I personally believe that digital
humanities is a wide variety of digital compilations of works, pieces, and
articles across a global scale via technology. The pieces that are compiled
could include pictures of things as simple as a painting done by a third grader
that a mom uploaded on Facebook, to as advanced as a picture with endless
sub-pictures. Some of the works that could be collected can be simple or
advanced as well. They could be simple like a blog or even a Twitter post, to
as complex as a book on advanced quantum mechanics or Einstein’s theory.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum has agreed with some of these statements when he stated
them in his article,
Digital Humanities is a broad
topic that has multiple focuses on multiple subjects. The subjects that could
be involved are things like history, art, philosophy, literature, or even a
computer class. These have a wide variety of complexities as well, intertwining
their knowledges. For example there could be an online essay about the history
and development of philosophy.
-Chris Weber
You touch on some good stuff here, Chris. Note, though, that there's a significant different between digitized "stuff," like a text book, and born-digital "stuff," like the works of electronic literature we've been reading.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is there a hyperlink in there somewhere?