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Hannah Jacobs started the topic CFP: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoWhat does it take to create a digital research project or assignment? The editors of Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook seek case study & assignment submissions to help answer this question. Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (https://handbook.pubpub.org/) is an open online…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Child Protection Policy Awareness of Teachers and Responsiveness of the School: Their Relationship and Implications in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn every institution in the country, there are countless stories of children being bullied, abused, or maltreated. This can happen inside a school or outside its premises. A child protection policy is a must to protect these children. This study assesses the child protection policy awareness of teachers and the responsiveness of the schools. It…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited HUMAN AND VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY RELATION: A POSTPHENOMELOGICAL ANALYSIS in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I shall examine VR technology so as to ascertain the kind of human-technology relations therein. This will be done using the framework provided by Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek (who are currently seen as postphenomenologists). My choice of VR technology, as an instantiation of technological advancement, is due to its impact on…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited THE QUESTION OF RATIONALITY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AND THE CHALLENGE OF COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDuring comparative discourse, some scholars have ridiculed African indigenous concepts, phenomena, beliefs, and worldview in a forceful attempt to allow it to fit into western framework and to avoid the charge of irrationality. It is against this background this essay attempt to establish the basis for the rationality of discourse within the…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited FACTS AGAINST SPECULATIONS: UNDERSTANDING PATRICIA CHURCHLAND’S NEUROPHILOSOPHY in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis essay focuses on Patricia Churchland contribution to this interdisciplinary approach towards gaining a holistic understanding of our human nature and realities surrounding us, with specific reference to the perceived framework needed for the development of a unified theory of the mind-brain. A critical engagement with Churchland’s ideas s…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited THE QUESTION CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND RATIONALITY: KITCHER’S RESPONSE in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPhilip Kitcher is one of the most influential philosophers of science of the past two decades. In “The Advancement of Science (1993)”, he endeavor to probe the notions of progress and rationality in science. His position, in line with his teacher, Thomas Kuhn, was a critique of what he called ‘a legendary view of science’. Thus, he gave new int…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF KARL MARX’S MATERIALISTIC INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis paper is a critical appraisal of Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism and a deployment of its emphasis on economic factor in addressing Nigeria’s socio-economic situation. As we applaud Marx’s materialistic approach to history as an account that is rich enough to promote contextual understanding of past events in various part of the w…[Read more]
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John J. Taormina deposited A Digital Humanities Bibliography in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAn extensive Digital Humanities bibliography with over 1,500 citations covering a variety of disciplines and topics.
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Katja Thieme deposited Surface and Depth: Metalanguage and Professional Development in Canadian Writing Studies in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoIn the process of mentoring instructors of writing into the field of writing studies, there is a tension between practical surface of writing instruction and underlying theoretical depth. This paper calls for more systematic thinking about that tension between surface and depth. It emphasizes the important roles that metalanguage plays in…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited ILLICIT DRUG USE AND TRADE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF KUMASE (2000–2018) in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe illegal drug trade is a world phenomenon, which has had some adverse
impact on societies. Significantly, the impact is damning in developing economies in
Africa and Ghana in particular. This paper therefore seeks to address the causes and
effects of the use and peddle of these illegal drugs in three communities in the capital
city of the…[Read more] -
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 6 in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural
diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond
the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its
characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more] -
John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Management Program Compliance and Problems Encountered in Two Provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDisaster management is one area in the field that comes with a heavy burden of administrative functions and compliances. Thus, it is vital to consider among managers to put the best man in the field. The purpose of this study is to find out the disaster management program compliance of participants in two provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines.…[Read more]
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Maximilian Kaiser deposited Künstlerbiographien und historische Netzwerkforschung: Anwendungsbeispiele aus dem Bereich der digitalen Kunstgeschichte in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agobook chapter about artists’ biographies and networks
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Ethical Life: Its Ethical and Social Histories Reading Religion September 2020 in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIs ethics innate to human nature? In Ethical Life Webb Keane tries to answer this question on the basis of empirical research. He attempts this through an analysis of natural and social histories—that is, the analyses of naturalistic research like “neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, developmental psychology, and biological ant…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 1 in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Effect of Performance Review and Faculty Development to Organizational Climate in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoFaculty performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate are an essential element of the educational institution. More importantly, the mentioned variables have certain connections and interplay with each other. This study describes the performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate of a tertiary education…[Read more]
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Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La fotografía en la obra de Gustavo Doré durante su viaje a España in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoGustavo Doré is considered one of the great universal illustrators. Throughout his life he made a very extensive work highlighting especially the work done to illustrate the Bible, the Quixote and the Divine Comedy. In 1862 he embarked on a trip through Spain accompanied by hispanist Charles Davillier.…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited Towards an African Indigenous Model of Communication for Software Development in Digital Humanities in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDrawing insight from Toyin Falola’s call for African scholars to Africanize knowledge, this paper is an attempt to Africanize digital technological tools being used for research in African studies. Our aim is to address the challenges confronting scholars in African Studies, especially across the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, in their d…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited Digital Humanities Scholarship in Africa: Prospects and Challenges in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis research addresses the issues surrounding the low level of Digital Humanities (DH) technological consciousness among students and academics in the humanities discipline in Africa (Nigeria). The study, using online questionnaires, shows that despite the wide acceptance of DH Technological tools among some African scholars in the humanities,…[Read more]
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