I found this post to be really interesting and thoughtful. The ideas you pointed made me think about the different ways in which people in the academy construct their projects and how it creates different ways of seeing, an action that many people think is monolithic in nature. It’s not just a question of how a person will see something, but the w…[Read more]

I really like the points you bring up here. I have to admit that when it came to Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, I was playing around with the tech rather than actually absorbing the information. It makes me wonder about at what point are digital humanities scholars prioritizing the visuals over the information, and I also ask whether prioritizing…[Read more]

The article you shared in your post was extremely fascinating, and not something we had at all considered in class this week. First off, it was interesting that they began the article referencing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though they don’t focus on her for the rest of the piece. It sort of brought back that question of the relationship between p…[Read more]

I am really glad you have brought up Sherratt’s article because of the fact that we didn’t have a lot of time to examine it. I thought his piece was really fascinating because it melded the digital side of things with the humanities side. So far in class, I have been trying to bridge the gap between the two and see them in tandem. We have on one…[Read more]

I think this is an extremely important question to ask, especially when we consider where we are when thinking about these ideas. We are in this highly privileged institution which places importance and worth on different things. Seeing what a university such as Penn chooses to archive influences what society perceives as worthy to some degree.…[Read more]

I really like the ideas that you bring up in your post. Although we have only just started the semester, I think we are all starting to realize the anxiety and worry that comes along with discussing most of these subjects. The technological world is so fast paced and ever evolving that even if we did learn how to protect our own information, there…[Read more]