From my perspective digital history is the use of technology that enables us to research and interpret how the past works with new communication.

I was quite intrigued by this sentence. "Historians might do a great deal of digitizing as a part of their work, but our focus is different from that of the librarian." I was puzzled seeing that they both work with books, But as I continued reading I came to understand that historians investigates past events by considering physical evidence, documentary evidence, and eyewitness testimony whereas a librarian just deals with books solely.

We live in a very technologically inclined world. Thanks to digital history we can now have valuable insights into how the world we live in came to be. Through analyzing sources and artefacts from the past. This helps us to embrace how diverse the world is. Digital history helps us to discover how past societies functioned and why people might have behaved the way they did at different points in time as well as major historical problem such as World War II and 9/11.

Humanities expand our understanding of different human cultures and in this case illnesses. Delivering a broader perspective on the world in which we live. Thanks to modern technology awareness can now be spread quickly. Live Love Hope Love Project is a great project that preserve the great accomplishments of the past, help us to understand the world we live in, and give us tools to imagine the future.

DH encourage creativity that lets us develop innovative thinking. For example Dawes was inspired to create a collection of poetry from the experience and to perform the poems to music. That now enables me to to learn about the past, and make me understand the future.

Digital humanities are especially vital in an interconnected, restless world. They foster a genuine and deep understanding of individual and social justice, an authentic appreciation and admiration for difference, and a thrilling and life-enhancing recognition.

While watching Figure 2, even though the image is pretty, a human cannot possibly comprehend what is being displayed. This image reminds me of an ECG scan result; the only difference is that an ECG scan is readable. "Topic modeling tools are fallible, and if the algorithm isn't right, they can return some bizarre results." So basically, there are some limitations when it comes to topic modeling, and since we are humans, we may have a rather difficult time reading the results. In order for us to get clear, precise results, we need to at least be able to interpret the pretty image with accuracy.

Large amounts of data are collected every day. As more information becomes available, it becomes more difficult to access what we are looking for. So, we need tools and techniques to organize, search, and understand vast quantities of information. That is where topic modeling plays a huge role; it enables a user to manipulate a large amount of data mainly because it provides us with methods to organize, understand, and summarize large collections of textual information, whereas if you use it on a short document, it may lack content.

What I comprehended from this is that topic modeling provides a suite of algorithms that is capable of scanning a set of documents, detecting word and phrase patterns within them, and automatically clustering word groups and similar expressions that best characterize a set of documents.

Metadata is key to ensuring that resources will survive and continue to be accessible into the future, but how can we preserve digital information when it is so fragile? When data is constantly trying to be hacked by malicious people, I recently discovered that anyone can edit Wikipedia. How are we certain that the information on this website is valid? Knowing that digital data is fragile, I feel like we should have an alternative way to preserve information for the future.

Metadata is the key to ensuring that resources will survive and continue to be accessible into the future. What I understood by this is that metadata plays a critical role for the future generation by helping them to discover relevant information about the past and present. For example, in the future, a metadata record could describe a report on a topic like COVID or slavery, a particular edition of the report, or a specific copy of that edition of a report.

Metadata is key to ensure that resources will survive and continue to be accessible into the future. It is not the content of the information surface; it is the information that tells us something about the contents. For example, metadata for phone calls includes: phone number of people, time and date of calls and SMS, duration of calls, the location of the nearest cell tower and for internet activity: the time, date, size, sender, and recipients of emails, time and duration of web connections, IP address and so on.

I interpreted this as white privilege's origins as well as its current ability to influence systemic decisions. They overshadow the fact that white privilege is both a legacy and a cause of racism. And they overshadow the words of many people of color, who for decades recognized white privilege as the result of conscious acts and refused to separate it from historic inequities.

This  paragraph particularly spoke to me. The rapidly changing nature of internet content makes such estimates difficult, as does the changing configuration of racist groups. In many respects, the actual number of sites is less important than their impact. The material posted on such sites has the capacity to disseminate degrading notions of racial inferiority and cause offense as well as humiliation. People tend to get uncomfortable when discussing the reality of racial disparity. After analyzing this article, it is clear that online interactions and the internet continue to only strengthen the views of white supremacists. Racism is not as obvious as it was before, but that does not mean it ceases to exist. Society has been conditioned to believe the color of someone’s skin determines their worth. " When she Googles "black girls," she instead finds HotBlackPussy.com. Google’s retrieval mechanism is not interested in what might be good or true or necessary for an audience of actual black girls, curious about themselves and their world. "Black girls matter only for the role they play in the racist and misogynist fantasies of Google’s majority client: the white American man."