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 […]
We’re all on the spectrum
Ramsy takes a restrictive approach to digital humanities. With his essay “Who’s In and Who’s Out”, he states the in order to be a digital humanist you need to be able to code. I find this notion confusing. I you have an idea on why type of program you need in order to do your […]
Sketching the DH Spectrum
If we imagine DH as a spectrum, there are certainly a few categories that would stand out, and we see these categories present themselves again and again, often implicit, in the definition arguments of various digital humanists. Let’s try and sketch them out: Builders/Programmers: In this area of DH, the focus is on constructing digital […]
The Spectrum of Digital Humanities
If I were to imagine the spectrum of digital humanities, I would have three main categories. On one end of the spectrum, I would put what some scholars call the “thinker.” On the right I would have the people are “building things” as Stephen Ramsay puts it, and in the middle of the spectrum I […]
Spectrum of DH
If we were to sort the Digital Humanities into a spectrum based on Mullen’s definition of DH: Category One would involve the people whose focus is on using digital tools to research the humanities in a new way. This is the most obvious use of Digital Humanities and perhaps it holds the origins of DH. […]
Mullen & Sample: DH Spectrum
The spectrum Mullen proposes seems problematic. I just have too many questions. For the sake of the blog post, I’ll do my darnedest to make one up, but let me pontificate for just a brief moment: What does a non digital humanist look like? Mullen says, “working as a digital humanist is not one side of a binary, […]
Mullen’s Spectrum
Mullen’s spectrum is an outline of who fits where on the line of how much digital humanities they use in their work. The spectrum is a grid that shows the level of competence toward the digital humanities. Going from category one to category ten, with each of them being on the extreme ends and category […]
