What is Digital Humanities?

What is Digital Humanities? Well, Digital Humanities has a lot to do with a computer, and also people. Digital Humanities is basically a big melting pot of research and studies, and different things in that nature that all crossover with humanities. Humanities is plural for humanity which means the human race. Digital Humanities involves you being able to research, understand that research, then being able to come up with your own idea, and present that in electronic form. If someone is unfamiliar with a Computer, you can get around that.

In Digital Humanities there a tons of forms of electronic literature this is a big example of Digital Humanities. Everyone can interact with this because this is the designed purpose. In Digital Humanities you come across the question Digitized, or Born Digital. So what are these two things? Born Digital is when you create something on a computer, for example a form of electronic literature, when you do this it is born into the internet universe. Digitized is simply put scanning a newspaper article onto the computer. It was not born into the internet universe, but you made it a part of it by scanning its hard copy form into electronic form, hereby making this digitized.

So again what is Digital Humanities?
To conclude, it is researching understanding the research forming your own opinion, and presenting this in a digital form. This is what I hope you can take away from this blog post, because this is most important.