{"id":590,"date":"2016-10-10T14:29:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=590"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:30:13","slug":"response-to-gibbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/response-to-gibbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Cody’s Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The digital humanities do change people fundamentally. This is in ways of learning, and growing with the ever changing world into a machine of forward digital movement. Of course this would either attract or repel people, and this, as always, relies on age and experience. Digital humanities can propel projects to be done faster, people to communicate easier, and things to be created more efficiently. Mitsuyuki Inaba refers to DH as “a kind of ‘fast-acting glue’ that allows scholars with different academic backgrounds to collaborate instantly” (282) and this is very true, in that, without the growth of DH in the past decade, the world of humanities would still be stuck in all-text mode. Take the Edith Wharton library for example, if not for the fast-acting glue of DH, the library would never be on it’s way to being digitalized. Most people don’t even know Wharton has a library, let alone the amazing things inside it, and the things you can learn about her as a person and author within her books. It is because of this surge of DH, and the attract that it had on Dr. Liming that made the digital library possible. However, many people will shy against this fast-acting glue, and stick to the\u00a0traditional\u00a0<\/em>way. Who are these people? Probably older people, or people with not much experience with humanities in the first place, or people who never got the chance to be trained in the digital arts in the first place.<\/p>\n

Joanquin Rodriguez defines DH quite simply: “There’s no way to divide humanities from its digital basis just as there was no way of separating the humanities from their previous (still alive) analog medium, paper. We live, write, read, learn, work, digitally, and we create, deliver and use every content digitally as well” (282). Isn’t this the case? That we do all of these things, and they come quite naturally? Even being attracted to a billboard on the Interstate is being attracted to the DH, because that was something made\u00a0digitally.\u00a0<\/em>Someone wrote, read, learned, worked, created, and delivered, this one piece of art and advertisement, and this roots from the humanities of their company. What once was just McDonald’s, with burgers and paper menus, turned into an entire array of foods and the digital showcase you see from your car–or, as Brad Brace says DH is, “[S]omething borrowed, something new…” (283).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The digital humanities do change people fundamentally. This is in ways of learning, and growing with the ever changing world into a machine of forward digital movement. Of course this would either attract or repel people, and this, as always, relies on age and experience. Digital humanities can propel projects to be done faster, people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}