Archive for September, 2016
Terras prompt 9/19 Response
Thinking about Terras essay “Disciplined, Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing;” there are a number of questions raised that ring similarly to other texts we’ve read so far, but a contrasting style in answering those questions is present. It’s not surprising to learn that she’s an engineer by trade before coming to the field […]
Terras Response
One of the big questions Terras asks is if digital humanities is a real discipline and in a department all by itself. People in all academic departments use digital technology. Digital humanities is just a fancy way of saying that people use technology to further their research. Terras says “That the amount of academic activity […]
Melissa Terras Response
Terras and her writing are different from the previous scholars we have read due to her focus on measurable data. Terras centers her arguments and observations around the data that she observed as being present in “Humanities Computing” or the digital humanities. The style of writing itself was different due to Terras’ background in engineering. […]
Response to Melissa Terras
In Melissa Terras’s article “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing’, she compiles an essay which discusses, evaluates, and investigates the inner workings of the coined name “Humanities Computing”. At first, I couldn’t tell if I was learning a new concept, as I had never heard of humanities computing. It takes Terras a while but […]
Terras Prompt: 9/19
Stephen Ramsay, Jerome McGann, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lisa Spiro: all of the authors that we’ve read up to this point are literary scholars. Most of them work and teach in English departments today, and all of them earned PhDs in English literature. Melissa Terras’ background is, however, different: Terras (who is one of the editors of […]
McGann essay blog response
McGann’s essay highlighted a great number of questions and concerns I’d had in our previous work in this class. I’d had a lot of trouble identifying where the rubber met the road, or where theory met practice. In my understanding that’s what he’s identifying when he’s saying things like “we must learn by going where […]
A Post about McGann
I think McGann is highlighting the importance of learning all about the digital tools and methods that are to be used in acquiring the digital humanities language. How valuable it is to the filed and to its future. He illustrates the value of information technology by using the verb “master” which indicates that humanists need […]
McGann
In Jerome McGann’s essay “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities”, he focuses on the impending future of the humanities. In a few places, he mentions the benefits of the humanities quickly becoming digitized, but, all in all, his essay efforts surround the fact that we, as studentsof the humanities, will have to soon change our […]
McGann Response
Swinburne’s quote “glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things” is exactly how the human mind works. Since the beginning of time, people have pushed to evolve. They built roads and learns agriculture. Everything they did was to make life easier. Digital Humanities is just another way for the world […]
McGann Response
In writing “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities”, James McGann speaks of a “train”, saying, “…whether we choose to or not, we should all be clear about the slow train that’s coming and that won’t be sidetracked” (McGann 63). The “slow train”, the one “that won’t be sidetracked”, seems to be the call for […]
