Dig­i­tal Tools and Meth­ods: Ideas and Links

Intro­duc­tion Any medium pow­er­ful enough to extend man’s reach is pow­er­ful enough to top­ple his world. To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain lit­er­acy. Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties is a col­lab­o­ra­tive approach to schol­ar­ship that com­bines tra­di­tional forms of human­is­tic study with infor­ma­tional tech­nolo­gies. The emer­gence and adoption […]

The Web and Building

On Build­ing As many of the stu­dents in Human­i­ties 340 have come to under­stand, one of the key issues in DH revolves around a con­tin­u­ing effort to define what the dig­i­tal human­i­ties is or are. One aspect of this almost per­pet­ual debate that seems to crop up con­sis­tently is the issue of build­ing. Some stu­dents have […]

The Lurker: The Sub­ver­sive, Dis­rup­tive Nature of Readability

Read­abil­ity is a tool that allows the user to turn any web page into a: com­fort­able read­ing view right in your web browser. Too busy to read right then and there? Read­abil­ity makes it sim­ple to save your favorite arti­cles for read­ing later. Read­abil­ity is avail­able for Fire­fox and Chrome as an exten­sion. For Safari, Read­abil­ity comes as […]