DH200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Digital Humanities, Critical Thinking, Fruit Salad
17 Jan 2018
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Not inaccurate: any scholar or any student can be digital humanist. Dn: telling a story through digital means. Humanities particularly well suited to much web content. Explore/employ the two to benefit content and form. Important bridge between academic world and beyond: distinguishing good journalism from fake news. Concerned with studying products of human cultures to understand human condition. Examples: history, philosophy, literary studies, etc. Natural and social sciences study more impersonal forces with clear quantitative methods: humanities more qualitative, but not exclusively so. Renaissance roots: very much transformed today, rediscovery of classical knowledge, writers, poets, etc. and applying, studia humanitatis. Focus on rhetoric, literature, moral philosophy, scepticism history, art and architecture: curricular reform and literacy, libraries, vita acti(cid:448)ia (cid:894)acti(cid:448)e/e(cid:374)gaged life(cid:895) a(cid:374)d (cid:858)grey areas(cid:859) Became the default educational for through to the modern era. Enlightenment notions scientific objectivity challenged and influenced humanities. Today challenged by corporate universities and emphasis on discipline.
