Introductions
- Early modern Europe history
- Ethical issues
Digital Humanities
- Answering questions about the human condition via digital methods and thinkin
- Presenting/visualising research to a wider audience
- Traditionally would look at texts/documents one by one to get an understanding over time
- Today can look at how many times the word environment was used across thousands of books
- Compare how common these words are
- Only possible of large digitisation projects over the past 30 years
- Can analyse large amount of content quickly
- Understand types and levels of emotions in texts
What is Digital Humanities
Storytelling!
- Allow us to re-present information
- Data extract from the map != Map itself
- Visualising this data helps us address problems today
- Can help redress injustice and shed light on problems