{"id":515,"date":"2016-09-28T02:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-09-28T02:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:58:03","slug":"dh-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/dh-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"DH Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the essays of digital humanities from different scholars all ranging in their field, I have come to the conclusion that DH is all over the place. There are some who argue that maybe just putting scholarly text online for the world to see and comment is digital humanities, while the ever loving Ramsay believes that &#8220;if you&#8217;re not building something, you&#8217;re not a digital humanist&#8221;. These are complete opposite extremes of DH and this creates such a wide range that it is hard for the scholars on each side of the spectrum to see the same light. The spectrum I offer is not as wide of a range, but it also may exclude some parts of what people mean to be a digital humanist.<\/p>\n<p>Category One: Advanced Skills of Working the Digital World<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now I don&#8217;t quite agree with Ramsay that if you&#8217;re not building something, you&#8217;re not a digital humanist, but you do need to have a certain level of skill and education to be a digital humanist. DH cannot just start off with the fact of publishing you&#8217;re scholarly texts online for the world to comment on (sorry McGann and the NINES project). The year is 2016 and most English scholars are already using technology that McGann may define as DH. As Mullen argues &#8220;We&#8217;re already being transformed\u00a0 &#8211; all of us&#8221; when describing researchers using an archive website or professors putting up an assignment on blackboard. If it is something that people already do and it doesn&#8217;t take much effort to do it, why would it be considered as scholarly? I propose starting off the spectrum with people learning the skills and tools needed to navigate the digital world. You don&#8217;t have to build something like Ramsay, but you should at least know the tools of doing so. If DH wants to be taught in universities, people actually need to learn new skills, not just use the same ones as their already used to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Category Two: Collaboration on Building<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you learn the skills of how to navigate the digital world and possibly build something, you don&#8217;t have to do it alone (hooray!). Collaboration of humanist scholars and computer engineers are the second step to the DH. To be a digital humanist, you shouldn&#8217;t have to know the most advanced coding, encryption, and all the other things that computer engineers know and computer engineers shouldn&#8217;t have to recite King Lear by heart. Both fields should know the basics so that when they do collaborate for the digital humanities, they can both understand the basis of what the other is doing and what the other is aiming for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Category Three: Building<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not building something, you can still be a digital humanist, you just aren&#8217;t the most advanced digital humanist. I know, Ramsay is an old coot, but I do actually agree with him (somewhat). The last category of the digital humanities is actually building something, on you&#8217;re own. Category two makes it so that English scholars don&#8217;t have to know the advanced systems of coding, but they totally can if they want. Double majoring in English and computer science shouldn&#8217;t be two completely opposite and non-related fields. They can coexist together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the essays of digital humanities from different scholars all ranging in their field, I have come to the conclusion that DH is all over the place. 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