Digital Humanities

 Digital Humanities 

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                            Today going to write about Thinking Activity task given by our Professor Dr. Dilip Barad Sir. This task is about Learning outcome of the edX MOOC on Introduction to Digital Humanities and Thematic Activity from CLiC Activity book. So let's see....

Introduction:

Digital Humanities is a broad field of research and scholarly activity covering not

only the use of digital methods by arts and humanities researchers and collaboration by

Digital Humanities specialists with computing and scientific disciplines but also how the arts

and humanities offer distinctive insights into the major social and cultural issues raised by the

development of digital technologies. Work in this field is necessarily collaborative, involving

multiple skills, disciplines, and areas of expertise.

The use of computers to analyze research data in arts and humanities disciplines such

as literature and history dates back to the 1940s. The University of Cambridge was a pioneer

in the development of humanities computing, with the establishment in 1964 of the Literary

and Linguistic Computing Centre under the chairmanship of Roy Wisbey

The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing. 

So DH connected with art, science, sociology, history and many other subjects. It is the computational or we can say computing system of study. 

•What is the need of Digital Humanities ? 

The question that comes to our mind is, after all What is the importance and need of digital humanities ? So the digital humanities teaches us how to become Real Human being. That humanities sees that people will not become a Robot. 

Digital humanities have a connection with the English departments. These are the reasons given by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum to explain what DH is doing in English Departments. 

• We see the simultaneous explosion of interest in e-reading and e-book devices like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook and the advent of large-scale text digitization projects, the most significant of course being Google Books.

In this activity we have to look at the noun chin. We can find different ways in which the noun is used to describe fictional characters. To begin with, we can check how frequently chins appear in Dickens compared with other authors, or compared with general usage. You can also try !

The other important benefit of this activity is we get any information second with the use of digital humanities. Traditional humanities are very time consuming. But digital humanities take only a few seconds to find the data.