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Name : Gausvami Surbhi A.
Assignment
Topic : “Digital humanities”
Paper
no. Literary theory and criticism
Email id:
gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com
Roll No. :
24
Submitted to
: Dr. Dilip Barad, Department of English
MKBU University.
*What is Digital
humanities:
“Digital humanities is an academic field
concerned with the application of computational tools and Methods to
traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history and philosophy“
One
may ask the question that what is the connection between digital and humanities
because it seems that both are completely contrast field. Digital concerned
with machine and humanities concerned with arts and literature. Every method,
knowledge and approach is interdisciplinary. Man is a social animal. Thus the
knowledge or education can not be separated from the human life. Knowledge
being the central point around which ethical, religious, spiritual, physical,
mechanical and psychological aspects of human life. This aspects are interwoven.
The aim of education is the unification of knowledge existing in different
branches of learning. Therefore digital and humanities are directly connected
and according to famous structuralist
Gerard Genette method developed for the study of one discipline could be
satisfactorily applied to the study of other discipline as well, which he
calls, “intellectual Bricolage” No subject can be taught in isolation. Every
subject is inter disciplinary.
Digital
humanities means computer assisted literary study since the invention of
computers, it knows only one language that is English. Thus English department
and digital world are directly connected and digital technique can applied to
other humanities field as well. Computers have been part of our disciplinary
lives for well over two decades now. During this time digital humanities has accumulated
a robust professional apparatus that is
probably more rooted in English than any other departmental home.
Digital
humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of
computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It can
be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative
transdiciplinary and computationally engaged research ,teaching and publishing
it brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the
recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge
production and distribution. By providing and using new applications and
techniques, DH makes new kinds of teaching and research possible, while at the
same time studding and critiquing these impact cultural heritage and digital
culture. Thus, a distinctive feature of DH is its cultivation of a two way
relationship between the humanities and the digital.
The
goal of digital humanities is to create scholarship that transcends textual
sources. A growing number of researchers in digital humanities are using
computational methods for the analysis of large cultural data such as the Google
books corpus. For eg. If some Ph.D. candidate do his research on “Female
characters in Virginia Woolf novel” and if he buy all the novels of virgina Woolf
and then read and do analysis then it will take years. But if give this
instruction to computer then within a second or minute you will get the data.
* Tools:-
Digital
humanities scholars use a variety of digital tools for their research. Which
may take place in an environment as small as a mobile device or as large as a
virtual reality lab digital humanities include everything from personal
equipment to institutes and software to cyberspace. Some scholars use advanced
programming languages and databases, while others use less complex tools,
depending on their needs. Digital humanities tools is a list of online or
downloadable digital humanities tools that are largely free helping students and others who lack access to
funding or institutional savers. Face open source web publishing platforms like
word press and omeka are also popular tools.
The
phrase digital humanities, is not singular but it is plural. Able to address
and engage disparate subject matters across media, language, location, and
history. DH values collaboration plurality, investigation of human culture. It
just not the use of digital technology for humanity projects but how the use of
digital technology for humanities projects changes the user’s experience.
What is
the “digital humanities” also known as “humanities computing “ It’s tempting to
say that whoever asks the question has not gone looking very hard for an
answer. Willard mccarty has been contributing papers on the subject for years.
Under the earlier appellation, John Unsworth has advised “What is humanities
computing and what is it not” Most recently Patrik svensson has been publishing
a series of well documented articles on multiple aspects of the topic,
including the lexical shift from humanities computing to digital humanities. An
organization called the Alliance of digital humanities organizations hosts a
well attended annual international conference called digital humanities. There
is a book series, topic in the digital humanities.
Crucially,
digital humanities, is visible in another way : the social networking service
twitter as a students we can “tweets” regarding study, syllabus, and unlike
facebook twitter allows for asymmetrical
relationship. You can “Follow” someone or they can follow you. Without the relationship
being reciprocated. In this way students can have information exchange.
* Four
pillars of digital humanities:
1) Projects
2) Tools and Resources
3) Research Methods
4) Omeka
(1) Digital
Humanities Projects:
* Women in print:
Women in
print is a peer reviewed e-book series that the university of Illinois
published online featuring digitized books, transcriptions and facsimiles.
* Emblematica
Largest
renaissance emblem book collections are being digitized, indexed, and organized
into a portal that provides access to emblem book collections worldwide.
* Image of Research:
Students
are invited to submit an image and text articulating how the image connects to
their research.
* The uses of scale in literary study :
A
collaborative project that aims to encourage livelier exploration literary
history by demonstrating the substantial literary historical value of new methodologies
reducing barrier to entry for scholar and sharing resources for normalizing
large collections of text.
* Virtual verse :
This is a
joint initiative between the University of Illinois at Urbana campaign and the
university of Jenness to curate digitally published poetry from around the
internet.
* Note :
Illinois University
concerned with humanities and they have these much projects in the field of DH.
(2) Tools
and resources :
(i) Digital
Humanities Software
(1) Nvivo 10
(2) R studio
(3) Abbyy fine reader
(4) Atlas
(ii) Digital Humanities Hardware
(1) My computer
(2) Morae abserver workstation
(3) Various accessories
(4) Digital scanners
(5) Dual Monitor PCS
* Tools around the Web
(1) Paper machines
(2) Topic Modeling tool
(3) Omeka
(4) World Maps
(5) ORA
(6) Mathematica
(3) Research
Methods :
1) Data Curation :
Humanities
data can be text, geospatial data
results of analysis and more.
2) Digital Publishing
Method for
showcasing and sharing scholarly work
3) Image Analysis
Extracting
information from digital images utilizing digital image processing techniques.
4) Text Encoding
Text
encoding is a process where documents are transferred to an electronically
searchable format for digital humanities research.
5) Audio Visual Projects
It includes
projects like documentaries, podcast or media presentations.
6) Machine Learning
Rules to teach computers how to accomplish tasks.
(4) Omeka :
Omeka is
a software tool that enable you to create dynamic online exhibits that showcase
collections of digital images, text and other multimedia formats in one
seamless site.
* What’s it
doing in English Departments?
My
English department is the live example of Digital humanities. I am the student
of English department, MKBU university, Bhavnagar, Gujarat and I am studying
under the guidance of Dr. Dilip Barad, Head of the English Department, MKBU
University.
We are the
students of English literature. We have to deal with arts and literature
including poetry, drama, novels, criticism etc. then one may ask the question
what computers are doing there or laptops, mobiles are useless for you
students. No it’s not.
Our sir is
very much Technology friendly man. He has developed one laptop bank in our
department and all the students have smart phone. He inspired us to write blog
on whatever activity we have done. He himself wrote numbers of blogs and
published it online. we have to do thinking activity write blog and publish it
online. So others also can be beneficial. We write assignments and make
presentation in our blog and publish it online. So everyone can view it. We
access more and more internet for more information and study.
We are habituated
to collect information regarding syllabus from various internet sources. It
enhance student's mental horizon and they can study deeply, and become
master of their subject. We have unit online test and we get materials by
mails. and we have to write blog regarding units or classroom activity.
Recently, our
sir talked about “what if machines write poems ?” “ What if machines write better poems than
humans ?”
In the
seventeenth year of the digital era it sounds stupid to ask weather machines /
computers can write poems or not. We face ever grave and frightening question.
What if machines write better poems than humans? What if human poem sounds
mechanical and machines humane ? and time will come when computers /
machine will be privilege over humans.
We got the
experience of writing poems with the help of computers and this is the link,
where you can write poems, by computer.
We are
learning through flipped learning. In which we watch video related to our
syllabus such as Derrida, Wordsworth, T.S.Eliot which are posted online by our
sir first we watch that video give online quiz, write answers, and then ask
questions to teacher about quarry.
At the end of
M.A. study students make their digital portfolio in which they publish their
activity online including blogs, assignments, presentation progress graphs etc.
This is how digital humanities works in our department.
* Conclusion
:
This is a 21st
century, a modern era, the of information. And every method every study is
interdisciplinary no subject can be taught in isolation. One can not
discriminate digital and humanities field. And if they will go together then it
will create landmark.
* Net
sources :
* Digital humanities Wikipedia.
*
dilipbarad.blogspot.in
* Article by Mathew G.Krischenbaum.
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