Digital Humanities: General Category
Making DH inclusive: A case study
Feb. 12, 2012—In this post I will try to make a case for why and how the discourse surrounding digital humanities can become more inclusive. As I said in class, the specific language of “bigger, better, faster” may seem like a viable and even true “justification” for the inclusion of digital humanities into the academy, where justification...
iBooks Textbooks
Jan. 20, 2012—As though in (some kind of) response to Cory’s post on HASTAC, apple launched yesterday iBooks Textbooks, basically interactive textbooks that one may purchase and use on their ipad. I find the interactive aspect of this idea potentially intriguing. I’m not sure to what extent students think of textbooks as something to interact with. Workbooks...
So, what’s this all about? How is it different from what we normally do?
Jan. 17, 2012—After our first class, I wondered if many of the students had a grasp of exactly about what we were discussing. There were two salient questions that I felt were unanswered. First, what exactly IS Digital Humanities? It’s hard to describe, as you can imagine. If you were to ask, “what is French literature?” The...