DH200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Humanities, Scriptorium
17 Jan 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Throughout history many tech developments tied to dissemination of information. Lowered costs (eventually) of producing and purchasing: consistency across different version, can refer to specific pages and lines for reference, all copies look the same. Development of printing press, scholars came about the same time and worked off one anothe3r because of this. Growth of literacy and education: books printed in greater consistency and number. Facilitate and influenced work of humanists: textual criticism and rehabilitation, rehabilitation is necessary because scribal error, not durable, languages change, people understood that languages changed over time, concerned with classical world, year 0. Important for government and business; also for news. Potential boon for education: could not send essay or book using telegraph but radio was seen as potential education tool, e. g. lectures broadcasted where there were not schools. Battle between e-(cid:396)eade(cid:396) (cid:858)(cid:272)odi(cid:272)es(cid:859) a(cid:374)d html (cid:858)s(cid:272)(cid:396)olls(cid:859) Over centuries of tech development, scholars/humanists have engaged with and adapted to changes, sometimes encouraging innovation.
