Tag Archives: new york times
Leah Price, “You Are What You Read”
Price takes down the NEA’s report, “to read or not to read,” which draws correlation between readers and those who are fit, active, happy, kinder, better citizens. However, the report narrows reading to reading for “literary experience,” excluding reading done … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #6: “Digital Maps are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land”
This last article introduces the spatial humanities, or humanists who consider geographical and physical space and its effect on and its own history, especially using DH tools. This allows for new cultural questions to be asked about context. Cohen, Patricia. … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #5: “Giving Literature Virtual Life”
This article considers the ways in which DH is being used in the classroom, from the ability to construct and visit physical spaces virtually to the argument for a digital senior thesis. Of course, she considers the opposition again, concerns … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #4: “Scholars Recruit Public for Project”
In this article, the project of focus is the Bentham project at University College London, which has opened transcription of a huge number of documents that would normally only be seen by an academic few to the general public in … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #3: “In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture”
Here, Cohen looks at Google’s word-cataloging project, which is part of the process of digitizing all books for Google books, and the research that is possible from it. Similar to the last one, she still seems eager to assuage the … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #2: “Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers”
In this article, Cohen looks at one project which is digitizing and statistically analyzing Victorian book titles in order to generate the frequencies and trends in particular words over the era. Funded by a Google grant, this project opens the … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #1: “Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches”
Cohen’s NYT article introduces the digital humanities and some scholars’ opinions about it. Digital humanities opens up new possibilities for data keeping, data sharing (even across disciplines), and data analysis. However, this article seems to think of digital humanities as … Continue reading
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