{"id":8130,"date":"2013-01-13T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2013-01-13T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T20:11:23","slug":"digital-humanities-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/01\/13\/digital-humanities-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Humanities Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Huffington<\/em> reports<\/a> that… “The backlash against so-called ‘Digital Humanities’ (DH) has begun in earnest,” I thought I’d spend a merry hour with Photoshop and put together a quick at-a-glance map of the way I see the digital humanities at January 2013. It might be useful, at the start of such a flame-war<\/strike> debate, to have at least one neat visual of what the digital humanities seem to encompass. <\/p>\n

Digital humanists may already be popping their pods at the upstart presumption of my doing this, yet I can’t find any online evidence that they’ve published anything similar. Concise corrections and suggestions are welcome…<\/p>\n

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By “new media familiarisation” in pedagogy I mean structured programmes of hands-on experience: “profs play videogames, etc” but also “students venture outside their own little tech-bubble”.<\/p>\n

By “real-time virtual-real feedback” I mean our ability to place cheap sensors in the real world that feed data into online services in real-time, and thus affect people’s behavior in the real world. Behaviors which the sensors then feed back into the virtual environments, in a never-ending loop. <\/p>\n

“Quantifying the unquantifiable” might have read, for clarity: “Quantifying those aspects of the real world which were formerly<\/em> unquantifiable”, but that was a tad too long to fit. And yes, I do realise that the idea of “the real” as something separate from human culture is contested. A bridge is an objectively real structure yet it arises from human culture, for instance — but we only wish to cross a bridge if it rests on immutable and objectively real laws of physics and geometry. Thus, “the real”.<\/p>\n

Those outside of the arts and humanities may wonder why I included the most basic layer. It’s because the research shows that many of our academics are still very much dragging their feet<\/a> in the use of even basic digital tools, and it seems to me to be part of the digital humanities project to hope to bring them into the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the Huffington reports that… “The backlash against so-called ‘Digital Humanities’ (DH) has begun in earnest,” I thought I’d spend …<\/p>\n

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