As our experience with digital humanities is coming to an end, this final blog will show how the combination of two different worlds: humanities and technology helped us throughout our journey. To start with, the class was divided into groups where each group chose an author or a topic to base the whole research on.Continue reading “Blog 5: Reflection on our Final DH project”
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BLOG 4: Experiences with TimelineJS
By what means do you usually present information and facts? Through PowerPoint maybe? Too mainstream… Have you ever heard of Timeline JS? It makes the perfect substitute. It’s a Google spreadsheet that presents events in chronological events and presents information in a way that makes it visually rich through an interactive timeline. Created by theContinue reading “BLOG 4: Experiences with TimelineJS”
Mapping Literary Texts with Google My Maps: Bringing Fantasy to Real Life
Google My Maps is an application used to create customized maps online, as a visual data-organizer, allowing researchers to view their data in a map on their research material. As a mapping application in general, it is extremely beneficial for analyzing texts with real locations. As you will see, Google My Maps can also bringContinue reading “Mapping Literary Texts with Google My Maps: Bringing Fantasy to Real Life”
Blog 2 : My Experience with CLiC and Voyant Tools
Think about your favorite character. Is he a superhero? Or is he a narcissistic philanderer in ad sales? Do you root for the man cooking the meth or the DEA agent trying to stop him? Do you root for the savior or the criminal? You’ve probably seen and heard about the “Joker” Movie that broke WorldwideContinue reading “Blog 2 : My Experience with CLiC and Voyant Tools”
Blog 1 : My journey with the digital world
There are no specific definition for digital humanities, in general it is an academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy. Being born in the late 90’s I experienced the evolution of digital humanities during my whole life. The instruments used likeContinue reading “Blog 1 : My journey with the digital world”