WHAT DO I LEARN FROM DIGITAL HUMANITIES
My first day
Digital humanities is a mixture of all humanity subjects. So, from my first day I learnt that it equips to save the humanities to be adapted within the human society, not just simple text analysis. Digital humanities also allows one to more data usage, combining different data source, hyperlink to relevant background materials. I also got to know that computer humanities was established in 1996 and Literacy and Linguistic was established in 1986.Also Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher who translated symbols or chords with the usage of digital humanities which is mainly referred text analysis. Digital humanities have a history with 1,334 articles. It also covers many subject orientations for example mapping ang GIS in geography. Then in Psychology and also sociology it can also come in handy.
Digital humanities also deals with text analysis, software’s and hardware’s. Where a software is a set of instructions, data used to operate computers and execute specific tasks. For example we can take applications such as Grammarly, which is a computer software application that is used for assisting the writer to express ideas written in direct English. And hardware includes the physical parts of a computer.
MY UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE PERSPECTIVES OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES BASED ON THE LECTURES DELIVERED BY DR. VALIUR RAHAMAN
At the time of explaining the history of digital humanities, Prof. Rahaman interpreted problems in global society raised by the failure of technologies and solutions to the problems like safety security, discrimination, prevention of suicide and the role of technology as a digital saviour. He says, "Technology serves humanity when we make technology feel or experience the importance of human values and culture." (2023 LPU) He goes on to quote from the lines from the essay Busa. The next blog will explain these lines. "During World War II, between 1941 and 1946, I began to look for machines for the automation of the linguistic analysis of written texts. I found them, in 1949, at IBM in New York City. Today, as an aged patriarch (born in 1913) I am full of amazement at the developments since then; they are enormously greater and better than I could then imagine. Digitus Dei est hic! The finger of God is here! I consider it a great honor to be asked to write the F...
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