McPherson Prompt Response
In order to bring together digital humanities and race, I would first suggest an evaluation of the structures of both areas. By bringing together “two modes of inquiry”, digital humanists can evaluate the good and the bad of both modes. When looking at two separate things and trying to bring them together, it helps to […]
Mcpherson’s Prompt
Tara Mcpherson argues in her essay that even though digital humanities and race are separate fields in academia, they are similar in nature and need to be brought closer together. She explains how the difficulties faced in “knitting together discussions of race with technological productions within the digital humanities” are an outcome of the post-World […]
Hayles Response
I think answering questions about what reading means before the internet and now has to be contextualized within what your objective is. Is this reading for pleasure, or reading as part of coursework for secondary education, undergrad, or grad school? Hayles identified a decreased efficacy in all of these categories. Is the goal then […]
How We Read
After re-reading the article by Hayles, in an attempt to shape a specific definition for reading, I came to the conclusion that there is no specific definition we can come up with. Defining reading in light of Hayles argument is just like DH, it bears so many possibilities and multiple terms associated with it, such as hyperreading, online […]
Response to Hayles
Hayles is discussing a subject that I feel is very important. As a 20 year old who keeps about 200 books in my tiny university townhouse, books are my favorite thing in the world. I have been an owner of two Amazon Kindles, the first in high school, which I used to read in class because […]
Hayles Response
As far as combating the “close-reading problem”, I don’t necessarily think of it as a problem. To an extent, and seemingly more often than not, close-reading is still being done, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, at least from what I can tell. I think what Hayles is instead getting at is that […]
Hayles and Trask Response
I believe that the concept of ‘reading’ can be attributed through many different formats and found in various avenues of the academic and social world, whether it be literary or not. I find that the evolution from reading physical pages to digital ones is an advancement that comes with its own varying degrees of […]
Response to Hayles
Being born in 1995, I grew up with the internet and it being a daily part of my life, especially since my father works for a Microsoft company. I don’t remember what reading was like before internet, but I can see the difference on reading skills of when I was younger with limited internet skills […]
Dreaming in Digital
Perhaps I am showing my age, I grew up and until my junior year of high school, pre-internet. Google wasn’t even popular until long after I graduated high school. The web seems to attract a lot of blame for the problem of attention and the difficulty with close reading. Distraction has always been a problem, […]
Responding to Hayles and Trask
Before the internet, reading was usually done in slower, longer units of time than it is done today. However, I think that Carr’s and Hayles’s articles placed too much nostalgic emphasis on these long reading tasks like novels and scholarly articles, forgetting to mention that we still “skimmed” and “scanned” in a fast reading style before the […]
