On the first day of my Digital Humanities class, I thought that the term “digital humanities” was going to have one simple definition. We first started off class by defining each word individually. The word digital can be expressed as a series of digits, such as zeros and ones. Humanities is defined as the study of humans. Then within just a few short minutes of being in class, I had learned that the this term, digital humanities can be defined in more ways that I could tell you in this short blog post. If you don’t believe me, check out the website What is Digital Humanities. The way that I would personally define digital humanities would be the interaction of humans through a digital outlook. For example, everything from electronic literature to social media can be grouped under digital humanities because it is humans interacting with technology. Digital humanity works can be described as either born digital or digitized. Born digital means that it was originally produced in digital form. However, digitized works are ones that have been changed from a printed text to a digital text. Digital humanities is a broad field that is continuously becoming more popular.
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