{"id":518,"date":"2016-09-27T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=518"},"modified":"2016-09-27T01:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:11:31","slug":"mullensample-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/mullensample-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullen\/Sample Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the one end of the spectrum are the Digital Humanists who, on a basic level, are\u00a0using<\/em> technology within their scholarship.\u00a0 In \u201cDigital Humanities is a Spectrum or \u2018We\u2019re All Digital Humanists Now\u2019\u201d Lincoln Mullen describes, \u201c\u2026one historian keeps notes and transcribed documents in MS word documents so that they can be searched\u2026A graduate student in a hurry uses Amazon\u2019s \u2018Look Inside\u2019 feature to verify a footnote.\u00a0 A history department circulates papers for a workshop via email\u201d (Mullen 237). According to\u00a0Mullen, these people are Digital Humanists themselves, although they aren\u2019t all necessarily calling themselves such, because their level of involvement within DH isn’t as active, if you will. \u00a0He argues that, \u201cMoving from these practices to the digital humanities is a difference of degree, not of kind\u201d (237).\u00a0 Although they are doing, on a very basic level, the same kind of work as those who proudly proclaim themselves Digital Humanists, they aren\u2019t doing this in the same way or to the same extent. \u00a0Those who are simply using digital elements throughout their daily humanist work could be referred to as users.\u00a0<\/strong>The training that users would go through would be very minimal, and relatively surface level in comparison to those at the opposite end of the spectrum. \u00a0They would know how to use basic technology and use it in a such a way as detailed above by Mullen, like using MS word, and circulating papers via email. \u00a0These users aren’t doing any\u00a0building, nor are they creating either. \u00a0Instead, they are simply using.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the spectrum exists another group of Digital Humanists. \u00a0This is where the most collaboration and sharing appears to be happening, a higher degree of work being done than that of the users. \u00a0The scholars in this group are far beyond using, but they aren’t necessarily building. \u00a0They are beyond using because at this point on the spectrum, these people are creating, but again they aren’t building. \u00a0Perhaps they’re unable due to lack of training, or perhaps it is because they’d rather collaborate and share for the sake of inclusiveness. This isn’t to say that the idea of inclusiveness and collaboration\u00a0can’t or doesn’t exist on the other ends of the spectrum, but instead, that is exists\u00a0better\u00a0<\/em>here. Lisa Spiro in “This Is Why We Fight” argues, “Instead of working on a project alone, a digital humanist will typically participate as part of a team, learning from others and contributing to an ongoing dialogue.<\/span> By bringing together people with diverse expertise, collaboration opens up new approaches to tackling a problem, as statistical computing is applied to the study of literature or geospatial tools are used to understand historical data” (Spiro 1).<\/span>\u00a0Because these people are creating, but aren’t building, there is room for those who can do what they can’t to exist here as well. \u00a0They need and rely on those who can build, but who perhaps can’t, or simply don’t (for whatever reason), create.\u00a0The training and practices of these Digital Humanists is obviously different than that of users. \u00a0They are beyond simply\u00a0using\u00a0<\/em>digital elements in their work and are creating and sharing digital elements, collaborating with those who are beyond them as far as building goes. This group of Digital Humanists on the spectrum could be referred to as\u00a0creators<\/strong> and\/or\u00a0collaborators<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the opposite end of the spectrum is yet another group of Digital Humanists. \u00a0These scholars are doing what Steven Ramsey is calling for in his MLA presentation \u201cWho\u2019s In and Who\u2019s Out\u201d; they are building<\/em>, not simply using or creating.\u00a0These are the people who are coding themselves, building and making things\u00a0daily. \u00a0Ramsey asks, \u201cDo you have to know how to code?\u201d and responds, \u201cI\u2019m a tenured professor of digital humanities and I say \u2018yes\u2019\u201d (Ramsey 240). \u00a0Ramsey continues to argue for this, saying \u201cPersonally, I think Digital Humanities is about building things\u201d (241). Those who have a solid grasp of what is they are doing, so much so that they are able to navigate the technology they’re using on a very advanced level, with little collaboration.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say that collaboration can\u2019t exist on this end of the spectrum but instead, perhaps, that it isn\u2019t as necessary in terms of building.\u00a0If these kinds of Digital Humanists are able to code, the process of the making and creating is much more individual for the most part. To borrow language from Ramsey, the group of Digital Humanists at this end of the spectrum could be referred to as builders. <\/strong>These builders, like Stephen Ramsey and Jerome McGann (because of NINES), would have extensive and in depth training, respectively. \u00a0In order to build, an intimate knowledge of how the Digital works and operates is absolutely critical and must be put into practice each time they are building something. This is the highest degree of Digital Humanist work because they use, create and build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the one end of the spectrum are the Digital Humanists who, on a basic level, are\u00a0using technology within their scholarship.\u00a0 In \u201cDigital Humanities is a Spectrum or \u2018We\u2019re All Digital Humanists Now\u2019\u201d Lincoln Mullen describes, \u201c\u2026one historian keeps notes and transcribed documents in MS word documents so that they can be searched\u2026A graduate student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}