Mullen / Sample Prompt: 9/26
For class today, we surveyed a number of blog posts, all of which date from 2010-2011 and all of which respond to key controversies facing digital humanities scholarship. In Lincoln Mullen’s “We’re All Digital Humanists Now,” for example, Mullen argues for an inclusive definition of DH, viewing digital humanities scholarship as a “spectrum” of activity, […]
Terras Blog responce
Terras points out the fact how the computer science and the “pure” humanities need to work together to create better projects in the digital humanities. With the dismissal of computer scientists when developing applications in the digital humanities, programs can become highly inefficient. From Terras’s essay the digital humans seem to deal with text a […]
Response to Terra
One of the main differences that can be seen between Terra’s essay and the other authors that we have read so far this semester is her use of numbers and visual representations. When discussing the ACH/ALLC 2005 conference, she uses graphs and spreadsheets to present her findings. From what I know about engineers, they need […]
Terras Response
In Melissa Terras’ essay, “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing’”, the author provides an assessment based on findings drawn from her interviews within the Digital Humanities community and the number of presenters at the ACH/ALLC Conference, in addition to other supplemental research on how ‘Humanities Computing’ is viewed as a ‘discipline’ and how […]
Terras Response
Melissa Terras’ writing within “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing” is noticeably different from the writing-of Stephan Ramsey, Lisa Spiro, Matt Kirschenbaum, and Jerome McGann. Although upon initially reading Terras’ article I didn’t know she was an Engineer, there was certainly something about her writing and its format that stood out. It doesn’t […]
Terras 9/19
As a PhD in engineering, Melissa Terras has a much more technical and scientific approach to how she views the study of digital humanities, compared to that of the other literary scholars we have read and discussed thus far. When the literary scholars write their essays, they have a type of literary flair to their […]
STEMMER in the House! : The Clinical Meets the Digital
Terras’ background as a STEMmer instead of Humanist shines through in her writing as well as methodology. Overall, her writing is extremely technical and detailed in a sciencey, clinical fashion, rather than attempt to be coy and get us to infer the consequences of the DH as legitimate scholarship debate, she explicitly says early on […]
Response to Terras: Thou shalt not fear numbers
When I first read the essay by Melissa Terras, I was not aware that her degree is in engineering, rather than English or another humanities subject. This revelation helps me understand why her essay is so much different than the other essays we have read so far. The first striking difference is that Terras uses numbers frequently throughout […]
Response
Melissa Terras wrote the article, Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing.’ Throughout the article, she argues on why the discipline has trouble finding funds and what the implications are throughout the Digital Humanities. Though the studies are different between digital humanities and technological studies might be two separate entities of itself, I thoroughly […]
Terras Response
When I read Terras’ article, I noticed that her approach seemed very analytical, using data tables and list to describe from a distance what seems to be trending in the humanities. Though I didn’t know her scholarly position at the time, I had the impression that she was an outsider looking in. However, as a pro-digital […]
