I agree with both of you. I focused my concluding sentences about what it actually means to be available versus accessible. More information needs to be available to the public rather than special focus groups. In Lubar’s article he mentions communities define community. This is a great representation that we as a society are interacting with…[Read more]

Chang,

Thanks for this response!

I think it’s not so much that professors might know more about something, but more that some academic writing isn’t the most engaging or interesting. Unfortunately, academic writing – unlike journalism, or most other forms of writing and communication – doesn’t come with the expectation that it must engage…[Read more]

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]

Hi Chang!

I think you make a number of great points in your response! I personally loved how you stated that “there is a stage and bridge for everyone, and they can share and learn something that they are interested in with non-academic words through conversations.” This is one of the main ideas I got from the blog as well. I believe that…[Read more]

I agree that most of the time academic articles are very wordy and difficult to understand and can make the subject seem much harder than it has to be. Thats why I completely agree with lunar about being a good translator and how that could improve public humanities. Like you mentioned, professors have a much deeper understanding of the field, so…[Read more]