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 …
The two cultures
Throughout my college career I have noticed a real difference in the values, preferences, and modes of discourse between my peers in the humanities and those in the Sciences. I had previously thought that only the starkest individuals stood out …