Thinking Activity: Digital Humanities

Hello readers!

  Here on my blog.   This  thinking activity  related  digital humanities.  This task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. He is head  of English  Department   at Maharaja Krishna kumarshihaji bhavnagar University. Some questions  related  this  activity  so  i have try to give  you  answers  of this question.

Question: 1 Define  Digital humanities

Answer:  

An academic  field  concerned with the  application  of computational  tools  and methods  to traditional  humanities  disciplines  such  as literature,  history,  and philosophy.  Introduction to digital  humanities: Click here. 

 ■ Definition  of digital humanities: 

 "The  application  of computational  method  to humanities  research  or to cultural  heritage  , or of humanities  research  methods  to digital  phenomena ." -  Claire Warwick. 

It's  almost impossible  to define the digital humanities.  At the rudest or elementary  level.  The super- discipline  privileges  the manipulation  of data  sets to arrive  at suprious , pseudo- scientific  conclusions  at  the intersection of the  social  sciences and the  humanities. 

Question:2 what is  it doing in English  Department? Write any three reasons  out  of  six given in the article  by Matthew  G. Kirschenbaum. 

Answer:  

  👉《1》  There  is the long association between computers and composition, almost  as long  and just as rich  its lineage. 

 👉《2》 After  numeric  input , text  has been by far the most traceable  datatype of computers  to manipulate. Unlike images,  audio, video  and so on , there is a long tradition  of text based  data  processing that  was within the capabilities of even some of the earliest  computer  systems and  that  has for decades  fed research  in fields  like stylistic,  linguistics,  and  author attribution  studies,  all heavily  associated  with  English  Department. 

👉《3》 we see tge simultaneous  exploration 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.

👉《4》 The openness  of English Department  to cultural  studies,  where computers  and other objects  of digital  material  cultural  become the center  piece of analysis. 

👉 《5》 A  modest  but  much - promoted belle- lettristic project  around  hypertext and  other forms of electronic  literature  that continues  to this day and is increasingly  vibrant and diverse. 

👉 《6》 The  widespread  Mean to implement  electronic  archives. 

Question:3 Do you  think  there is any need of it the study  and research of literature? 

Answer :

   Yes,   digital humanities  is most important  and need for research  and literature. Digital humanities  scholars  use a variety of  digital tools.  Digital  is only  depend of tools.  So many of tools  use in research  and literature.  Digital tools  for research.  Digital humanities  is becoming  increasingly popular  focus  of academic  endeavour. Humanities  centers worldwide.

Question: 4 Can it help in study/ research  of regional  literature  write in local  language ( i.e. Hindi , sanskrit,  Gujarati,Marathi, Tamil, Telugu etc.) As it helps in study  of literature  in English. 

Answer:   yes ,   we can see the example  of Google.   Many of people  use of many languages  in research  and also  in literature.   Digital  is very helpful.  For  example  like wikipedia  website.  This website  many of give  choices  of anguage  for research  and literature . We can see the one image  :

Thank you..
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