Chun et al., \u201cDarkside of the digital humanities\u201d brings up a lot of valid points regarding the sanctity of digital humanities. Within all this, the question with Universities are brought up and how we can save corporatization with universities.<\/p>\n
I personally believe that Wendy Chun makes a valid point when she states, \u201cI also want to stress that my sympathetic critique is not aimed at the humanities, but at the general euphoria surrounding technology and education.\u201d I think if we were able to start looking at education in a broader sense, we would steer away from corporatization. Think of it like this, back when my mother went to school, they were taught a wide range of topics. Between all of this, though it was not so in-depth of what we are taught now, they had a broader range of knowledge that helped them as they could dive into a subject and learn more deeply.<\/p>\n
Compare that to now and we are taught to do the total opposite in universities. We are taught to have a specific categorization. We are taught to have a specific major with a special emphasis. I think this is the problem that Chun is trying to address. We don\u2019t generalize anymore. We have this need to get down to the details, the nitty gritty. So, it is not just the humanities that has this problem. It is education in its whole. It is the way that we believe we ought to learn because it is how we are told to do so. This is the argument we have been arguing all semester.<\/p>\n
Instead of what is <\/em>the Digital Humanities, we should consider what ought <\/em>to consider the general sense of how the digital humanities fits in with other departments. As a student at a University, we focus so much on defining what we know and how we practice it that we forget that there are other components to learning.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, if the bright side of the digital humanities is the dark side, let me suggest that the dark side\u2014what is now considered to be the dark side\u2014may be where we need to be.\u00a0The dark side, after all, is the side of passion.<\/span>\u201d (Chun)<\/p>\n Now, if what I have been saying has been true the entire time, then maybe the we ought <\/em>to look at digital humanities and education as a whole as a dark thing. We are taught from a young age that education is important. That it is vital to succeed. What if education isn\u2019t as fulfilling as we believe it is? These are the thoughts that I come to think when I read some of the articles in this class. Why is learning important? Why must we do this? The Digital Humanists create conflict between everything and everyone they encounter. I think that in order to be successful, you do need to create conflict. You need to look at everything in a pessimistic way. You need to play devil\u2019s advocate. You need to see the light in the dark but also realize that with that, there is also dark in the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chun et al., \u201cDarkside of the digital humanities\u201d brings up a lot of valid points regarding the sanctity of digital humanities. Within all this, the question with Universities are brought up and how we can save corporatization with universities. I personally believe that Wendy Chun makes a valid point when she states, \u201cI also want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}