Abstract: One view, digital humanities as technological method, has been accepted generally. Its nature is instrumental understanding. Although Literary field has reflected this view and put forward that digital humanities is a kind of research paradigm. It is so weak and limited by instrumental understanding. In order to strengthen the reflection, we must focus on instrumental understanding and point out the dimension covered. The meaning of digital humanities is not only to open the non-text field on humanities research, but also to make possible to discover the non-human experience, digital objects.

Key words: digital humanities, human nature, non-human experience