LIBA 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Digital Humanities, Media Studies

• School: McGill University
• Department: Liberal Arts
• Course: LIBA 202
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

-digital humanities: vague and up to interpretation; focus to produce user content. -generations out of wack millennials teach adults about digital world. -formal and informal definitions of education: knowledge in school vs personal experiences. -technology = interconnectivity, knowledge acquisition illusion, accessibility of knowledge. -need for technology in education: world run by efficiency, media studies, mass education, accessibility. -identify expectations of liberal arts course and program at mcgill. -draw from novels: collini (preservation of culture) and nussbaum (responsible democratic citizen) -how to (cid:271)(cid:396)eak stig(cid:373)a that li(cid:271)e(cid:396)al a(cid:396)ts deg(cid:396)ee is (cid:862)useless? (cid:863) -technology as the bridge between sciences and humanities. -potential for technology to contribute to humanities is huge. -video clip: gendered lens to experiences of the humanities.