Mullen’s spectrum is an outline of who fits where on the line of how much digital humanities they use in their work. \u00a0The 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 five being middle ground.<\/p>\n
Category five is what I would label as Microsoft Word. Everybody uses it. Whether it’s for work, making notes, writing a letter; it’s all the same in terms of technical skill. People can somehow mess up Microsoft word. \u00a0I don’t know how they do it, but they do. \u00a0Microsoft word is the standard that people use. \u00a0It’s our starting point. \u00a0If you get that wrong, you’re bound to get everything after that wrong too.<\/p>\n
Categories one to four is based off of community and collaboration. \u00a0Mullen’s and Terras would fit into this category. \u00a0When I say collaboration, I think of a library. \u00a0A place where people go to research a specific thing. \u00a0You could say that the lower end of the spectrum is for those who don’t know how to build the digital humanities, but rather use them. \u00a0This is the place where the more traditional scholars will be. \u00a0Doing digital humanities work based off of their already existing fields. In here you might find photoshop, a tool that you can use to create your own photo from pre-existing photos. \u00a0You are using a tool and therefore not creating one, so this tool places you in the lower categories, at least when you are using this specific tool.<\/p>\n
Categories six to ten involves the hard core digital coding that those in the lower categories use. The categories at the higher end of the spectrum are based off of Ramsey’s arguments. \u00a0He says that in order to be considered a digital humanist, you have to know how to code. \u00a0You don’t have to know the specific codes for everything, just what you are studying for. \u00a0The variation in the coding is what leads to the separation of the higher levels. \u00a0Ramsey also believes that disciplines can destroy themselves through overprecise definition.<\/p>\n
Because Ramsey’s believes that you can destroy a discipline through definition and that you need to know who to code, he gets the top spot at category ten in a Mullen Spectrum. And Mullen’s gets a category one for having the spectrum. \u00a0Ramsey’s refutes Mullen’s argument which natural puts them on opposite ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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