little known in the English-speaking world, though [[Digital Humanities]] is in many cases roughly equivalent.
Humanistic Informaticsinformatics departments were generally started in the nineties when universities rarely taught humanities-based approaches to the rapidly developing computerised society. For this reason, the field was quite broadly defined, and included courses in [[humanities computing]], basic introductions to how computers work, historical developments of technology, technology and learning, digital art and literature and digital culture. Today several departments have declared more specialised areas of research, such as digital arts and culture at the University of Bergen, and socio-cultural communication with and without technology at the University of Aalborg.
==Departments of humanistic informatics at universities==
