humanistic ways of doing and thinking might be brought to bear in the domains of knowledge retrieval, curation, and use.
It can be a very powerful means of cultural survival for at risk cultures and languages.
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How might techniques like probabilistic modeling, interpretive mapping, subjective visualizations, and self-customizing navigation alter our experience of the digital realm and the character of the Web as a public domain
How does this in turn affect social change within the communities and/or the audiences interacting with them, and will this be part of what is mapped and measured?
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Cultural differences can arise with partnering institutions, as well as across national and international communities of participants.
We must also think of the different power scales that may be involved in cross-cultural partnerships and how that may affect the weight of partner influence even within a seemingly "level" digital arena.
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opportunities to once again make explicit the value of humanistic modes of inquiry, thought, and creativity.
Within disciplines like history, digitization has opened up new areas of research, due to how easy it is to google a subject you are investigating and find it in previously obscure or unavailable texts and databases.
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The visual does not necessarily represent an advance over the capabilities of text. It is simply a different, distinct medium for thinking, com-municating, and working, with its own rigors and histories, its own skill-sets and language, and its own freedoms and constraints
It can be argued that there is a modern hegemony of vision which makes this distinct medium not "simple" at all. How has the ease of digital representation changed the way that we perceive, process and prioritize information?
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present form
Though it can be argued that the present form is changing - at my previous university, interdisciplinary majors and clustered research areas were very much the new dominant mode of development, across the board (in humanities and sciences). There was a great deal of tension and backlash from traditional disciplines, and I would not be surprised to see that argument carrying over into the arguments regarding digital humanities.
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Generative Humanities
This is the first time I've encountered this term, and it's good to see generative theory being applied to the humanities. I'm hoping the theoretical background will explained further - I'm curious which disciplines' use of generative theory have contributed to their mode of practice.
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vAILABILITy
Page vii spoke of design as one of the important elements of the Digital Humanities, yet this section of the page is very hard to read (at least for these older eyes!). It's easy to forget that the medium itself becomes very important in digital work - this kind of capitalization and spacing of the letters on the page as a visual element may work well in a book, but when read on a computer screen becomes distracting, especially due to the difference in light. If digital work is to be truly available, and accessible to all users, the limitations of the media and the challenges of different sectors of the audience should be kept in mind.
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