The humanities will always be changing. With that being said, I stick to what I have been saying these last few weeks regarding the definition and defying the digital humanities. If we continue to create definitions to what the digital humanities consist of, we will be limiting or arbitrarily creating self-defined limits on how we perceive the humanities in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
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Hayles makes a valid statement on page 64 \u201cliterary scholars generally think they know what is meant by close reading, <\/em>but, looked at more closely, it proves not so easy to define or exemplify.\u201d I think that this helps with my idea that you cannot create definitions. Defining items can be very tricky and you can start falling down a slippery slope. You will be limited on what you can read, think, imagine and so on if we create these alternate and standard definitions.\u00a0By creating an open and self-defining definition of the humanities, it creates a vague concentration that could help categorize everything that we need it to categorize (like what Brittany) stated in her post about images, sounds, animations, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Going forward, I believe that the definition of the digital humanities has definitely changed. Nothing can ever be the same in the aspect that time influences everything and since the humanities is evolving, so will our definition of what it is. I believe that if we, as a society, were to keep the definition of digital humanities the same, we would be stuck arguing about the difference between Shakespeare the entire time and now moving forward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moving forward with an evolving definition can only benefit the humanities as we are always creating and finding new things. How could we fit an old definition into a new and always changing disciplinary? We can start practicing this type of defining by creating more discussions and more classes regarding digital humanities. I know in class one day we discussed whether the digital humanities should be just a graduate study program, but why restrict this study?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If we are always evolving and this is the new form of learning and what we will become, why should we restrict undergraduates (or anyone, really) from learning about how the digital humanities is progressing. By limiting those wanting to learn, we are only harming ourselves and the future of the humanities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Word clouds are an interesting topic to bring awareness to and I think we can get a generalized conception of how we look at the humanities in general. I think that pre-internet days could consist of words that are not digitally formed. We would see a lot more words like \u2018close reading, Shakespeare, historicism, deconstructionism, etc.;\u2019 but now I believe you could find words like \u2018digital press, google, blogs,\u2019 and honestly anything to do with the internet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This scares me in a sense. I think that the humanities and digital humanities is great but I feel like we could become too absorbed into the technology that we will forget about pre-digital days and we could fall into an unknown territory that could possibly manipulate and completely destroy everything that we have come to work for in the humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The humanities will always be changing. With that being said, I stick to what I have been saying these last few weeks regarding the definition and defying the digital humanities. If we continue to create definitions to what the digital humanities consist of, we will be limiting or arbitrarily creating self-defined limits on how we […]<\/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-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}