April Myint
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April Myint posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Hi professor! Reading your response to Chang, it brings more insight to that point you made where teachers may not know more, instead they are able to bear through the academic writing and present it to their students. In a way, it seems that teachers use skills in DPH in order to translate the academic work for a wide range of students to…[Read more]
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April Myint posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Hi Chang! I like that you defined DPH, but didn’t at the same time. If that confused you, I mean to say that I think you pinpointed the idea of DPH because it is a broad network that bridges the academic and “non-academic” worlds together. This puts less stress on the field of study that would usually be required by the traditional field of…[Read more]
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April Myint posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Hi Brittany! Your definition for DPH is great and I agree that it is a network for the collective to come together with ideas to add and expand, which is of value to humans because “Humans are social creatures.” (A statement I read somewhere in a general psychology textbook freshmen year.) and with DPH comes stimulating academic conversation that…[Read more]
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April Myint posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Stommel’s quote, “Doing public work is different from making academic work public. Available is not always accessible.” means that public work is to educate and help the community understand the desired topic at hand. To recap Lubar’s second rule, a creator in the field of public humanities becomes a well-educated translator that has perfected…[Read more]
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April Myint's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
April,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
You touch on two really important topics, both of which we will discuss more in Module 2: making our work “interesting” and making it “collaborative.”
I think the biggest thing we can do is make our work interesting and engaging. This is how we can make it accessible to anyone. See my response to…[Read more]
Hi professor! Reading your response to Chang, it brings more insight to that point you made where teachers may not know more, instead they are able to bear through the academic writing and present it to their students. In a way, it seems that teachers use skills in DPH in order to translate the academic work for a wide range of students to…[Read more]
Hello April! I really enjoyed reading your response. I agree with many of the points you made and I really like the way in which you draw a connection between Stommel and Lubar’s works. I agree with your claim that academic works are often focused on a certain audience, which is where accessibility comes into play. When making academic work p…[Read more]
Hello April, I agree with your thoughts. The creator does need to consider a certain niche to balance to be available and accessible. As you mention, the goals of public is to educate and help understand. It will be meaningless if it is just an interesting read. Maybe people are willing to read at the beginning, but gradually they will lost…[Read more]
Hi April! I agree with you as well as the response from Professor. More people are going to want to read your work if it is engaging and understood. I think these correlate to it being legible. The reader will not be able to keep interest so the idea of it not being accessible may not matter. I believe casual tone is a great way to minimize this…[Read more]
Hi April,I really like the way you explain the quote from Stommel, especially about translation of academic work. You profess that “To be available and accessible, the creator has to have a certain niche to turn the subject at hand understandable and collaborative to everyone that interacts with the work.” I have the same or similar points abo…[Read more]
Hi April,
I really like your interpretation on Stonmel’s quote. I think it does a great job in showing us how important it is for knowledge to not only be available to the public but understandable and comprehensible to anyone who wants to learn from it. I think you also make a great point when you say that public work must have a certain n…[Read more]