LIBA 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Digital Humanities, Google Ngram Viewer

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

Document Summary

-opportunity to have people with skills for critical reflection to engage more in contemporary debates. -criticism: not encouraged to produce content circulated in a digital context that reflects your interests, etc. -tendency to fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) s(cid:373)all (cid:272)orpus (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause that"s (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e thi(cid:374)k (cid:373)atters; ho(cid:449) to study (cid:449)orld literature? we tend to ask narrow questions, specificities; tendency to shy away from generalization. -we can now ask larger questions because we have technology to do so (google ngram. -courses available in digital humanities at mcgill: students should be more comfortable with producing digital content in service of the humanities; interactive visualizations as a mode of argumentation. -not about providing irrefutable evidence but about advancing an argument in digital form. -new opportunities for new kinds of knowledge, asking different types of questions. -how can the humanities engage with public contemporary society.