I never before have heard of the term “Digital Humanities”. After doing the first weeks readings for my Digital Humanities class at CSUN, I realized it is an interesting field of study that seems to try to make people aware …
The Two Cultures Are Causing Confusion
To be honest, I am in a confused mode.
Out of all the articles and videos, The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow got my attention the most. The world of literature and the world of digital technology are completely two …
Exploring the Digital Humanities
Though the presence of the “digital humanities” as it has been dubbed has been prevalent in educational circles for some time, it is now just coming to light in a way that it never has before. It’s evident in the …
DH- Better Than Sliced Bread
I’ve gathered from the readings, that the Humanities, is on the verge of large scale change. The implementation of technology can radically alter the way the human experience is captured by fields like art, literature and drama. Technology, I believe, …
Aside
After doing the assigned reading, I learned that Digital Humanities is all around us and with time, it only grows. As stated in A Digital Humanities Manifesto, “knowledge of the Humanities as constituted in the modern university has shaped …
The Digital Humanities: Don’t Fight It
Perhaps the most resonant of the concepts I’ve read for this week is the concept of Two Cultures – that is, the Culture of the Scientist and the Culture of the Humanist. As far as my narrow wording can describe …
Digital Humanities is for us ALL
Through out the many texts that I read, I found a reoccurring universal idea which referred to the Digital Humanities as benefiting us ALL. Lincoln Mullen argues that we have all been immersed into the digital world without even being …
(Not) Accepting the Digital Humanities
Okay, so to start off, let me say that I attempted most of the reading…most. I was terribly overwhelmed by the amount of reading we had to do on the first week of school on a subject that we know, …
Humanities and the Role of Technology
It seems to me that the acquisition and use of new technology is inevitable for virtually every human being in the industrialized world. If you look back only 20 years, having a cell phone and a computer, let alone the …