Archive for October, 2016
Reading Process
A word cloud for reading before the internet might include words like “close reading,” “reading for fun,” “reading for information,” “scanning,” “skimming,” “book clubs,” and “time-consuming.” A word cloud for reading after the internet will include many of the same words, with the possible exception of “book clubs” and “time-consuming.” Book clubs are a dying […]
Unknown Territory
The humanities will always be changing. With that being said, I stick to what I have been saying these last few weeks regarding the definition and defying the digital humanities. If we continue to create definitions to what the digital humanities consist of, we will be limiting or arbitrarily creating self-defined limits on how we […]
Reading Ourselves Reading Digitally–Response to Trask
I think there’s real value in thinking through our conception of reading as an activity. It’s something we do so constantly, and something that, as Hayles shows, changes us in the process. Thinking back on previous conceptions of reading may help us realize we haven’t always read the same way we do now, and that […]
Hayles- How We Read Response
The Internet has changed how we read, and not in a good way. I am a person who believes the Internet is one of the inventions that has changed the world the most, but not all of it has been for the better. Prior to this age of digital reading, reading was done in blocks […]
Trask- Hayles Prompt
Hayles argues that websites like Wordle and the use of a hermetic word frequency counters are valuable tools to combatting the close-reading problem that seems so prevalent: Now it is time to rethink what reading is and how it works in the rich mixtures of words and images, sounds, and animations, graphics and letters that […]
EWL.org / Metadata Assignment: Revision Roundup
Thanks, first, for all of the hard work that you put into the EWL.org / Metadata assignment. I’m very pleased to report that, thanks to your collective efforst, the EdithWhartonsLibrary.org database now contains 516 searchable entries, which is another way of saying that we have nearly 1/5 of it done. I learned a lot from […]
Response to Cody’s prompt
Both Matthew and Brett Bobley use umbrella, or “umbrella nature” to describe DH in our reading this week, I like the inclusive nature of that metaphor; it brings everyone together under itself. I think the definition offered at the bottom of page 293 is closest to what I would identify as DH practically. “…DH as an […]
Happy Slippy Trippiness: (Or the Effects of DH on a Traditional Humanist)
Although there are several definitions of DH that we have discussed, none of them were as enjoyable to read as Chapter 20 given the alternation between snark and deathly sincerity. Forcier likening DH to an oil spill on the side of the road is both especially humorous and serious in the sense that comparing something […]
Defining DH: Definitions Response
Even though Stephen Ramsay is a DH428 certified crank, I found myself drawn to his definition. He pictures DH [in this snapshot moment] as people and scholars with broad ranging interests. “Practitioners are as likely to be adept at Java as they are post-structuralism; as drawn to the iPhone as they are Moby Dick; as […]
10/10 response
The question of whether or not DH changes people fundamentally depends, I think, on who they are, and ultimately what they do within DH. If for example someone goes into DH with little knowledge of the digital, their understanding of and what they can do within it will undoubtedly be fundamentally changed. To an extent, this […]
