Digital Humanities

What is digital Humanities?

The digital humanities is an area of research, technique and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. developing from the field of  humanities computing, digital humanity embraces a variety of topics ranging from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital humanities currently incorporates both digitized and both digital and born digital materials and combines the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines such as history, philosophy, linguistic, literature, art, archaeology, music and cultural studies.

 What D.H doing at Eng. Dept.?

First, after numeric input , text has been by far the most traceable data type for the computers to manipulate. Unlike audio, video, and so on.

Second, there is  the long association between computers and compositions, almost as long and just as rich lineage.

Third, it is a modest but much promoted belle-altruistic project around hypertext and other forms of electronic literature that  continues this day and is increasingly vibrant and diverse.

Yes there is need to do more research in the field of literature because through the use of technology in the field of criticism we get do a lot better thing. For example no one can read text book of hundreds of year, but by making digital text we can evaluate  thousands of texts. For example which word is most use in that particular book is possible to know through this.

Ergodic discourse is a Greek word means ‘Ergos’= work, and Hodos= path.

Cyber texts are  not exclusively electronic or digital. A machine for the production of variety and expression. Traditional reader simply does not have the same degree of influence.

Games are labyrinths and worlds, rather than representations. Text as a machine with different parts and users.

This is great help in our regional languages, for example we can create digital text and do research in this.