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Week 10: Digital Humanities Discussion

Humanities Discussion

Q Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Link (online PDF): What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? Link (website): The Landscape of Digital Humanities Link (website): Day of Digital Humanities 2014 Introduction Digital humanities (aka DH) has become a rapidly growing field of interest in the past decade or so. The popularity of the field has led to some confusion about exactly what DH is and if it is really its own discipline. Some believe DH is simply humanities disciplines in various digital formats. This week you get do some reading and draw your own conclusions. Initial Post Instructions After reading the articles noted in this activity, address the following: Is digital humanities really a separate subdiscipline in the humanities, or is it really just combining computing with the other humanities disciplines? Explain and defend your answer. Secondary Post Instructions Respond to your classmates’ opinions about the nature of digital humanities. What points did they make that you did not think of? Writing Requirements (MLA format) In addition to one initial post, respond to at least two peers. Initial Post Length: minimum of 350 words (Citations do not apply to your total word count.) Secondary Post Length: minimum of 200 words per post Use MLA format for in-text citations and list of references.

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The word “digital humanities” is becoming very popular nowadays and we get to hear it on almost every realm of modern life now. So many people are pursuing this field and willing to take it up in future. In simple terms, digital humanities are the result of an interconnection between information technology and humanities, thus, it is not to be considered as a field outside the study of Humanities, but one inside it but with a more open minded, modern and technolog