ThAct : Digital humanities

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What is Digital Humanities ?

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. DH can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing. It brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution.

Learning outcomes of edx Mooc on introduction of Digital Humanities.

Edx Mooc Overview

Introduction to Digital Methods for the Humanities will orient and train you in a wide variety of software tools and techniques that allow humanists and social scientists to ask new research and teaching questions and make new claims using data.

The edx will:

• Provide an orientation to digital humanities and what that means in different disciplines.
• Introduce a variety of digital humanities projects and tools.
• Teach skills related to command line functions and text analysis.

With  this digital humanities include scholars, librarians and archivists, museum curators, and other professionals who want to showcase a body of work for academic or public purposes using digital tools of analysis.

Activity 

We have to go to this site

https://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance?conc-q=&conc-subset=all&conc-type=whole&kwic-span=-5%3A5&table-filter=&table-type=basic.

Here we need to type Austen into the corpora box and select each of Austen’s novels.Then Choose the subset “Quotes”. You need to Search for one more cluster 

is it used in context.This will give you a list of keywords for Austen in comparison with Dickensdown the left hand side, ordered by their degree of difference from the Dickens corpus. Compare the two keyword lists and try to find words that seem relevant to setting and atmosphere and there is the final result of it.

Thank you...