presentation on Digital Humanities and what it is doing in English Department

1. Prepared by : Latta Baraiya
Sem : 3 (M.A.)
Topic : Digital Humanities in English
Department
Email id : lattabaraiya1204@gmail.com
Department of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. ❏ Digital Humanities
❏ What it is doing in
English Department ?
❏ Examples of Digital
Humanities
❏ Why we need digital
Humanities ?
Table Content

3. ● It is field of study, research, teaching and invention
concerned with the intersection of computing and
disciplines of the humanities.
● Digital Humanities is converting data to an
accessible digital formal one grain of stand at a
time.
● It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and
presentation of information in electronic form.
● It includes the systematic use of digital resources in
the humanities, as well as the analysis of their
application.
What is Digital Humanities ?

4. DH is a research paradigm that encompasses all kind of
research in the Humanities that gains (normally partly) its
findings from applying computer-based procedures,
practices, and tools. I am usually refering to Manfred
Thaller who expressed this more elaborately. What is
important to me, however, is the fact that DH in this
understanding is pure Humanities scholarship as its
objects and questions are those from the Humanities. I
have always been thinking that any researcher should
naturally look out for the very best methods and tools to
conduct their research, i.e. those that serves best to find
the answers he or she is looking for.
Malte Rehbein explain that,

5. Digital Humanities in English Department
● What’s It Doing in English Departments?
● In the article Cynthia says,
People who say that the last battles of the computer revolution in
English departments have been fought and won don’t know what
they’re talking about. If our current use of computers in English studies
is marked by any common theme at all, it is experimentation at the most
basic level. As a profession, we are just learning how to live with
computers, just beginning to integrate these machines effectively into
writing- and reading-intensive courses, just starting to consider the
implications of the multilayered literacy associated with computers.
- Cynthia Selfe

6. ● Today, we see the simultaneous
explosion of interest in e-reading and
e-book devices like the Kindle, iPad,
and Nook and the advent of large-scale
text digitization projects, the most
significant of course being Google
Books, with scholars like Franco Moretti
taking up data mining and visualization
to perform “distance readings” of
hundreds, thousands, or even millions
of books at a time.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum gave the six reasons
what DH doing in English Departments :-

7. ● The openness of English
departments to cultural
studies, where computers
and other objects of digital
material culture become the
centerpiece of analysis

8. ● A modest but much-
promoted belle-lettristic
project around hypertext
and other forms of
electronic literature that
continues to this day and
is increasingly vibrant and
diverse.

9. ● The pitch-perfect
convergence between the
intense conversations
around editorial theory
and method in the 1980s
and the widespread
means to implement
electronic archives.

10. ● Unlike images, 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 systems and
that has for decades fed research in
fields like stylistics, linguistics, and
author attribution studies, all heavily
associated with English departments.
Input in English is the reason that
connects DH with English
departments.

11. ● There is the long
association between
computers and
composition, (computer
friendly) almost as long and
just as rich in its lineage.

12. Some examples of Digital Humanities
● Auto generated e-certificate
● E-portfolio
● Clic activity
● Clic Dickens project
● Cloud image of words
● Kahoot (quiz and it's answers
and getting scores)
● performance charts (Classroom,
presentation)
● Data analysis
● Searching tools

13. ● The final communique of the Paris
Ministerial Conference set a new focus on
the possibilities of digitalisation
Digitalisation plays a role in all areas of society and we recognise its
potential to transform how higher education is delivered and how
people learn at different stages of their lives. We call on our higher
education institutions to prepare their students and support their
teachers to act creatively in a digitalised environment. We will
enable our education systems to make better use of digital and
blended education, with appropriate quality assurance, in order to
enhance lifelong and flexible learning, foster digital skills and
competences, improve data analysis, educational research and
foresight, and remove regulatory obstacles to the provisionof open
and digital education.

14. In article the reasons why we need independent digital Humanities,
● We assume that we should be able to exploit the results of new methods
without having to learn much and without rethinking the skills that at least
some senior members of our field must have
● We focus on the perceived quality of Digital Humanities work rather than
the larger forces and processes now in play (which would only demand
more and better Digital Humanities work if we do not like what we see)
● We assume that we have already adapted new digital methods to existing
departmental and disciplinary structures and assume that the rate of
change over the next thirty years will be similar to, or even slower than,
that we experienced in the past thirty years, rather than recognizing that
the next step will be for us to adapt ourselves to exploit the digital space of
which we are a part.
Why we need Digital Humanities ?

15. ● We assume that new research will look like research that we would
like to do ourselves
● We may support interdisciplinarity but the Digital Humanities
provides a dynamic and critically needed space of encounter
between not only established humanistic fields but between the
humanities and a new range of fields including, but not limited to,
the computer and information sciences (and thus I use the Digital
Humanities as a plural noun, rather than a collective singular)
● We lack the cultures of collaboration and of openness that are
increasingly essential for the work of the humanities and that the
Digital Humanities have proven much better at fostering
● We assert all too often that a handful of specialists alone define
what is and is not important rather than understanding that our
fields depends upon support from society as a whole and that
academic communities operate in a Darwinian space.

16. References
● Berti, Monica. Crane, Gregory. Humboldt, Alexander
Von. “Seven Reasons Why We Need an Independent
Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities,
https://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/seven-reasons-why-
we-need-an-independent-digital-humanities/.
● Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. What Is Digital
Humanities and What's It Doing in English
Departments. ADE Bulletin, Nov. 2010.
● Paris Communiqué and Statement. Ministerial
Conference Paris (2018). Retrieved from
http://www.ehea.info/page-ministerial-conference-
paris-2018

17. ● Rehbein, Malte, and Malte Rehbein. “What Is
Dh?” Denkstätte,
https://denkstaette.hypotheses.org/61.
● Selfe, Cynthia. “Computers in English
Departments: The Rhetoric of Technopower.”
ADE Bulletin 90 (1988): 63–67. Web. 2 Aug.
2010.

18. Thank
you