Blogs, DH Keywords

Blog#11:DH Keywords by Mpenzi Campbell

According to Mark Sample article,  Digital Humanities is about us sharing information but doing so on a good balance scale. I do agree with the idea of the exchange of information but I do think that the information should be vetted. The importance of vetting information is for the sole purpose of credibility and authenticity.

Just as in the case of Katherine Fitzpatrick creating Media Commons for MLA’s office of scholarly communication I do think that she would be listed as one of the people who would be considered one of the pioneers with digital humanities. We should not have any great expectation on the MLA because it is new and they would have to do many changes for it to be will structure.
Scholarly wikis should be produced as companion pieces to printed books because we have a new generation who only knows and is comfortable with digital books. Also, it takes a longer time for books to printed because it has to be edited and approved by the publishing house, etc. what the wikis companion would do is provide the information at a faster pace for readers.

The three words I would use to define Digital Humanities are sharing, collaboration and new methodologies. We are no longer stymied by a few selected writers etc. to provide information to us. Digital Humanities are about sharing the information to the masses whether by Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc. the information is being distributed on a much evenly. The information is now being distributed by many and collectively that is how the digital humanities have grown worldwide.

2 Comments

  1. Mpenzi
    I sort of agree with what you said that information should be vetted but I think that takes away from the collaboration and sharing aspect of Digital Humanities. How would the information being vetted be conducted is my question?

  2. Mpenzi, I agree with Brandon here. I think this comes down to very carefully defining Digital Humanities as a scholarly field, and not just as digital technology. This doesn’t mean we won’t use things like FB and Twitter, but our purposes for using them are different.

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