the question what is Digital Humanities? Great question, he seems to ask a lot of great questions, but in all seriousness from what I have learned in a short amount of time Digital Humanities is a complicated, diverse, and relatively new area of study.
My interpretation of Digital Humanities is that it the study of interloping humanities and research to make information better available. In addition, Digital Humanities focuses on the combination and exploration of all the different art forms of humanities. This study is an art form or even a way of life, especially in the media ridden world we live in today. Digital Humanities is born online in the non physical world so it is like a chain link of knowledge so one can just jump from page to page no matter how different the humanities are. For instance, if someone is doing research on classical paintings they may have to get another book just to understand the definition of a key term unless it is listed on the page. Compare that to the digital world there are hyper links or one can just simply copy and paste the word into Google to find the meaning. The digital aspect of research is much more compelling and less time consuming. Music has benefited greatly from Digital Humanities because it allows one to edit or change the pitch or tone of someone's voice recording. Compare that to 25 years ago this was not plausible. An artist would have to make an absurd amount of recordings of just one song because the technology would not be able to alter one small thing to make the song what it needed to be. Now, with the flick of a finger it can make someone seem like they could sing like Barry White instead of some wannabe American Idol hopeful. Essentially computers are like an extension of us, so we just have to guide them in the direction we want to go.
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