At the turn of the 21st century, literary critics like Johanna Drucker (2002), JeromeMcGann (2001) or even digital poet Loss Pequeño Glazier (2002) wrote about theimportance of “making things” as a way of doing theoretical work
The foundation of digital humanities seems to be around theoretical work in that it's not necessarily real life, but based on theory and ideas.
While there is an increasingnumber of publications engaging with the digital turn inliterary practice, probably thanks to the normalization of the use of digital tools beingapplied to the study of literary texts within worldwide academia, authors like Alan Liu,Domenico Fiormonte, Tara McPherson, Isabel Galina, Élika Ortega or KatherineFitzpatrick, among an increasing number of others, have expressed their concern aboutDH’s concentration on building and making digital tools to study cultural productionwithout reflecting on the cultural aspects that building these tools entails in itself
From my understanding, academia is thoroughly interested in the understanding of DH its progressiveness. Although their are concerns, in terms of cultural aspects, there are processes that can support that ingoing collaboration and work that can work alongside the DH work.
Humanities, in part because participating in “hands-on” projects is not somethinghumanists usually do
Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good. – American Humanist Association
Humanists is based on a combination of theory and beliefs and paves the way to live through life to be better a better person.
Reference: https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/definition-of-humanism/
Story Maps can provide a voice for groups that have been under-represented in our history books, and help bring their rich cultural heritage to life.
Metis, one of the three indigenous groups in Canada could really benefit from a Story Map of some kind. Many Metis originated from the Red River Settlement, but ended up migrating into areas of Northern, BC and across the homeland. Would be interesting to see the Storymap behind the migration and where folks ended up.
A less scholarly but perhaps more addictive Story Map was created by novelist Susan Straight, who compiled a list of 737 Novels about the American Experience. Obviously an avid reader, Susan locates each novel’s setting, shows us each book’s dust jacket, and provides eloquent, single-sentence tributes for each volume.
The story at this URL has been retired, or the URL is incorrect. :(
How does that apply to us?
Some suggestions in how it applies to us could be the use of medical records to look at the intergenerational differences of how society has changed over time.
Digital Humanities is…
I like to explanation that digital humanities is the use of tools and technologies to answer traditional humanities questions such as who are we? It involves the emergence of new technologies and how they influence us, and society. How it sets us up to the future. Reference: asnhttps://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=digital+humanities&mid=70B1D0AC6F03CD72D45370B1D0AC6F03CD72D453&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
the facts of chronology had significant implications outside of theacademic study of history.
Understanding Chronology is complex. I think Chronology has been used for many purposes, including dating important periods of history. This, in turn, all creates who and what we are today. By going through chronology, we understand the important dates in time dating back to many many centuries.
Historians will probablyappreciate this aspect of the book fairly easily. We all use simple line diagramsin our classrooms—what we usually call “timelines”—to great effec
I giggled reading this statement as this was probably one of the first diagrams I learned in early years. the "timeline". Timelines are a great visual and graphic representation because you can simplify them or change them to however you like.
graphic representation is among our mostimportant tools for organizing information.¹ Yet, little has been written abouthistorical charts and diagrams.
I would definitely say it's one of the most important tools for organizing information, today. I think there has been a ton of advancement in technology to get to this point so why has little been written about historical charts and diagrams? I wonder what tools can be used to create historical documents relating back to the development of graphic reprentation.
hyperlinks, inviting players to step into the shoes of a person suffering from clinical depression
I wonder how someone who does suffer with clinical depression would feel with this game?
Virtual worlds are digital environments that emphasizetheir nonstructured nature.
These are great for all kinds of activities, such as movement, mindfulness, and relaxation. Only thing about Virtual is that children under a certain age shouldn't use them.
A set of computer game genres have stabilized over the past decade,meaning players can expect certain things from such games. A 2008 PewInternet and American Life study of teen gameplay offers a good catalog,including racing, puzzle, sports, action, rhythm, strategy, fighting, simu-lation, first-person shooter, role-playing, and horror
Interesting when "gaming" became a thing and some games were "popular" They quickly were replaced by new up and coming games. Now, those previously popular games are making a comeback!
This platform-determined gaming in depth can be seen in the way somecritics write about gaming in general, as they tend to remain focused onone hardware/software combination. It also points to gaming’s diversity,which is wider than it often seems, given the sheer amount of time it takesto survey.
Gaming has moved from the historical "console" of Xbox or PlayStation. Now many people consider gaming on any device, really. Some examples include Xbox, computer, phone, or Switch can be removed from the console and act as a remote controller.
A single year in internet time can be like a decade in ordinary history—soa decade of internet history implies a large catalogue of events.
Modern advancement related to technologies, has moved quite quickly. Just to think of platforms such as AI, and the information needed to gather in order to make this exist.<br /> I don't doubt there is a large history of events documents, but as things evolve, so will technologies at a quicker rate.
“distant reading.” It’s vivid, it doesn’t overemphasize technology,and it candidly admits that new methods are mainly useful at larger scales of anal-ysis
Distant reading is starting to make a lot more sense to me. Although, I feel to some extent the objective is to be able to read more without actually reading the context. Probably for some it means working smarter not harder. I wonder if this could potentially miss important pieces to the reading.
We could then use a Topic Modeling Tool to perform a statistical analysis that scans a set of documents to detect linguistic patterns and then to cluster the words or “topics” together as groups.
This is really interesting! Honestly, as a student I wasn't aware of this software prior to last semester. I feel as though I was living under a rock. A student was caught plagiarizing on their exam and their answers were clearly pulled from using this tool.
Distant reading basically means figuring out what a text document (or collection of texts) is about without having to read it in its entirety. This is the same text-processing and classification Google uses when we recall words or phrases online – such as looking for the recipes, instructions, song lyrics, movie reviews, and directions.
or very similar to ChatGPT, something we used for this weeks' exercise.
“distant reading”
At first I thought Distant Reading included the concept of almost reading between the lines or having a view from afar, like reading something and having a complety different understanding. I'm interested to know how to better understand how to analyze larger amounts of data pulled from distant reading.
the word “Indians” nearly fell out of all addresses after Teddy Roosevelt
I was curious as to why the word "Indians" was nearly removed from vocabulary. To find out, it was very similar to assimilation efforts completed in Canada. Teddy Roosevelt took land away from rightful owners and wanted American Natives to be otherwise known as "white man"
Summary
The fact Metadata can be used in many different platforms such as email, word document, paper files is great. The concept is fairly straightforward after viewing the way Metadata is collected. Of course, it'll look different with each platform.
What is Metadata (with examples)
I find myself a visual learner and seeing what Metadata is through this article made it a lot easier to understand. When i was reading through this week's objectives, i was concerned with the concept because i had never heard of it.
Denise Challenger (Harriet Tubman Institute): “Playin’ Mas, Play and Mas: A pedagogical Journey of children and caribana, 1970-1974”
This is a great idea for our project! I love the idea of a digital book.
Global + Digital
As an example, Telehealth is a platform that connects the unattached patient to a healthcare provider. In the North, we have the Northern Virtual Clinic that's run by Northern Health.
Global Digital Projects
There are so many benefits to global digital projects! The more I read up on this area of work, the more I realize how important this concept is. For example, when I think about research, although research does often include individual, local or regional studies, it also includes global studies. There are many barriers, such as financial implications that could get in the way. If research can transition to a digital approach, that could eliminate some of those barriers. That being said, there are some cultures that require an in-person approach based off past traumas and cultural protocols that should be respected. there is also something to say about in-person communication when connecting in with different peoples.
Apartheid Heritage
The fact that digital books are becoming more norm, is fascinating. It offers real-time analogue without having to actually be in the space! I have not heard of the Apartheid Heritage until now.
humanistic research that involves computation in some way, shape or form, either as a product using mostly the Web or, I guess, apps as a way of publishing and sharing humanistic content and research. Then increasingly, and particularly for Digital History, I’d say, and literary studies, using computation as an aid to doing research, to grapple with big data sets.
I would also have to say that DH has to involve research in some way. As we continue to evolve in field of DH, we're learning but also experimenting with previous projects that have been completed or already in-progress.