Terras: The Social Science DHer
The differences between Terras’ approach and those of the other notable players in the Digital Humanities field (or at least those we read) are pretty apparent. Most notably, her methodology, the writing style related to this methodology, and some of her assumptions about scholarship and the academic discipline stand out. In keeping with Terras’ highly […]
Terras Response: She doesn’t even go here
“Being a part of a discipline gives a scholar a sense of belonging, identity, and kudos. But the idea of what constitutes a discipline is muddy, and often hinges around the bricks and mortar proof of a university department’s existence” [72]. Terras frequently refers to the Humanities Computing field as a community. This assertion is […]
Terras’s Response
Apparently, Terras’s approach in “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing’ is based on outcomes and results coming from a research she conducted, and on information from ACH/ALLC 2005 conference. All of her effort was done to “analyze, measure, and define the field” through the use of “educational theory” (68) The perspective she adopted in order […]
Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities
Terras comes at the topic of Digital Humanities from a different perspective than the other authors we’ve read, like Spiro and McGann. She bluntly states in the beginning of her essay that she intends to evaluate Digital Humanities from the perspective of Education theory, which had not been done yet in other literature on the […]
Terras prompt 9/19 Response
Thinking about Terras essay “Disciplined, Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing;” there are a number of questions raised that ring similarly to other texts we’ve read so far, but a contrasting style in answering those questions is present. It’s not surprising to learn that she’s an engineer by trade before coming to the field […]
Terras Response
One of the big questions Terras asks is if digital humanities is a real discipline and in a department all by itself. People in all academic departments use digital technology. Digital humanities is just a fancy way of saying that people use technology to further their research. Terras says “That the amount of academic activity […]
Melissa Terras Response
Terras and her writing are different from the previous scholars we have read due to her focus on measurable data. Terras centers her arguments and observations around the data that she observed as being present in “Humanities Computing” or the digital humanities. The style of writing itself was different due to Terras’ background in engineering. […]
Response to Melissa Terras
In Melissa Terras’s article “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing’, she compiles an essay which discusses, evaluates, and investigates the inner workings of the coined name “Humanities Computing”. At first, I couldn’t tell if I was learning a new concept, as I had never heard of humanities computing. It takes Terras a while but […]
Terras Prompt: 9/19
Stephen Ramsay, Jerome McGann, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lisa Spiro: all of the authors that we’ve read up to this point are literary scholars. Most of them work and teach in English departments today, and all of them earned PhDs in English literature. Melissa Terras’ background is, however, different: Terras (who is one of the editors of […]
McGann essay blog response
McGann’s essay highlighted a great number of questions and concerns I’d had in our previous work in this class. I’d had a lot of trouble identifying where the rubber met the road, or where theory met practice. In my understanding that’s what he’s identifying when he’s saying things like “we must learn by going where […]
