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Faith Coggin posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Hey Brittany!
I completely agree with your definition and I wouldn’t have been able to put it in as good of words as you did haha. I think that in this time during the pandemic the digital public humanities is so important to have to keep us all in touch and stay sane. It s nice having a network where we have our own platform to communicate on…[Read more]
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Faith Coggin posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
I would define the “digital public humanities” pretty closely to the way that Jesse Stommel described it as being an ever shifting online network that brings together technology, the public and the humanities. It is not so much about a school type of education but rather an education based on ones interests and passions that they enjoy edu…[Read more]
Open access, open source, open to all
Hi Faith,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Yes, there are different motives for engaging in purely academic work versus public humanities work. Public humanists engage with other public humanists and the public, who are choosing to volunteer their time towards learning from and/or participating within humanities work as a means of pure…[Read more]
Hi Faith,
I agree with your definition of public humanities and it actually helped me elaborate on my own definition. Apart of public humanities is the ability to collaborate and incorporate various of similar ideas together. You stated that public humanities bring technology, the public, and the humanities together and I agree because I view…[Read more]