Thinking Activity : Digital Humanities

Thinking Activity : Digital Humanities

Hello readers!

                            Here I am going to write Blog about the Digital Humanities. This is our thinking Activity given by Dilip Barad sir, Department of English Bhavnagar University.

What is " Digital Humanities"

                            " Digital Humanities is an academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history and philosophy".

                            Digital Humanities means computer assisted literary study since the invention of computers, it knows only one language that is English. Thus English department and digital world are directly connected and digital technique can applied to other humanities field as well.

How Digital Humanities used in our study 

                         Digital Humanities is an area of scholarly Activity at the intersection of computring or digital technologies and the Disciplines of the Humanities, it includes the systematic use of digital resources the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. 

                             Digital Humanities is many banifit in our studies and life. The goal of digital Humanities is to create scholarship that transcends textual sources. A growing number of researchers in digital Humanities are using computational methods for the analysis of large cultural date such as the Google books computer. 

What is it doing in English Department? 

                              My English department the live example of Digital Humanities. I am the student of English Department, MKBU university, Bhavnagar, Gujarat and I am studying under the guidance of Dilip Barad sir, Head of the English Department, MKBU university. 

                             We are the students of English literature. We have to deal with arts and literature including poetry, drama, novels, criticism etc. Than one may ask the question what computers are useless for you students no its not.

Conclusion : 
   
                            Digital Humanities is visible in another way the social networking service twitter as a students we can ' tweets' regarding study, syllabus and unlike, facebook, twitter allows for asymmetrical relationship.