Burdick et al. “One: Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 129.“It is important that review committees recognize the
iterative nature of digital projects, which may entail
multiple reviews over several review cycles, as projects
grow, change, and mature.“
This particular quote under the “Development, Sustainability, and Ethics” section piqued my attention because of the constant changes in humanistic expression throughout history. This holds as the first recorded data of human linguistic discovery was reviewed and changed to fit that period compared to the 21st century where we now share information through the digital world. This rapid change in communication was a significant step in social and cultural boundaries crossing paths with one another leading to the discovery of the different concepts that we currently know now.
At first glance of the quote, I asked myself how as humans can we change concepts from the old to the new as people are always questioning concepts that are deemed to be the norms of society and the digital humanities class teaches exactly that. The inevitable changes in concepts but keeping the basis of the original based off has always bothered me as I am not fond of changes but in this class, I hope to grasp the reasons why people desire changes in concepts.
My final thoughts on this quote are that I hope to see the changes occur as I continue to explore the different possibilities and concepts the world has to offer and also want to learn something new about the world that I haven’t touched upon through the digital world as my interest has always stemmed from my interest of technology, so the possibility of discovery of the past and future through a computer screen will be something I look forward too.
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I found your question on how humans can change concepts from the old to the new very interesting. I like that you don’t like change but challenged yourself by taking a digital humanities class which is based in change. This quote really interests me as well because of its scientific connotation. Multiple revisions and reviews cycles is a practice commonly associated with the natural sciences, but here it is in reference to the digital humanities. That is not to say that social scientists and humanists do not review and revise, but the language used to describe what they do vs what natural scientists do is just becoming more and more similar, and one could ascribe this change to digital humanities.
I’m quite the opposite. I tend to like the way the outlook on different things change throughout time and locations. In my opinion, it’s fun to trace back to things that were the first, especially when the first is not clearly defined, to see what changed and what hasn’t changed. So in all I’m also excited that we get to look at the past and future when considering digital arts and the humanities.
I resonate with this quote a lot too. An example is with the die lab that we just completed. I had a lot of trouble at first, so I underwent many cycles and changes in my project before I got to the finished project. Going through these changes is good and an important part of the digital projects process.