Zooniverse

Currently in our Digital Humanities lectures we have been focusing a lot on ‘Data Curation’. It is defined as follows; ‘ Data curation is a broad term used to indicate processes and activities related to the organization and integration of data collected from various sources, annotation of the data, and publication and presentation of the data such that …

BADHIT

  On my reflection on last year I found it to be an enticing experience that has opened me up to much more things than I had anticipated. Honestly, I didn’t really know what to expect when I first entered the course, I had never heard of ‘Digital Humanities’ and was quite skeptical about the …

QuipuProject

The Quipu project is a new interactive media documentary that I have been introduced to recently, through college. It gives a voice to the impoverished and violated women and men of Peru who were forcibly sterilized throughout the 1990’s under the ruling of president Alberto Fujimori. In the 1990’s the Peruvian government released a new …

Lets not talk about it.

The word 'suicide' is an eye catcher. It grabs everyone's attention. But why that word? Why not 'I'm not feeling very good', 'I hate the way I look', 'I can't get it out of my head'? Maybe if those words don't draw attention or ring alarm bells, what about actions, body language, a change in …

Mr. President

After the shocking result of Donald Trump winning the recent American presidential election I decided to take it upon myself to see what the nation of America saw in this man and why they believed it to be a good decision to elect him as the leader of their country. Mr. Donald Trump was born …

Open Street Mapping

Name: Laura Dadgar Philpott Student Number: 115305436   Open Street mapping   This month’s assignment consisted of part taking in mapping a place in the world through the digital tool that is ‘Open Street Mapping’. The task at hand was to map out four different tiles and validate one other. Initially you are required to …

Discovering digital tools

Name: Laura Dadgar Philpott Student Number: 115305436 The digital tool I chose is ‘Dropbox'. I began my search for a digital tool on ‘dirtdictionary.org' and was surprised to find so many familiar names such as ‘twitter', ‘Tumblr' and ‘Zotero' but I picked ‘Dropbox' because I have previous positive experiences with it. I was first introduced …

Evolution of Storytelling

Ever wonder how these stories of great myths such as 'Oisin in Tir Na Og', 'The apocalypse' or 'The children of Lear' and have survived centuries and yet we can no longer pass a simple message from one end of a line to another in a game of Chinese whispers. What made our pre-assessors so …

Education vs. Technology

The age of education verses technology. It seems that one does not compliment the other but we can change that. Our current education system was developed around the time of the industrial revolution way before the digital age so it’s a battle that will continue until one gives in. Our education system was developed under two …

The Internets Own Boy

Aaron Swartz was someone who saw what you and i saw in our everyday lives but what made him stand out from the rest of us is his never ending curiosity and questioning. We were assigned the task to read the Guerrilla open access manifesto and to say its inspiring would be an under statement. …