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I think\u00a0that in “The Death of a Discipline” David Golumbia’s argument is different from what we have viewed so far, and could be very important. But I have to stay that his suggesting that DH has little to do with the digital makes me rethink my own idea of what is considered to be digital? and what is not? In my attempt to do that, let’s first look at a simple definition of the word “digital” According to the English Oxford dictionary, digital means “(of signals or data) expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1, typically represented by values of a physical quantity such as voltage or magnetic polarization.” which looks very mathematical;however, the one definition that I want to consider is a sub-definition of the word “digital”\u00a0is “Involving or relating to the use of computer technology.” which is basically related directly to what we have\u00a0here. So does that sub-definition have\u00a0anything to do with Digital Humanities? I think\u00a0yes! My reason is\u00a0that even if DH contains many strategies, methods, and materials that are\u00a0so much like\u00a0traditional scholarship “books, articles, blog posts, and position statements”(172) it is still occur\u00a0in a digital virtual world that\u00a0based on “the use of computer technology”. This world was\u00a0created for the purpose of fast and almost instant communication and interaction which all are involved with digital humanities. Therefore,\u00a0I believe the use of the word “digital” in DH is out of the question because all the “traditional” literary work Golumbia\u00a0is referring to occur\u00a0in a digital enviroment, not a physical one. I think it’s that simple!<\/p>\n
With this in mind, it’s important to again note that Golumbia’s argument is important, and with value because he points out that much of the activities and techniques used in DH comes\u00a0from a traditional\u00a0standpoint, and based on centuries-old procedures. At the end of his essay, Golumbia\u00a0sort of insist that\u00a0DH has to\u00a0“demonstrate its capacity and commitment to contribute to literary studies as a project in the humanities, clarify its relationship to that enterprise and especially to the scholarly practices that define it, or else openly proclaim its rejection of those practices and thus its distance from the discipline itself” (173). However, I think Golumbia in his discussion did not consider\u00a0what is digital about the literary\u00a0activities, which is clear in mostly every aspect of its nature. First the tools used in creating these literary pieces are purely digital, like Word Press or Microsoft Word. Second, the time saved in researching anything related to the literary activity, from searching a simple term to searching what others have said about the same topic. And finally,\u00a0the little time spent in getting back a response which\u00a0can be\u00a0as little as instantly. Therefore, with DH, I think maybe the activities in itself didn’t change\u00a0much, but the tools in which we get things done did. For that reason, those tools have transformed the traditional literary activities into digital literary activities.<\/p>\n
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