What is digital humanities ? What's doing into English departments?

Gond Asmita K. Roll no 1st Paper : 7th ( Literary theory and criticism)

Topic: What is digital humanities? And What’s doing it into the English department

Class: M.A.—1 Sem—2

P.G.Enrollment no : pg14101017

E-mail-Id : [email protected]

Submitted to : Department of English M.K. Bhavnagar University

What is Digital Humanities?

Definition

“ The digital humanities is an area of research of

computing and the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the

humanities.”

Computing

Intersection of computing

Disciplines of the

humanities

Digital Humanities incorporates both digitized and born

digital materials. It also combines

methodologies from the traditional humanities

disciplines.

Means

Methodologies from the traditional humanities

History

Linguistic

Art

Music

Literature

Social science

Archaeology

Philosophy

Cultural studies

Tools of publishing

computing &

Information

Retrieval

Statistics

Com

puta

tiona

l an

alys

is

Data

visua

lizati

on

Data mining

What’s doing digital humanities in English departments

• For research in various fields has increased the wide use of Digital humanities which makes Stylistic, linguistic and author attribution studies

For research in various fields has increased the wide use of Digital humanities which makes Stylistic, linguistic and author attribution studies

English Departments

Stylistic

Linguistics

Author Attribution

studies

According to John Smith Computer criticism

divided into two parts

Textual manipulation

Analysis

and

specific

work of

literature

Dictionaries, concordances Thematically analysis,

stylistic studies

Reason for including D. H. in English department

Association

between compute

r and composit

ion

Makes stylistic by using audio, video and

images

D.H in Eng.

Department

sUsing

hypertext and other

electronic

literature

E-books &E-

reading

Kindle, Ipad,Noo

k

Large scale text digitized

projects

Google books

Distant reading

According to Moreti taking

‘Taking Data mining and Visualization’

“Distant reading”

Hundreds and thousands or even millions of books at one time

What is technology

Technology

Medium of transmission

Medium of performan

ce

As a author or co

author

What is Vook?• Vook is a new innovation in reading that blends a

well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the internet into a single complete story.

You can read book watch video by

connected with authors and your friends

through social media .All in one

screen.

Vook is in two forms: ‘Web

based application’ and

‘Mobile application’

Matthew Jockers micro analysis

Method of comparing 3,592 books during 1780-1900.

Written by authors from Britain ,Ireland and America

Used techniques like Authorship

attribution analysis

Done grouping interpretations

of different works.

Works like Jane Austen, Walter

Scottie, The white Tiger etc.

This analysis only possible if the

texts are in digital form.

‘’The traditional practice of close reading we allow us to look at the bark of tree, while micro analysis allow us to see whole forest’’

It is a approach to the study of literary records in “big data” literary studies.

According to Geoffrey Rockwell

• In “Gore Galore : Literary Theory and computer games.”

• Geoffrey Rockwell provides brief history another history emergent types of game. Which were not theorized.

• So he develops computer games and theory.• Based on Bhaktin's poetics of novels shows

rhetorical artifacts well suited for critical study.• Different people have different experience very

few have same sign and interpretation.

Human Culturomics• “Through our scopes, we see ourselves. Every

new lenses is also a new mirror”• The word “I want” is compared to “I need”

I “want” is compared with “I need”

Now it is Cleared that

• Computer – assisted text analysis many parallel the history using electronic text can be thought of as the systematic investigation of the development and transformations of “meaning systems.”

• Sometimes this tradition not suited well for computer development

Conclusion

Computers will make a much larger impact on literature when new questions and data types are addressed and when computers are used to do things that humans are either incapable of or that are simply too time consuming. Faculty also

Computer only included into science and commerce but now it is included successfully into arts

Thank you