Assignment Digital humanities

                 Assignment

Name : Virani Dhara R.
Course: M. A. English
Semester: 2
Batch: 2019-2021
Roll no: 04
Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English
Paper no: 07
Subject: Literary Criticism
Topic: Digital Humanities and what’s doing in English Department.

 Humanities in the Digital Age:

     In the 21st century, Technology has became progress in each and  every field, most of the work considered into the digitalization, this is we can considered as Digital Age. In medical, bank, office, government works all are access their work thought the help of digital.

    In academic (Educational) world digital process highly affect, it can be helpful to make an education interest, and innovative for both student as well as teacher. For the first phrase of a digital

Revolution in higher education. Much of the teaching and learning apparatus has moved online. Computational technologies and methodologies have transformed research practices in every discipline, leading to exciting discoveries and tools. But, is it useful or applicable in Humanities course. Then the answer is yes!

    For the humanities, the threat of diminished resources has appeared hand-in-glove with the digital turn. The recent events at the University of Virginia demonstrate just how influential the digital paradigm has and there are also available the model of massive open online course (MOOCs) under the development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    As humanities chairs with a long involvement in digital issues, we have clearly seen that top-down budget cuts are often justified. So we believe that humanities faculty members, chairs, and administrators right now have a choice. One option is to take no systematic action on the digital humanities front.

     How can we change the dynamic and create new structures for the humanities to flourish in the digital age? How can we connect the humanities course with digital age? If we connect that how, in which way it my help to assess in humanities. We recommend the following four principles for faculty members, department chairs and administrators to follow in integrating

The digital humanities in the humanities.

• Think departmentally

  In humanities, there are many departments like department of psychology, economics, sociology, English and various language developments, when we think departmentally then it begins with where scholars live and work natively: in their departments, currently, digital  initiatives are predominantly Institutionalized in campus units, library annex programs, or interdisciplinary entities; whereas in departments themselves they spring up by the using of digital tools and they are doing some valuable activities such as writing grant proposals, collaborating on projects, building cyberinfrastructure, creating digital archives, as well as contributing influential non-refereed articles and blog posts, so through this qualitative work, they are train graduate students in digital humanities. And by using digital method or tools to research and teaching then they meet campus standard.

• Think collaboratively

There would be considered the digital humanities are not just a field but a conduit. Digital technologies and media typically require a broad set of methods and skills to carry out as in computational or archival projects that require a broad set of methods and skills to carry out that require the combined expertise of computer – science engineers, social scientists, artist, and humanities to make innovative use of digital tools or platforms, for example astronomically surprised MOOC courses

Distributed Worldwide to ill-defined masses. This is shows how digital platforms play a vital role in humanities course. And by department could be collaboratively work and make the series of lecture as well as also held workshops that expose faculty to digital research and pedagogy elsewhere on campus.

• Thinking computationally

 The humanities departments need more intensive computing power to conduct research in today’s era of large-scale text and data sets. By Using specific technology for the humanities could lead to curricular gains and the result is that the latest technology improves humanities research and teaching together. For example, the Humanities-funded English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)  project in the university of California at Santa Barbara's English department and the Digital History Project, and they also use this facility in online meeting and job interviews and sponsor workshops to keep faculty current on new technologies and methods.

• Think societywide

The field of humanities have enjoyed immense culture authority and interest in every state and community, but in order to maintain, renew, and update associations with the digital age, they must have to connect with technology and digital tools. In all this, digital technologies are a catalyst for change. Already, digital humanists are exploring methods for publishing in open, blog-based ways. Humanities departments can take such initial, imaginative steps as conducting a department wide exercise in revising the departmental web site. So, these all about digitalization in humanities, what’s it doing in English Department.

 What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Department

     As  above mentioned, through this reading we can understand what is “digital humanities” Or “humanities computing”.

      The contours of this professional apparatus are easily discoverable. An organization called the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations hosts a well-attended annual international Conference called Digital Humanities. During this time digital humanities has accumulated a robust professional apparatus that is probably more rooted in English than any other departmental home, one may be reason is that English department follow more freedom than any other department.

  The contours of this professional apparatus are easily discoverable. An organization called the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations hosts a well-attended annual international Conference called Digital Humanities. We have to use electronic discussion lists, such as blogs, Facebook walls, and Twitter feeds, contributing all the flames and exhortations, celebrations and screeds one could wish to read. We could also, of course, simply Google the question. And the Google takes us to Wikipedia, and we can find what we want.

 The digital humanities is the field of study, teaching, researching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. In addition we can also contribute our own knowledge in the online platform. Whoever search regarding this topic can find our information or perspective as well like we can get knowledge or information from online sources. 

   As a working definition this serves as well as any I've seen, which is not surprising since a glance at the Page’s View History tab reveals individuals closely associated with the digital humanities as contributor. At the University of Maryland, where he serve as an associate director at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, we support work from “Shakespeare to Second Life” and this is make searchable in online platform. The United Kingdom’s JISC and the NEH, makes a searchable digital facsimile of each of the thirty-two extent quarto copies of Hamlet available online. And also e-library provide several books, which is worthy for students as well as for readers.

   The real origin of that term, digital humanities was in conversation with Andrew McNeillie. At about the same time the Blackwell’s volume was being put together, the leader ship of two scholarly organizations opened discussions about creating an umbrella entity for themselves and eventually other organizations and association like interests.

   Digital humanities was also big news at the 2009 MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia. On 28 December, midway through the convention, William Pannapacker, one of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s officially appointed bloggers, wrote the following for the online “Brainstorm” Section: “Amid all the doom and gloom of the 2009 MLA Convention, one field seems to be alive and well: the digital humanities. There is a also a notable thing is that, “vitality” Of digital humanities with its “ overflow crowds to too-small conference room”.

    Crucially, digital humanities was visible in another way at the conference: the social-networking service Twitter. Twitter is the love-it-or-hate-it Web 2.0 application often maligned as the final triumph of the attention-deficit generation because it limits posting to a mere 140 characters, not 140 words Unlike Facebook, Twitter allows for asymmetrical relationship.

   In the, English departments to cultural studies, where computers and other objects of digital material culture become the centrepiece of analysis. Of course most significant is that Google Books, with scholars like Franco Moretti taking up data mining and visualization to perform “distance reading” of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of books at a time.

    Whatever else it might be then, the digital humanities today is about a scholarship that is publicly visible in ways to which we are generally unaccustomed. That is the benefits to available or active 24/7 life online, this is also beneficial for humanities course especially English department.

Works Cited :

• Bobley, Brett. “What’s in a Name: NEH and ‘Digital Humanities.’” Message to the author. 12 Apr.2010.

• “Digital Humanities.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia, 2 Nov. 2010. Web. 2 Aug. 2010.

• Howard, Jennifer. “The MLA Convention in Translation.” Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle of Higher Educ., 31 Dec. 2009. Web. 2 Aug. 2010.