Fundamental Change Response
If you were to ask any twenty random people, who at some level knew what digital humanities was, you would get twenty different definitions. Digital humanities is a rather broad subject, and maybe that is why there will never be a definitive definition. People can speculate all they want about what the DH should be. […]
DH – Fundamentally Changing us All
Digital Humanities is changing us all, or at least the people who are studying the humanities. I think it’s a little bit of a reach to suggest that DH is going to change people fundamentally to the core and completely change our way of thinking and life, but it’s definitely going to change us somehow, […]
Defining DH: Blog post 10/10
DH can change people fundamentally, in that DH might force scholars to change their worldview on humanities. For a scholar to fully be enveloped in the DH field, they have to do some reimagining of how to do their scholarship. The reimagining comes easy for some, not so easy for others. For a scholar to […]
DH & Fundamental Change: Prompt for 10/10
Once again, we turn to definitions of Digital Humanities, and it increasingly seems, at least in our brief foray into the field, that defining is an important facet of DH, or at least something that cannot yet be taken for granted. In our blog post for today, I’d like us to take a run at […]
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, […]
