I believe with technology changing everyday that digital humanities will be able to encompass more in the delivery of information. But I also believe as the shift comes there will be new issues and a never ending stream of what could be approved upon. I think everything has limitations and part of the digital component is the lack of an actual teacher to answer your questions in that moment. There will always be draw backs to everything but I feel like utilizing what we have and making it the best we can is all that others can expect from us. Just because something is not perfect does not make it uninformative.

Viewing a piece such as a timeline or twine is different than having someone who has done the work walk you through it. I feel that if I were to do my timeline and explain certain points that just did not make it my viewers would gain more. I feel like just finding something like twine does not necessarily give you the full picture.

I feel like there will never be an end to learning what fully encompasses digital humanities. Technology is ever changing and growing, it seems that everyone has the opportunity to use technology to make a difference in whatever field interests them. I feel that just like any weapon technology has the ability to be used for good or bad. Propaganda has the ability to foster hatred and can alternatively decide the good side or the bad. How people feel about a society as a whole can be affected with a single click of a mouse. But on the other hand we can give support to those in need in those countries suffering. Digital Humanities is another outlet for good or evil it is essentially up to the individual behind the screen to determine the outcome. There are millions of views of millions of topics, and who knows which side is accurate.

Digital Humanities objective, is to foster and support creative, and diverse research projects.Software and coding can be used in a variety of ways to illustrate concepts and tell stories. The emphasis is not just on the content, but also on how to present it effectively to our viewing public and come up with more effective means of communicating these theories. 

I feel like spiral timelines would be quite difficult to read and rather hard to follow. The timelines that are linear and circular are much easier to understand and follow. All timeline designs, tasks  that depend on long-term memory performance are slower and less accurate, and I would think that since the spiral timeline is harder to read it would be harder to learn and memorize with spiral timelines.

A timeline is a demonstration of an event's chronologically along a drawn timeline that helps viewers rapidly comprehend temporal relationships. Timelines are very easy to read and quite simple. The prevalence of timelines, which is very high, is another factor contributing to the simplicity. Simple static visualisations are important in communication because almost everyone interacts with timelines on a daily basis. Whether it be a plan of your day, or learning about history.

I have never thought of having a circle or different form other than a line for a timeline. It intrigued me so I did some research to see if I could find any circle timelines that I would find interesting. Here are a few that I found interesting https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/full-year-circular-timeline-template-vector-25811470 https://slidemodel.com/templates/4-simple-circles-diagram-timeline-template/

I had not really given this much thought. I usually just listed events in a timeline in the order they occurred, but now I can see how much more significant timelines can be if they have a purpose. Tell a story of what happened rather than just listing facts.The fact that timelines provide context is one of the factors that makes them such an effective learning tool. They specifically provide students with a visual timeline of historical events. So adding images and other components may be crucial in the learning outcome.

It is frightening that something untrue has the ability to ruins someones work within minutes. The internet has the ability to give some many opportunities, but one never really knows who is on the other side of the screen waiting to tear down what you have worked for.

Literary texts can be made more intense by using technology, for example, by converting them into literal hypertexts and presenting different notes information, unanswered questions, main ideas and relationships .

A comprehensive review of children with learning disabilities in written expression has revealed several factors that may aggravate the insufficient information in their compositions. Digital story telling has the ability to address those components and aid those with different needs.

Digital stories have the ability to capture the attention of many viewers. Digital stories can be a great outlet for those who have short attention spans and have a difficulty with reading because they are unable to create a visual image.

It is so fascinating to be able to input lyrics of different rappers and find similarities in their work through the use of a single or multiple words. I have never thought of how many ways Voyant Tool can be useful until reading this article it makes it clear why it is utilized.

It is crazy that I have been researching information for papers, and homework, and I have never once thought about how it comes about to give me the information on my screen. Typing in the right words can lead you to discovering the answers you were looking for with just the click of your mouse. It is amazing how far one can go to discover information with the use of a couple of words.

Does preoccupation with statistical data cause literary researchers to lose sight of the goal of their work, which is to illuminate the enjoyment of poetry, plays, and novels?

From an industrial revolution to the present which is concerned with information transformation.The debate of digital technology and social change is part of the larger body of innovation theory literature. Digital living enhances many aspects of a person s job, leisure, and home lives. There are wide positive improvements as the internet transformed everything, from the most pressing intellectual and emotional experiences to some of the most mundane and ordinary parts of life. But when we view something on a screen are we missing something? Does it lose validity in being digital?

Because seeing a play is such a fleeting event, writing a play review may be a thrilling, though tough, effort. You must be both a spectator watching and appreciating the performance as well as a critical analyst of the production itself. You must be able to offer a quick overview of the play, as well as a close objective analysis of the performance you attended, as well as an interpretation and review of the full ensemble of staging, acting, directing, and so on. Couldn't the same be said about a file that is rendered on a computer screen, it has the ability to disappear at any point, so should we not read it carefully and think of why this specific work was digitized. What does this work really look like in its original form? How was this artifact written?

I never thought of this, we may receive an email and actually never read it or fully see the full email. So if someone were looking at our life and they were using our email as a source wouldn't their information be unsubstantiated? Is the person telling our story fully getting the information they need or are they being led down a different path away from the life we really led? However, I guess the same could be said about a letter, just because it is opened and a part of our possessions does not mean that we read it.

I feel that email has the ability to be impersonal, and the time spent reading an email cannot be equivocated to reading a letter. I think that we take more notice to a letter because someone took the time to write and mail this information.

Through online collections, historians now have access to an ever-expanding richness of digitized versions, of a selection of original materials. At the same time, an unprecedented amount of born-digital material is being generated and gathered. Digital archives offer a somewhat different perspective on the nature of the idea of an archive. So my question is what happens to history when the sources and evidence it relies on become increasingly digital?

From my understanding, metadata in archival terms includes not only representations of information, but also descriptions and traces of the many settings of records and other archive resources.With so much data produced in the web how can one keep up and organize all that data?

I never knew that the link of the website was considered metadata I am curious to know what is the coding behind the website considered as? I would assume it would be metadata.

When I look through my photos and videos I realized that my iphone actually had all the metadata stored about my photo. I was able to find out when I took it, the location I took it, and more information. It is insane to look back at my photos seeing where I've been and what I discovered in those p

This reminds me utilizing card catalogues from libraries. Each card featured basic information about the book, including where it might be found in the library and its primary subjects. The cards were grouped by author, title, and subject to make it easier for library patrons to discover materials. 

It is more intriguing to me that Digital humanities is ever changing, it continues to educate individuals through progress of technology and knowledge. It seems a superior course due in part to the fact that one is never fully done educating oneself or learning technical skills. It is also up to the individual to determine what they gain from the particular form of digital humanities.

It is interesting to see every generation confronting the same challenge: identifying with the past, while adapting and functioning in the present and developing ideas of a future. However the questions and difficulties that humanity faces remain unchanging. Our society can only mature if we strive to understand and meet ever-increasing needs in appropriate ways based on our knowledge and understand in both practical and conceptual terms; yet, the path towards the future cannot be a one-way view point. I guess that is where digital humanities play a vital role, there are numerous view points of how history has shaped society and what we as a community can strive to learn from past mistakes so we are creating a better future.

It is interesting to see that digital humanities is somewhat a art form, in the sense that it is up to the artist/author to depict their interpretation of a work in their formatting. Does this mean that the work is less understandable by the masses? For example contemporary art can be viewed in many ways, what makes Digital Humanities any different then an abstract form of art. Digital Humanities is such a broad spectrum of tools and practices that combine computer science and humanities together but does that make it more accessible to the masses or more confusing and intricate?

It is intresting to see a question posed by anyone in a specific field and watch those around try and answer a simple question. One simple question such as "what is digital humanities?" turns into an in depth conversation on what digital humanities is to a singular person. Since there are difference of opinions in so many fields are we really able to define any subject? I believe there is a clear and concise definition and understanding of everything, but I do differ in my interpretation of subjects, does what you interpret a subject to be and the definition always vary? Yes, of course there is a definition that explains what something is but when it comes to digital humanities do you think this definition will change with time and technology?

Reading this I am reminded of the following TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_laws_that_choke_creativity#t-2177. In Lessing's argument for renewing our creative culture, he references John Philip Sousa, intriguing copyrights, and "ASCAP" cartel. The reason I am drawn back to this TED talk in this particular passage, is due in par to Lawrence Lessig sees the allure of digital technology, the concept of global opportunity, and the need for change and balance in order to tear down boundaries and improve society.

It is fascinating to see individual views throughout digital platforms; whether those views are accurate to your personal beliefs or not. There is a large platform that agrees with your views or disagrees with your views. It has made it easier for people to speak up about their beliefs. Digital humanities has given students a more diversified form of information, rather then simply viewing one form of information from a single textbook. It has given students the ability to understand different points of view which is quite remarkable.