One of the things that digital tools allows us to do is visualize complicated data. We’ve seen this with Voyant Tools and text analysis. And we saw this way back with the number crunching that was part of the Pew Research Center’s work. Digital technology helps us with methodology–how we know what we know–in terms […]
continue readingDiscourse Analysis and Text Mining
This semester, we’ve theorized that media is a relationship rather than a thing. As we present our resarch we need to be cognizant of how we are (1) conveying our knowledge to and audince and (2) how we are relating or putting our ideas together in the first place. We’ve spent a lot of time […]
continue readingDeconstructing Convergence Culture
Throughout this semester, we have discussed various trends in media. Of course, last week, we theorized that “media” is not a thing but a relationship, not an institutionalized essence but the terms and conditions by which people connect (or disconnect) from each other. Doing so allowed us to reimagine how web design (e.g. UX/UI and […]
continue readingTheorizing Media
Thus far, we’ve developed some theories related to digital humanities to enhance our understanding of “religion in culture” and social formation. So religion is something that can be studied using the same tools and methods that our peers employ throughout the rest of the university when they too study human behavior, for whatever else you […]
continue readingRedescription and Remediation
We’ve spent the last few weeks excavating the internet. As you were building your websites, you moved from being a history of the internet to a student-scholar of it. Like an archaeologist, we arrived at a site with questions about the people who occupied it. Imagine the internet as a ruin from an era gone […]
continue readingA DH Home-Base
I imagine that as you’ve gotten a taste of the backend of web design you’ve come to realize that there is a lot that goes into a “WYSIWYG” approach to the digital domains. In fact, the very idea that one must spell out “what you see is what you get” suggests there was a time […]
continue readingBlogging, What is it good for?
Blogging may seem like a strange place to begin a class that claims to prepare you for using 21st century- technologies. Isn’t blogging dead? The question presumes that our conversation about the digital humanities is about relevant tools. However, we are talking about the role of digital technology in social realities, relationships, and the research […]
continue readingThe data tells us…
Smart people love to talk about data. Data, simply put, is the information that enables us to make intelligent decisions about how matters are. Data comes in many forms–some of which we will discuss in today’s class. We’ll look at qualitative data (e.g. words) and quantitative (e.g. numbers) data. We’ll even talk about big data […]
continue readingLet’s dive right into the digital, shall we?
Welcome to Class 0. Today we are going to make space within which we can explore, experiment, and build in the field of religious studies. And as advertised, we’re going to use digital tools every step of the way. But first, the logistics… In your email, you are going to receive a link from REL […]
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