Introductions

  • Early modern Europe history
  • Ethical issues

Digital Humanities

  1. Answering questions about the human condition via digital methods and thinkin
  2. 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