Archive for September, 2016
9/26/2016
Taking my own stab at defining different roles of scholarship and production in the Digital Humanities, I would loosely define three categories; builder, collaborator, and scholar. These are arranged in order from the most tightly married with digital mediums and tools and the process of creating those very things, to the scholar, which I […]
DH Spectrum
After reading the essays of digital humanities from different scholars all ranging in their field, I have come to the conclusion that DH is all over the place. There are some who argue that maybe just putting scholarly text online for the world to see and comment is digital humanities, while the ever loving Ramsay […]
Response to Mullen
In Lincoln Mullen’s essay, “Digital Humanities is a Spectrum, or ‘We’re All Digital Humanists Now’”, he makes the argument that the digital humanities is a spectrum, or in other words, a tool used to classify things. In all of the examples of traditional scholars doing traditional things, Mullen makes the comparison that though we have […]
Digital Humanities on a Spectrum
Although I believe that Mullen’s argument in “We’re All Digital Humanists Now” is a little weak and needs more support and refinement, I get her point of view, and I can imagine the digital humanities being on a “spectrum”, where the most professional humanists are on one side, while the least professional humanists are on the other side, To […]
Stuck in Middle with You
The Far Left These humanists would be those most resistant to change but who have none-the-less found themselves somewhat swept along by it. They use computers to check student emails; they reluctantly post a few items to education learning sights (like BlackBoard) but likely wouldn’t bother adjusting any properties, settings, let alone do any collecting […]
Swimming with the Stanley Fishes: Mullen’s “Spectrification” of DH
Mullen’s assertion that everyone is a DH regardless of their age is a valid one because unless you’re Amish (and not watching a big screen TV in your barn), or the member of some obscure cult, more than likely you incorporate DH aspects into your life on a daily basis whether it is checking email, […]
Spectrum of the humanities
Digital humanities is a very vague and broad subject. The argument on what digital humanities is and how we use it is also very controversial. Mullen argues in her essay that the digital humanities has a spectrum, which I agree with. I think that digital humanities can be considered to be like any department […]
Mullen Blog
Within a spectrum of the digital humanities there will be varying degrees of complexity and usage in terms of how one might utalize the resources within the digital humanities to get their information and opinions across. If we go from low to high in terms of complexity, the individuals at the lowest end of the […]
“We’re All Digital Humanists Now”
In her blog post, Lincoln Mullen declares that the digital humanities can be thought of in terms of a spectrum. “To put it another way, all humanities scholars use digital practices and concepts to one degree or another, even those who do not identify as digital humanists” (237). I have a hard time accepting that […]
Mullen/Sample Response
On the one end of the spectrum are the Digital Humanists who, on a basic level, are using technology within their scholarship. In “Digital Humanities is a Spectrum or ‘We’re All Digital Humanists Now’” Lincoln Mullen describes, “…one historian keeps notes and transcribed documents in MS word documents so that they can be searched…A graduate student […]
