DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Introduction: As we know 'digitization' and 'humanities' both are differing in context as well as in meaning and tendency. Humanities and digitization, both are intersected with one another, they former means 'computing' the latter represents 'disciplines of humanities' which has relevance with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Let us see what "DH" is doing in 'English Departments, with half a dozen of reasons, and actually what is "DH" and if it can be utilized in indian languages or not.
DH
DIGITAL HUMANTIES is given many names such as 'humanities computing', 'humanistic computing', how both are intersected with each other as discussed above and how finally drawn towards "DIGITAL HUMANITIES".
DH involves teaching, researching, creation and invention. Its very nature is methodological and has scope in its disciplines. It studies how the media has corrupted these disciplines and in turn what these disciplines has provided to media in the form of literary information and how both can be parallely travel towards digi+humane world, with flexible integration. Disciplines such as History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psycology, Humanity, linguistics, styles, music and many more can be considered. While in 'digitization' the required information is utilized and transformed into knowledge with the help of 'data mining tools'.
There are 'six reasons' of why digital humanities is in English department.
Reason No-1
After numeric input, there was text based data processing system, which was tractable unlike images, videos and audios. While it is a long tradition of text based data processing system, which was also within the capabilities even of some of the earliest computer systems, and that has for decades fed research in linguistics, styles and author attributive studies.
As aforementioned stanza says the computer language was at first numeric, and after it was text based. But with the help of text, a meaning was conveyed to any variable and it has to function or work accordingly, if ethically it is right or wrong doesn't matter, depends on one who is operating rather than who is benefitting or mutilating. While it also emphasise on "writing record" rather then "phonocentricity". As it has excluded(the computer wasn't able to process those images, videos and audios, as it was able to process the text based data, and with the help of which command was given to the respective variable.
For example : c+++ / Java / Python languages. Prior to this war trajectories were created to fought against enemies, and a digitized psychologist was made in it who was studying, analyzing the character, and as per her / his synthesized probable hypothesis giving the solution to any 'psychological ill people'.
Here you can refer by tapping on link, how computer ethics is having it's long journey, starting with exercising/practices of vivid humanities, and then coming to cybernetics and internet.
Reason No-2
Computer constitutes composition
There is the long association between computers and compositions, almost as long and just as rich in its lineage.
As computer and composition are coassociated both are interdependent on one another. With mixture of both a task can be carried out healthily.
Perhaps if we assume, human mind can function smoothly on both numbers as well as text (data), which a human is absorbing in him / her and gradually by undergoing process, it is coming out as an information, where and when a need arises, then when it is having any impact / effect on forth coming circumstances it is becoming knowledge...
Reason No-3
Rossetti Archive-Jerome Mc Gann
Which is described as a vehicle for 'applied theory' standing as paradigmatic.
The pitch perfect convergence between the intense conversations around editorial theory and method in the 1980s and the wide-spread means to implement electronic archives and editions very soon after.
Reason No-4
Belle Lettristic Project
Much promoted project around the hypertext and other forms of electronic literature that continues to this day and is increasingly vibrant and diverse.
Reason No - 5
Sony walkman
Openness of the English departments to cultural studies, where computers and other object of 'digital material culture's become the centerpiece of analysis. With which we can record our voice or listen someone's voice, reliable to read study material / to enhance listening skills or to utilize as per our needs, whenever it is needed.
Reason No - 6
E-Reading
An explosion in e-reading and e-books devices, like the kindle, I-pad and nook and the advent of large scale text digitization projects.
If we throw some light on e-reading, on internet, that has now become a small global world, where anytime access is possible, which isn't like physical world, where each facilitative aspect is needed to run our lives. But to just tap by a finger tip and a person is able to go beyond his / her imagination. While it has happened that the more information is, the more it is getting stuck, than processing the information, so a person isn't everytime able to project herself / himself but sometimes with quite maturity he/she has to suppress his / herself.
Obviously it can help very much in research, even it would be more reliable than physically going somewhere and getting, what one is needing. As we saw earlier that it is an aide which help humanity to digitize, but literally not digitizing but making our work nearly handy.
If we see as it is affiliated with "English language" can it possibly get merge into other "Indian Languages"?
Then if we look into the past to the "History of English language" under "the renaissance period" : There're responsible factors, like religions, evolution and revolution of such prevailing things (from 1500 onwards) and so as a result some words were emerged, practised and included in English language and for that needing people's constant practice and exercising of language aspects was fulfilled, else it wouldn't be made possible and so English language evolved as such and made a "digitized status". While the other regional / Indian languages remained static and even wasn't able to go out from their own arena, so how it would be made possible to enjoy such extension of language? That may be remaining a question mark..
Thus we saw here "the constitution of DH", the six reasons of "what DH is doing in English Department" and how Indian languages are seeming ignorant as didn't get inclusion in any rich status or lesser than that as English language is able to acquire.
Thankyou
Samiya Kagdi
A learner at PG center
Department of English
MKBU
APPLIED SOURCES
Barad, D. "Research prospects in Digital Humanities". Dilipbarad.blogspot.com,
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2016/02/research-prospects-in-digital.html.
Krischenbaum, Mathew, G. "What is digital humanities & what is it doing in English departments?" ADE Bulletin (2010):7.
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