This highlights both the political and economic desire fordata
More digital data means more information easily accessible which results in more power. Everything is moving towards more of a digital world, everyone is feeling the political and economic pressure but also seeing the downfalls of this.
critical digitalhumanities can develop into an interdisciplinary approach
I love the idea of critical digital humanities interdisciplinary approach! Anything involving critical theory and interdisciplinary approach to humanities is something that is important and makes for good research/good work.
with a commitment to political praxis
What is the politics behind digital hummanities? Would something like the controversy around how politicians use twitter/social media to campaign be considered the politics of it? Or the use of digital tools in any political aspect?
Part of the challenge in this approach is to bring thedigital (software and computation) back into visibility forresearch and critique as both a material and an ideology
I would say, until this class I was pretty digital 'illiterate'. I was unable to do many things besides the basics when it came to the digital world. Learning how to create a website, make a digital timeline and even a digital map has opened my eyes to what is available at our finger tips. I know that I have also barely scratched the surface! Using digital tools to conduct research and gain data is such a skillset to have.
What is the underlying worldview behind traditional maps – who constructs them? Who are they built for?
I know that back in the day, maps were a sign of status and those who had them either owned land or were wanting to conquer land. I also know that maps are essential still to those who travel, explore, the government, military, etc. We would be very lost without maps.
That way, as the project wiki writes, when and if a natural disaster, conflict, or epidemic does occur “local people, NGOs and other responders can start using the maps and the data immediately, saving valuable time and, potentially, lives”
This is an amazing use of OpenStreetMap that I never thought of! Below is an interesting article more specifically on how OpenStreetMap could save lives or help during a disaster.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/how-better-maps-can-save-lives-in-disaster-zones/
Both physical and digital maps can be visualizations of information and a particular view of a space and what’s important.
Physical and digital maps can make a huge difference in a visual learners life. The article below show the importance of visuals for learners, especially in online courses.
Instead of reproducing events or situations through art, perhaps sto-ries are essentially about representing people. My workshop participantsinevitably deem personal content to be part of a story.
One can argue that any piece of literature can tell the reader a little bit about the author. They may have biases and opinions in their books that they also have in real life.
beginning, middle, andend, or through variations like inception through crisis and resolution.
Stories commonly have a beginning, middle and an end or in more complex terms the intro, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion as stated above. But, this is not always the case for every story such as children's books (does not always have a climax). Is this a requirement for a digital story? I am assuming a digital story can be any type of story and there is no need for a specific sequence of events.
They canbe deeply personal or posthumanly otherwise, fiction and nonfiction,brief or epic, wrought from a single medium or sprawling across dozens.
This is the wonderful thing about digital story telling, people can get as creative as they want with it! It really allows a person to show their personality if they want to.
an increase in the sheer availability of data, mediated by the Internet anddigital libraries.
With the availability of the internet and modern technology, distant reading can or has already become much easier to do and more utilized in order to study intellectual historty.
Social scientists can now connect structured socialevidence to loosely structured texts or images or sounds, and they’re discoveringthat this connection opens up fascinating questions.
It will be interesting what the near future brings with how fast technology is advancing.
Spreadsheets contain a few metadata fields: tab names, table names, column names, user comments.
When it comes to something like spreadsheets, this shows you can't have data without metadata or at least are unable to have meaningful, organized data.
data dictionary or system catalog.
When I thought of metadata when it comes to digital formats or technology this is what I thought it would be. I had no idea that is was something as simple as data about data that in easiest definition can be a description about something. I am curious to know what the average person would think metadata is or if they have any understanding of it.
Others can comment on the posts, although some-times this feature is disabled or restricted to individuals approved by aneditor or moderator.
With this being said, could one argue that comments on facebook or instagram posts are also a form of blogging?
The state of things in digital humanities today rests in that creative tension between those who’ve been in the field for a long time and those who are coming to it today
In any field there are going to be debates on how things should or should not be done and whether a new process should be followed or not. I think as we grow as a society and as the digital world expands, we need to be more open to new ideas and new ways of looking at things. As we make progress, so does the digital world.
Those differences often produce significant tension, particularly between those who suggest that digital humanities should always be about making (whether making archives, tools, or new digital methods) and those who argue that it must expand to include interpreting
I agree with this statement. I don't believe that digital humanities has to always be 'making' things and could rather be used to interpret, study, and describe.
a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.
It seems as though there are so many different definitions or expectations of digital humanities and the people that partake in the field.
By contrast, only 3 percent of MLA convention attendees tweeted; according to French’s data, out of about 7,800 attendees at the MLA convention only 256 tweeted. Of these, the vast majority were people already associated with digital humanities through their existing networks of followers
This stat does not surprise me. Of course people interested in the digital humanities conference will use a digital platform to tweet their experience/promote or criticize it.
In the space of a little more than five years, digital humanities had gone from being a term of convenience used by a group of researchers who had already been working together for years to something like a movement
With the digital world growing, things like digital humanities are becoming more popular. I wonder what the statistics are on the growth of digital humanities over the last 5 years.
I also thought it would be an easier sell to the humanities community to have the emphasis on “humanities.
It is easier to sell to the humanities community because it is easier to relate to. It is more of an 'all encompassing' term in my opinion then a specific one.
From attempts to delineate new theories ofcoding as scholarship to forward-looking visions of trends in big data, the volumesketches out some of the directions in which the field is moving
I feel like the digital world is ever growing and the potential for development is endless.
The peer-to-peer review website wound up imparting a sense of communityand collectivity to the project as a whole. It also gave contributors a better senseof the full volume in its prepublished state
Like others have said, would this result in true comments/criticisms being made or would they collectively want a successful outcome?
a time whenmany academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, department closings, andstaffing shortages, the digital humanities experienced a banner year th
I think in more recent years, COVID has been a reason for a boom in digital humanties. I wonder what or if there are any statistics on the impact COVID had on digital humanties.