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Sunday, 23 February 2020

Thinking Activity : Digital Humanities

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      Welcome to my blog. This blog is about Digital humanities.. So let's do some discussion upon it.click here. 







Q-1 Define digital humanies.


         Digital Humanities is an area of research teaching and creation function with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the Humanities human disciplines as history philosophy literature art archaeology music and culture study and also Social Science with tools provided by computing and digital publishing.

   


Q-2  what is doing in English department ?write any three reasons out of six given in article by Matthew G. Kirchenbaum. 

          Digital Humanities which begin as a term of conscientious among a relatively small group of researchers is now back on a growing number off campus by a level of funding infrastructure and administrative commitment that would have been unthinkable even a decades ago.

   Nowadays Digital humanities is very helpful and needful to get knowledge and study.Through it we can get the knowledge and literature of various languages. 


Reason :- 



            First, after numeric input, text has been by far the most tractable data type for computers to manipulate. Unlike image, audio, video and so on,there is a long tradition of text-based data processing that was within the capabilities of even some of the earliest computer system and that has  for decades fed research in field like stylistic, linguistic, and auther attribution studies, all heavily associated with English departments.

       Second reason is that, There is the long association between computer and composition, almost as long and just as rich in its lineage.

         Third reason is that, The pitch - perfect conversions between the intense conversation around editorial theory and method in the 1980s and the widespread means to implement electronic achieves and edition very  soon after ;Jerome McGann is a key figure hear, with his work on the Rosseti Archive, which he has repeatedly described as a vehicle for applied theory, standing as a paradigmatic.


Q-3   Do you think there is any need of it in the study/ research of literature ?


    Yes, it is very helpful.Even it very needful to study and research of literature. Whenever we want some information for study we can easily get information through it. Research of literature is became easier using digital source. 



Q-4   Can it help in study/Research original literature written in local language (Hindi Gujarati English Tamil etc) as it helps in the study of literature in English ?

         Digital humanities is very helpful In study and as well in research also. It also help to study various languages and also literature of various languages. Sometime we compare two different language's literature. 





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