DH200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Roberto Busa, User-Generated Content, Digital Humanities
6 Apr 2019
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Digital humanities emerged through the early work of people like roberto busa and. Computing power brought to bear on traditional work in the humanities. Focus often on the research side ( or preservation and access) and both research and presentation were often offline". Began to change in the 2000s with advent of web 2. 0 and ubiquity of personal computers. Increased storage of information and it meant that from the internet there is a strong transition from text to design. Reader did not interact or contribute to sites. User generated content social media, a lot more interactive ( not just reading content) contributing to it as well. Digital humanities have developed alongside advancement in computing more broadly. Benefit now of decades of experimentation and innovation in research practices and web development. Great variety and saturation of online and offline tools some more designed for scholarly work often adapted to it. How humanities are practiced and results are disseminated.
